Gudrun Krämer

Gudrun Krämer is Professor Emerita of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, where she taught from 1996 and directed the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies from 2007 to 2018. Prof. Krämer is a member of the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and associated member of the Tunisian Academy of the Arts and Humanities, a member of the German National Research Council and executive editor of the Encyclopaedia of Islam Three. She has been a visiting scholar in Beijing, Beirut, Bologna, Cairo, Delhi, Erfurt, Jakarta, Paris, and most recently Salzburg. Her research focuses on the history of the Near East and North Africa since 1800, Islam, modernity and secularity, Islamic movements, and non-Muslims under Islamic rule.