Regula Forster is Professor of Islamic History and Culture (University of Tübingen)

Research interests

•     Dialogues as literary forms
•     Knowledge transfer in literature
•     Natural and occult sciences, especially alchemy
•     Mirrors for princes
•     Sirr al-asrār/Secretum secretorum
•     History of exegesis, especially tafsīr
•     Cultural contacts between East and West