Zukunftsphilologie
2011/ 2012

Lejla Demiri

Abd al Ghanī al-Nābulusī''s (1641-1731) Understanding of the Religious 'Other', particularly his Views regarding Christianity and Christian Theology

Lejla Demiri holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge (2008). She received her BA (1998) and MA (2000) degrees in Islamic Theology from Marmara University, Istanbul. Demiri also studied Christian Theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas – Angelicum (2002/03) and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where she received her Post-graduate Diploma (2003) and Licentiate Degree (2004). Demiri worked as a Junior Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall, 2007–2010) and subsequently held a postdoc-fellowship (2010/11) of the Berlin-based research-program Europe in the Middle East – the Middle East in Europe (2010/11). She also taught at the University of Cambridge and the Cambridge Muslim College. Her research explores Muslim-Christian theological encounters. Since 2002, Demiri is actively involved in interfaith dialogue.

Abd al Ghanī al-Nābulusī''s (1641-1731) Understanding of the Religious 'Other', particularly his Views regarding Christianity and Christian Theology

During her Zukunftsphilologie Fellowship, she will examine Muslim perceptions of the religious “Other” in the early modern Ottoman world with a special focus on ''Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī ''s (1641-1731) writings on religious pluralism.