Aziz Al-Azmeh | |
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عزيز العظمة | |
| Born | (1947-07-24)July 24, 1947 (age 77) |
| Occupation(s) | Academic, author, educator |
| Awards | 1993: The Republican Order of Merit |
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| Main interests | Islamic culture,Islamic history |
| Notable works | Islams and Modernities |
Aziz Al-Azmeh (Arabic: عزيز العظمة; born July 24, 1947) is aSyrian academic and professor at the Department of History,Central European University,Vienna,Austria. Among other books and papers, he publishedIslams and Modernities. In May 1993, he received the Republican Order of Merit, for services to Arab culture, from former President of Tunisia,Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.[1]
Aziz Al-Azmeh was born on July 24, 1947, inDamascus,Syria. He received aD.Phil. inOriental Studies fromSt Antony's College, Oxford (supervised byAlbert Hourani), having previously attended theUniversity of Tübingen, and theUniversity of Pennsylvania.[2]
He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses (though latterly focusing on postgraduate teaching and research) across the whole thematic range of Arab and Islamic historical studies, medieval and modern, at theCentral European University, theAmerican University of Beirut,Yale University,Columbia University, theUniversity of Exeter,Cornell University, theUniversity of Oxford, theUniversity of California, Berkeley (where he was the Sultan Visiting Professor),Georgetown University, and more recently at theInstitute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations of theAga Khan University.[3]
He has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including theMedieval History Journal[2] and theJournal of Arabic and Islamic Studies.[citation needed] In addition, Al-Azmeh has been invited to various international conferences, talks, seminars, lectures and symposia.[2]
His bookIslams and Modernities was released on October 17, 1996. The book explores the history of interaction betweenIslam andEurope, analyzing myths about those interactions created byOrientalist andIslamist viewpoints.[4] A new version was released on August 7, 2009, also examining "the discourse surrounding Islamism and irrationalism after 9/11."The Guardian wrote that "Islams and Modernities raises urgent questions that are central to the concerns of the contemporary world.”[5]New Statesman wrote that “Aziz Al-Azmeh is perhaps the most original thinker on these themes in Britain today."[5]
In 2002 he became a professor at theCentral European University inBudapest. In 2010, he was then a visiting research fellow at the university in the School of History and Interdisciplinary Historical Studies.[3]
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