Nora K. Schmid is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen (SFB 1391). She has studied Arabic and French languages and literatures at Freie Universität Berlin and at the INALCO in Paris. She has held research positions in the Corpus Coranicum project (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 2007-2012), in the SFB 980 (Freie Universität Berlin, 2012-2018), and in the project “Qur’anic Commentary: An Integrative Paradigm” (University of Oxford, 2019-2022). In 2016, she was a Global Humanities Junior Fellow at Harvard University. In 2022/23, she was Acting Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Hamburg and in 2023/24 Departmental Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies). Nora K. Schmid’s research interests include the Qur’an, premodern Islamic religious and intellectual culture and history (e.g., asceticism), premodern Arabic literature (notably poetry and sermons), the intellectual and literary traditions of pre-Islamic Arabia, and Islamic law.
