CMR1900: Middle East and North Africa

Professor Lejla Demiri

Professor Lejla Demiri

CMR 1900 project
Team Leader, Middle East and North Africa
Section Editor, Turkish World

Lejla Demiri is Professor of Islamic Doctrine at the Centre for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen.

Dr Claire Norton

Dr Claire Norton

CMR 1900 project
Section Editor, Turkish World

Dr Norton is Reader in History at St Mary’s University, Twickenham.

Dr Reza Pourjavady

Dr Reza Pourjavady

CMR 1900 project
Section Editor, Persia

Dr Pourjavady is currently acting Chair for Oriental Studies at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum.  Previously he was adjunct lecturer in Iranian religion and culture at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.

Dr Umar Ryad

CMR 1900 project
Section Editor, Arab World - Muslim Sources

Dr Ryad is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies (hoogleraar Arabistiek en Islamkunde) at the Faculty of Arts of the University of KU Leuven in Belgium.  Previously he was an associate professor of Islamic Studies at Utrecht University.

Dr Carsten Walbiner

Dr Carsten Walbiner

CMR 1900 project
Section Editor, Arab World - Christian Sources

Carsten Walbiner is currently based in Jerusalem and belongs to the Research Center for the Christian Orient at the Catholic University Eichstaett, Germany.