Myths, Historical Archetypes and Symbolic Figures in Arabic Literature: Towards a new Hermeneutic Approach. Proceedings of the International Symposium ... June 30th, 1996

by Angelika Neuwirth, Birgit Embalo (Editor), Sebastian G|nther (Editor)

640 pages, Paperback

Published December 31, 1999

About the author

Angelika Neuwirth is a professor of Qur'ānic studies at the Free University of Berlin. She studied Islamic studies, semantic studies and classical philology at the Universities of Berlin, Tehran, Göttingen, Jerusalem, and Munich.

Between 1994 and 1999 she was the director of the German Institute of Oriental Studies. She was awarded the Sigmund Freud prize for her research on the Qur'ān.