Sabine Schmidtke

Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, is a scholar of Islamic intellectual history whose pioneering research has transformed perspectives on the interrelations and connections among different strands of intellectual inquiry, across time, place, religions, and philosophical schools.

Historical Studies

A Conversation on "Scholar of Islam, Victim of the Holocaust: The Tragic Story of Hedwig Klein"

With Sabine Schmidtke and SherAli K. Tareen

Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, and SherAli K. Tareen, Patricia Crone Member (2024–25) in the School, discuss Schmidtke's latest book, which narrates the powerful and tragic story of Hedwig Klein, an exceptionally talented German Jewish scholar of Islam who was killed during the Holocaust at the age of thirty-one.

Historical Studies

A Window into Early Twentieth-Century Arabic Manuscripts Transactions

By Garrett Davidson, Rana Mikati and Sabine Schmidtke

A cooperation between the American University in Cairo (AUC) and five academic institutions, including IAS, has seen a rare archive documenting the al-Khanji family's cultural impact on early twentieth-century Cairo transferred to AUC. The archive contains particularly valuable material for Islamic manuscript studies and provenance history.

Historical Studies

Scribal Habits in Near Eastern Manuscript Traditions

Edited by Sabine Schmidtke and George A. Kiraz

Scribal Habits in Near Eastern Manuscript Traditions, edited by Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, and George Kiraz past Member and current Research Associate in the School of Historical Studies, has been published by...

Historical Studies

Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled

Edited by Sabine Schmidtke

Jewish-Muslim Intellectual History Entangled: Textual Materials from the Firkovitch Collection, Saint Petersburg, edited by Camilla Adang, Bruno Chiesa, Omar Hamdan, Wilferd Madelung, Sabine Schmidtke, and Jan Thiele, has been published by the...

Historical Studies

Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible

By Sabine Schmidtke and Camilla Adang

Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has coauthored, with Camilla Adang, Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible: Texts and Studies (Lockwood Press, 2019).

The articles brought together in this volume deal with...

Historical Studies

Islamic Manuscript Traditions

By Sabine Schmidtke

On the occasion of the spring meeting of the IAS Board of Trustees in May 2019, Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, speaks on the vast, global, and indispensable Islamic manuscript tradition, a world heritage that is...

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Materials for the Intellectual History of Imāmī Shīʿism in the Safavid Period

Prepared for publication and introduced by Sabine Schmidtke

Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has prepared for publication and introduced Materials for the Intellectual History of Imāmī Shīʿism in the Safavid Period: A Facsimile Edition of Ms New York Public Library, Arabic...

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Traditional Yemeni Scholarship amidst Political Turmoil and War

By Sabine Schmidtke

Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has authored Traditional Yemeni Scholarship amidst Political Turmoil and War: Muḥammad b. Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl b. al-Muṭahhar al-Manṣūr (1915-2016) and His Personal Library (UCOPress...

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Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, 1935–2018

Edited by Sabine Schmidtke

Sabine Schmidtke, Professor in the School of Historical Studies, has edited Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018 (Gorgias Press, 2018). The volume traces the history of Near and Middle Eastern...

Historical Studies

Persian Aesthetics in Ottoman Albums

By Emine Fetvaci

Most scholarship on Ottoman art takes the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as their focus, the glorious periods of the building of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, the well-known domed mosques of the architect Sinan, the Iznik pottery, the floral...