Humanitarian Islam

Rüdiger Lohlker is professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Vienna since 2003. His fields of research are the history of Islamic ideas, Islamic law, Islam in Indonesia, Arab and Islamic world online, modern Islamic movements, and the history of sciences in the Islamic world. Katharina Ivanyi is a historian of Islam in the pre-modern and modern periods with interests in Islamic law, theology, Sufism and contemporary Islamic political thought. She received her PhD from Princeton University in 2012 and is currently Elise Richter Fellow at the Institut für Orientalistik at the University of Vienna.