Aziz Al-Azmeh

Prof Aziz Al-azmeh received a D.Phil. in oriental studies from the university of oxford having previously attended university in Beirut and Tübingen. He has been a long-term fellow at the institute for advanced study, Berlin, and fellow of the Swedish collegium for advanced study and the collegium Budapest and was resident scholar at the Rockefeller foundation center for scholars in Bellagio. He is presently CEU university professor in the department of history at the Central European University, which he joined in 2012. He has been visiting professor at Yale University, Columbia University, the University of California, Berkeley, Georgetown University, and more recently at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations of the Aga Khan University (London) and Sciencespo Paris. He is the author of, among other things, Islams and Modernities, and his latest book in English is the emergence of Islam in late antiquity (Cambridge University Press).