Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lejla Demiri
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Short Vita
2024
Honorary Professor at the University of St Andrews
School of Divinity, St Mary's College, 2024–2027
since November 2023
Executive Director of the Center for Islamic Theology
University of Tübingen
2019
TDhc – Honorary doctorate in Theology (Doctor Honoris Causa)
Uppsala University, Sweden
since August 2012
Professor of Islamic Doctrine at the Center for Islamic Theology
University of Tübingen
2011 - 2012
Research Fellow of "Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship"
at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School for Literary Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin
2010 - 2011
Research Fellow of EUME (Europe in the Middle East & The Middle East in Europe)
at Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, in affiliation with the Institute for Semitic and Arabic Studies, Freie Universität, Berlin
2007 - 2010
Junior Research Fellow
Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge
2004 - 2008
PhD
Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
2003 - 2004
Licentiate in Interreligious Studies
Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome
2002 - 2003
Post-graduate Diploma in Interreligious Studies
Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome
2002 - 2003
Visiting Student, Faculty of Theology
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), Rome
2000 - 2001
Completed course-work for the PhD programme in Islamic Theology (Kalām)
Marmara University, Istanbul
1998 - 2000
MA in Islamic Theology (Kalām)
Marmara University, Istanbul
1994 - 1998
BA in Theology
Marmara University, Istanbul