Angelika Hartmann | |
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 Angelika Hartmann (2013) | |
| Born | 3 December 1944 Kassel, Germany |
| Died | 1 July 2023 (aged 78) |
| Occupation(s) | Writer,university teacher, Islamic scholar |
Angelika Hartmann (3 December 1944 in Kassel – 1 July 2023 in Frankfurt) was a German Islamic scholar who worked as a university lecturer at several universities until her retirement in 2009 and most recently as a professor of Islamic studies and languages and Arabic language at the University of Marburg.[1]
Angelica Hartmann studied Islamic studies, German, comparative literature and philosophy at the universities of Göttingen, Hamburg and Istanbul. In 1971 she received her doctorate with distinction from the University of Hamburg on the subject of “al-Nasir” (1225–1180). Politics, religion, culture in the late Abbasid Caliphate. This work examines the history of Islam in the Middle Ages through the Caliphate and religious-political currents in Baghdad. In 1982 he completed her studies at the University of Hamburg, where Hartmann worked as a research assistant from 1971 to 1989 and as a private lecturer in Islamic studies/Arabic studies from 1982. The subject of this work was the revival of the Arabic and analytical version of the relationship between Orthodoxy and Islamic philosophy entitled: Rasef Omar Al-Sahrvardi on the advice of al-Aymaniyah and Kasf al-Fadaih al-Ayunaniyah.[2]
In 1986/1987 Hartman held the chair for Oriental Studies at Saarland University. From 1989 to 1993 she worked as a professor for Arabic and Islamic studies at the University of Würzburg and from 1990 to 1993 as a university women's representative. She was then professor of Islamic studies with a focus on Arab studies at the University of Giessen and head of the Institute for Oriental Studies until 2006. From 2006 to 2008 she was head of the Islamic Studies department at the Center for Near and Middle East Asian Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg. Her main research areas were the cultural history of Islam in the Middle Ages, Arabic and Persian mysticism, theology and concepts of power, Islamism and civil society, and educational consulting.[3]
