Aziz al-Azmeh

1947 -

Country of citizenship: Syria

Languages spoken, written or signed: Arabic, English

Educated at: University of Tübingen, University of Pennsylvania, St Antony's College

Occupation: historian, Islamicist, orientalist, university teacher

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Aziz Al-Azmeh (Arabic: عزيز العظمة; born July 24, 1947) is a Syrian academic and Professor Emeritus at the Department of History, Central European University, Vienna, Austria. Among other books and papers, he published Islams and Modernities. In May 1993, he received the Republican Order of Merit, for services to Arab culture, from former President of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Source: Wikipedia (en)