Nora K. Schmid

Nominating Committee

https://www.orinst.ox.ac.uk/people/nora-schmid

Nora K. Schmid is a postdoctoral researcher in the project “Qurʾanic Commentary: An Integrative Paradigm” (QuCIP) at the University of Oxford. She holds a Ph.D. in Arabic Studies from the Free University of Berlin (2018). Her research interests include the Qurʾan as a late antique text, Arabic asceticism, early Islamic poetry, and the intellectual and literary traditions of pre-Islamic Arabia. She is a co-editor of the volume Denkraum Spätantike: Reflexionen von Antiken im Umfeld des Koran.