Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Rüdiger Lohlker

Member of the Centre's Council

Academic position:

Director of Islamical Studies, Department of Oriental Studies, Vienna

Career:

1997: Habilitation in Göttingen
1987-90: Doctorate at the Universities Göttingen and Kairo in Islamical Studies, Iranian Studies and Political Studies
1981-87: M.A. of Islamical Studies, Iranian Studies, Political Studies and Studies of Communication
1979-81: Studies of Law

Employments:

1998-2003: Researcher and lector of Arabian Studies in Göttingen
1999-2000: Professor of Islamical Studies, Göttingen
1999: Professor of Islamical Studies, Kiel
1997-98: Assistant at the university libraries Göttingen and Rabat
1994-95: Assistant professor of Arabian Studies in Göttingen
1993-05: Post-doc scholarship of Deutsche Forschungsstiftung
1992: Assistant professor of Oriental Studies in Giessen

Other activities:

Advisor of Austrian ministries and European committees
Co-editor of the journal Wiener Zeitschrift für Kunde des Morgenlandes
Editor of Cyberorient
Member of the Kommission für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Member of: Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient, Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, EURAMES, GAIR, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Religionswissenschaft, Society for the Medieval Mediterranean

Selective bibliography:

Das islamische Recht im Wandel. Rib?, Zins und Wucher in Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Münster/Berlin/New York 1999 (Islamic Law and Change. Riba, Interest and Usury - Past and Present)

Islamisches Völkerrecht. Studien am Beispiel Granada. Bremen 2006 (Islamic International Law. The Example of Granada)

Islam. Eine Ideengeschichte. Wien 2008 (UTB) (Islam. A History of Ideas)

Gedanken über eine europäische Religion, in: Ruth Heidrich-Blaha/Michael Ley/Rüdiger Lohlker (Hg.): Islam in Europa. Wien 2007 (Favorita Papers 01/2007), S.38-48 (Thoughts about an European religion)

 

Research in connection with RaT:

Research project 2014: Salafismus - eine neue religiöse Bewegung im islamischen Kontext
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Research project 2014: Jihadism on the Virtual Battlefield: Syria and Iraq as a new Paradigm
(FWF)
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Quranic Hermeneutics on the Web, International network, Rüdiger Lohlker: Der Koran im Internet. (Hypertextdokument; www.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ebene_1/orient/koran1.htm) 2004

Research project: Jihadism Online (FWF)


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