Angelika Neuwirth

Angelika Neuwirth FBA
Born	(1943-11-04)4 November 1943 Nienburg
Occupation	Professor
Title	professor, doctor of philosophy
Academic background
Alma mater	Universities of Berlin, Tehran, Göttingen, Jerusalem, Munich
Academic work
Discipline	Qur’anic Studies
Sub-discipline	Order in Qur’anic Chapters

Angelika NeuwirthFBA(born 4 November 1943,Nienburg) is a GermanIslamic studiesscholar and professor ofQur’anic studiesatFreie UniversityinBerlin.

Qur’anic education

Born inNienburg, Lower Saxony,she studied Islamic studies, Semitic studies and classical philology at the Universities of Berlin, Tehran, Göttingen, Jerusalem, and Munich.

Posts held

Neuwirth is also the director of the research projectCorpus Coranicum.Between 1994 and 1999, she was the director of the German Institute of Oriental Studies in Beirut andIstanbul.She currently works as a professor inFreie Universityin Berlin and as a visiting professor at theUniversity of JordaninAmman,and her research focuses on theQur'an,its interpretations, and modern Arabic literature in the Eastern Mediterranean, especiallyPalestinianpoetry and prose related to theArab-Israeli conflict.

Awards

In 2011 she was named an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,and in 2012 was granted an honorary doctorate from Yale University's Department of Religious Studies.In June 2013, theDeutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtungawarded her itsSigmund Freud Prizefor her research on the Qur'an.In July 2018 she was elected as a Fellow of theBritish Academy.

Publications

• Neuwirth, Angelika (2007). "Orientalism in Oriental Studies? Qur'anic Studies as a Case in Point".Journal of Qur'anic Studies.9(21): 115–127.doi:10.3366/e1465359108000119.JSTOR25728259.
• Neuwirth, Angelika (2008). "Two Views of History and Human Future: Qur'anic and Biblical Renderings of Divine Promises".Journal of Qur'anic Studies.10(1): 1–20.doi:10.3366/e1465359109000217.JSTOR25728268.
• Neuwirth, Angelika (2010).Der Koran als Text der Spätantike: Ein europäischer Zugang.Berlin: Insel Verlag.ISBN978-3-458-71026-4.English translation:Neuwirth, Angelika (2019).The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage.Oxford: Oxford University Press.ISBN978-0-19-992895-8.
• Neuwirth, Angelika; Sinai, Nicolai; Marx, Michael (2010).The Quran in context: historical and literary investigations into the Quranic milieu.Leiden: Brill.ISBN978-90-04-17688-1.
• Neuwirth, Angelika (2014).Scripture, Poetry and the Making of a Community: Reading the Qur'an as a Literary Text.Oxford: OUP.ISBN978-0-19-870164-4.
• Neuwirth, Angelika (2010–2017).Der Koran. Handkommentar mit Übersetzung.Berlin: Insel Verlag.(The Qur'ān: A Hand-Commentary with German Translation.) Five volumes planned:
• Neuwirth, Angelika (2011).Band 1: Frühmekkanische Suren. Poetische Prophetie.Berlin: Insel Verlag.ISBN978-3-458-75981-2.(Volume 1: Early Meccan Suras. Poetic Prophecy)
• Neuwirth, Angelika (2017).Band 2/1: Frühmittelmekkanische Suren. Das neue Gottesvolk.Berlin: Insel Verlag.ISBN978-3-458-70039-5.(Volume 2/1: Early Middle Meccan Suras. The New People of God.)