Georges Tamer
Prof. Dr. Georges Tamer
Bavarian Research Centre for Interreligious Discourses
Bismarckstraße 1
91054 Erlangen
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-22447
- Fax number: +49 9131 85-26022
- Email: georges.tamer@fau.de
- Website: https://www.orientalistik.phil.fau.de/
Office hours
By arrangement
Biography
Georges Tamer studied philosophy, sociology, theology and classical philology. He completed his doctorate in philosophy at the Freie University of Berlin in 2000 and his habilitation in Islamic Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 2007. After working as an Arabic lecturer, a visiting professorship and a longer academic stay abroad, the Lebanese-born professor has held the Chair of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg since October 2012. In 2016, he founded the research center Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses, which was replaced by the Bavarian Research Centre for Interreligious Discourses in October 2020. His research interests include Arab-Islamic intellectual history, Arabic philosophy and literature as well as interreligious discourses between Judaism, Christianity and Islam.