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• Ramy Abdin

  Ramy Abdin is a research assistant specialising in Islam at the Bavarian Research Centre for Interreligious Discourses at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. Since 2018, he has been working on his PhD, where he is examining Ṭāhā ʿAbd ar-Raḥmān’s concept of philosophical creativity. Abdin was involved in several projects, including the completion of the multi-volume Handbook of Qurʾānic Hermeneutics and the coordination of a long-term project on the normativity of the Qurʾān. He is also a lecturer in Arabic at the FAU Language Centre. His research interests are wide-ranging. They include the interaction between Islam and modern technology, the interpretation of Islamic end-times prophecies, and the role of philosophy in the Islamic world.

  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‑).