Andreas Görke
Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies
- Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 4177
- Email: A.Goerke@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Address
- Street
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Room 2/9
19 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LD
Background
Andreas Görke is Senior Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He received his PhD from the University of Hamburg in 2001 and his Habilitation from the University of Basel in 2010.
Before coming to Edinburgh in September 2011, he worked as a postdoctoral research assistant at the Universities of Hamburg (2001-2002), Basel (2002-2005), the Social Science Research Center Berlin (WZB) (2005-2006), and Freie Universität Berlin (2006) and as Lecturer in Islamic studies at the University of Kiel (2007-2011).
In 2009/10 he served as acting professor for early and classical Islam at the University of Hamburg.
Undergraduate teaching
- Introduction to Islam
- Elements of Islam
- The Qur'an - Islam's Holy Book
- Where History meets Mystery: Approaches to the Study of Early Islam
Postgraduate teaching
- The Qur'an - Islam's Holy Book
- Problems, Methods, and Theories in the Study of Early Islam
- Research Methods and Problems in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
- Critical Readings in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
Abdulla Haidar
Nasser Alfalasi
Dalia Abdel Moaty Hussein Ali
Georgi Obatnin
Past PhD students supervised
Marjan Asi
Ali Al Lawati
Aurangzeb Haneef
Badreldin Ismail
Simon Loynes
Tobias Anderson
I-Wen Su
Hannah Hagemann
Research summary
Dr Görke's research interests include early Islamic history and historiography, the life of the Prophet Muhammad, the Qur'an and Qur'anic exegesis, Hadith, Islamic law, the transmission of Arabic manuscripts, Islam in its Late Antique environment, the impact of modernity on Muslim thought, and Holy Places in Islam.
Themes
- Early Islamic history and historiography
- Islam and its relation to late antique cultures and religions
- The biography of Muhammad
- Hadith
- Qur'an and Qur'anic exegesis
- Methodological issues in the study of early Islam
- Holy places in Islam
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Constructing and Contesting Holy Places in Medieval Islam and Beyond
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004525320
Research output: › Anthology (Accepted/In press) -
Criteria for dating early Tafsir traditions: The exegetical traditions and variant readings of Abū Mijlaz Lāḥiq B. Humayd
In:
Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, vol. 49, pp. 275-338
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Abu 'Ubayd al-Qasim ibn Sallam
(2 pages)
Research output: › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary (Accepted/In press) -
'Urwa ibn al-Zubayr
(3 pages)
Research output: › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary (Accepted/In press) -
Musa ibn 'Uqba
(2 pages)
Research output: › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary (Accepted/In press) -
Hadith between traditional Muslim scholarship and academic approaches
(20 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Muhammad
(16 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Between history and exegesis: The origins and transformation of the story of Muḥammad and Zaynab bint Ǧaḥš
(23 pages)
In:
Arabica, vol. 65, pp. 31-63
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15700585-12341479
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Seyyed Hossein Nasr et al. (eds), The Study Quran: A New Translation and Commentary
(2 pages)
In:
Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, vol. 93
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/696034
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Book/Film/Article review (Published) -
Remnants of an old tafsīr tradition?: The exegetical accounts of Urwa b. al-Zubayr
(21 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004337121_003
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published)