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Angelika Neuwirth

أنغيليكا نويفرت

Notable figure b. 1943 · Source: Universität Münster, Centre for Islamic Theology, report on the Neuwirth symposium (2024) · Second source: Library of Congress Name Authority File n82087086: Neuwirth, Angelika (b. 1943; prof. of Arabic Literature, Free Univ. of Berlin)

Field: Literature and poetry

Affiliation

Literary scholar; Komposition der mekkanischen Suren

Biography

She took her doctorate at Göttingen (1972) and habilitation at Munich (1977) and taught Arabic literature at the Free University of Berlin. She studied the literary composition of the Meccan suras in Studien zur Komposition der mekkanischen Suren (Berlin, 1981). In modern literature she co-wrote Kulturelle Selbstbehauptung der Palästinenser: Survey der modernen palästinensischen Dichtung (2001), edited Arabische Literatur, postmodern (2004), and with Thomas Bauer Ghazal as World Literature (2005).