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Direktor (Kommissarische Institutsleitung)
Stefan Leder, Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Martin-Luther-University in Halle/Germany since 1993, has published books and articles covering various fields of Arabic literature and scriptural tradition, such as tradition building in narrative historiography especially concerning the formative period of Islamic history, transmission of knowledge in pre-modern Arabic culture, discourse and politics of religious authority in pre-modern Islamic societies. He was chairman of the Collaborative Research Centre “Difference and Integration” dealing with nomadsedentary interrelations in past and presence till 2007 and Director of a multidisciplinary research centre of Asian Studies at his university. He has also done research in the image of Islam in European Oriental Studies and literature.
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1993- Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Institut für Orientalistik, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
1990-1993 Fellow of Heisenberg-Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
1993 Associate Professor of Oriental Studies, Frankfurt
1991-1992 Research/Field work at Damascus, Academy of Arabic Language
1984-1990 Assistent Professor (Wissenschaftlicher Assistent) at Universität Frankfurt
1989 Habilitation [Dr. phil. habil.] Oriental Studies, Universität Frankfurt
1982-1984 Research Assistent at Orient-Institut der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft at Beirut and Amman
1978-1982 Fellow of Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes; Research Fellow at the research-centre „Byzantinische Rechtsgeschichte“
1982 Dr. phil. (major: Oriental Studies)
1975-1978 Undergraduate, graduate studies of Oriental Philology, German Literature, Universität Frankfurt, 1978 M. A
1974-1975 Study of Arabic, Language teacher at Institut Bourguiba, Tunesia
1972-1974 Undergraduate studies of German Literature, Comparative Literature, Islamic Studies at the University of Mainz
Memberships, Scholarships, Fellowships, Honours, Responsibilities
• President of the German Oriental Society (2003 - )
• Spokesman of the Collaborative Research Centre 586, Difference and Integration – The interrelations of nomadic and sedentary modes of life (2001 - 2007)
• Director of the Interdisciplinary Centre of Oriental Studies, University Halle (1999 - 2007)
• Reviewer (elected) of the DFG (1996-2000)
• Member of the Academic Senate (1998-2000)
• Vice-Dean of the department Kunst-, Orient- und Altertumswissenschaften, Philosophische Fakultät (1996-98)
• Fellow, Heisenberg-Stipendium (1990-93)
• Fellow, Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes 1978-1982
