Katajun Amirpur
Islamic scholar
Katajun Amirpur's Degrees
- PhD Islamic Studies University of Hamburg
- Masters Islamic Studies University of Hamburg
- Bachelors Islamic Studies University of Hamburg
Why Is Katajun Amirpur Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Katajun Amirpur is a German-Iranian professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Cologne. Biography Amirpur graduated in Iranian Studies at the University of Bonn. She subsequently taught at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Bamberg and the University of Bonn. In 2000, she was awarded her doctorate by the University of Bamberg on the Shiite exegesis of the Qur'an with a thesis on the "Thought and Influence of Abdolkarim Soroush in the Islamic Republic of Iran". In February 2010, she was appointed Assistant Professor for Modern Islamic World with a focus on Iran by the university board of the University of Zurich. In June 2011, she was appointed Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Hamburg. She is one of the editors of the magazine Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik. Her father, Manutschehr Amirpur, was an Iranian cultural attaché under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Her mother is German.
Katajun Amirpur's Published Works
Published Works
- The Expansion of the Prophetic Experience: 'Abdolkarīm Sorūš's New Approach to Qur'ānic Revelation (2011) (10)
- Democracy in Iran. History and the Quest for Liberty (2011) (6)
- Iran’s Policy towards Jewish Iranians and the State of Israel. Is the Present Iranian State Islamofascist? (2012) (5)
- A Doctrine in the Making? Velāyat-e faqīh in Post-Revolutionary Iran (2014) (4)
- The Changing Approach to the Text: Iranian scholars and the Quran (2005) (3)
- Iran's regional and strategic interests (2006) (2)
- Women’s problems as a ‘women’s only’ problem? Debates on gender and democracy in Iran (2013) (2)
- Constructing and Deconstructing Othering: Polycentrism versus Westoxication in Iran (2017) (2)
- Iranian Godfathers of Islamic Socialism – “It Is the Marxists Who Have Learned It from Islam” (2018) (1)
- “La ikraha fi’l-din – There Is No Compulsion in Religion” – Or Is There? (2016) (1)
- The MENA Region: Climate, Culture, and Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa (2021) (1)
- The Role of Social Media in Democratisation Processes: An Iranian Case Study (2018) (0)
- Middle East and North Africa (2018) (0)
- Review of: OLIAEI, Shadi: L’art du conteur dans les cafés traditionnels en Iran. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2010. (2012) (0)
- Book review: Naji, Kasra: Ahmadinejad: The secret history of Iran’s radical leader. London: I. B. Tauris, 2008, ISBN 978-1-8451-1636-1 (2010) (0)
- Gender in the Iranian Constitution (2018) (0)
- In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran, Christopher de Bellaigue, New York: HarperCollins, 2005, ISBN 0–060–93536–7, 283 pp. (2008) (0)
- #ItsMensTurn: Of Hashtags and Shīʿī Discourses in Iran (2018) (0)
- Taking Stock of a Quarter Century of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Wilfried Buchta, Cambridge, MA: Occasional Publications 5, Islamic Legal Studies Program, Harvard Law School, 2005, ISBN 0–880–8605–6, 53 pp. (2008) (0)
- Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran's Radical Leader (2010) (0)
- Ayatollah Khomeini and the Anatomy of the Iranian Revolution: Toward a Theory of Prophetic Charisma (2018) (0)
- Buddhism and Dialog: On Zen and the West (2014) (0)
- Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope, Ebadi Shirin, New York: Random House, 2006, ISBN 1-4000-6470-8, 232 pp. (2008) (0)
- Sasan Tavassoli, Christian Encounters with Iran: Engaging Muslim Thinkers after the Revolution (London: I. B. Tauris, 2011). Pp. 305. $96.00 cloth. (2012) (0)
- Islam and democracy (2020) (0)
- 2.07 Moḥammad Ḥoseyn Na ʾīnī: Government from the Perspective of Islam (Iran, 1909) (2016) (0)
- Iran's Intellectual Revolution (2011) (0)
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