Aziz al-Azmeh
| Aziz Al-Azmeh | |
|---|---|
| Native name | عزيز العظمة |
| Born |
July 24, 1947 Damascus, Syria |
| Occupation | Academic, author, educator |
| Awards | 1993: The Republican Order of Merit |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | Islamic culture, Islamic history |
| Notable works | Islams and Modernities |
Aziz Al-Azmeh (Arabic: عزيز العظمة) (born July 24, 1947) is a Syrian academic and professor at the Department of History, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Among other books and papers, he published Islams and Modernities. In May 1993, he received the The Republican Order of Merit, for services to Arab culture, from former President of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
Aziz Al-Azmeh was born on July 24, 1947 in Damascus, Syria. He received a D.Phil. in Oriental Studies from St Anthony's College, University of Oxford (supervised by Albert Hourani), having previously attended the University of Tübingen, and the University of Pennsylvania.
He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses (though latterly focusing on postgraduate teaching and research) across the whole thematic range of Arab and Islamic historical studies, medieval and modern, at the Central European University, the American University of Beirut, Yale University, Columbia University, the University of Exeter, Cornell University, the University of Oxford, the University of California, Berkeley (where he was the Sultan Visiting Professor), Georgetown University, and more recently at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations of the Aga Khan University.
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