Angelika Neuwirth

Angelika Neuwirth

Scripture, Revelation, and Writing: The Qur’an’s Epistemic Recast of Arabian Late Antiquity

Angelika Neuwirth studied Persian Language and Literature, Oriental Studies (Arabic Language and Literature and Comparative Semitics) and Classical Philology in Berlin, Teheran, Göttingen and Munich. She received her Ph.D. in 1972 with a thesis on ʿAbd al-Laṭīf al-Baghdādī’s book Lambda on Aristotelian metaphysics (published 1976). In 1977 she received the highest academic qualification in Germany for a habilitation thesis with the title “Studien zur Komposition der mekkanischen Suren” (published 1981).