Gudrun Krämer

About Gudrun Krämer

Gudrun Krämer is Professor Emerita of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, where she taught from 1996 to 2019 and directed the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies from 2007 to 2018. She is currently (2024/5) a guest professor at the University of Vienna. She is also a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and executive editor of the "Encyclopedia of Islam Three". Her research focuses on the history of the Near East and North Africa since 1800, Islam, modernity, and secularity, Islamism, and non-Muslims under Islamic rule. In 2006, she was awarded an honory doctorate from Tashkent Islamic University, Uzbekistan, and in 2010, she received the Gerda Henkel Prize for her achievements in historical humanities.