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• Catharina Rachik

  Catharina Rachik is currently research associate at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) where she coordinates the book-series “Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourse”. Before she joined the Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses, she has been research associate and coordinator in the Center for Islamic Theology at the University of Münster. She received her M.A. in Islamic Studies from the University of Münster and is writing her dissertation on Moses in the Qurʾān. Her research focuses on Qurʾānic Studies and Tafsīr (classical and modern), the Qurʾān in Late Antiquity, as well as on the field of Islamic art. Her publications include “Der Exodus im Qurʾān,” in: Carolin Neuber (ed.), Der immer neue Exodus, Stuttgart, 2018.

  and Georges Tamer

  Georges Tamer holds the Chair of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies and is founding director of the Bavarian Research Center for Interreligious Discourses at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Free University Berlin in 2000 and completed his habilitation in Islamic Studies in Erlangen in 2007. His research focuses on Qurʾānic hermeneutics, philosophy in the Islamic world, Arabic literature and interreligious discourses. His publications include: Zeit und Gott: Hellenistische Zeitvorstellungen in der altarabischen Dichtung und im Koran, 2008; Hermeneutical Crossroads: Understanding Scripture in Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the Pre-Modern Orient (2017), Islamic Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity (2024), Handbook of Qurʾānic Hermeneutics, 7 volumes (2023–).171