Rate My Professor Sabine Schmidtke

Her research focuses on Islamic intellectual history, with particular emphasis on the interrelations among different strands of inquiry across time, place, religions, and philosophical schools. She has made significant contributions through the edition and critical analysis of manuscripts in Arabic, Judeo-Arabic, and Persian, and her work spans Arabic-speaking countries as well as Israel, Iran, Russia, and Turkey. Schmidtke is engaged in reconstructing the textual heritage of the post-classical period (thirteenth to nineteenth century) and has published extensively on the Muslim reception of the Bible. Among her honors are election as Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (2023), Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (2021), Correspondant étranger of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (2019), and the Humboldt Research Award (2019). She is a member of the American Philosophical Society (2017) and has received additional recognitions including the World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Schmidtke serves as Editor-in-Chief of several publications, including Arabo-Islamica, Biblia Arabica: Texts and Studies, and Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, as well as Executive Editor of the Shii Studies Review and Series Editor of Makers of the Muslim World. Her pioneering scholarship has advanced understanding of Islamic and Jewish intellectual traditions and their interconnections.