About ALEA

Arabische Literatur und Rhetorik Elfhundert bis Achtzehnhundert

(Arabic Literature and Rhetoric Elevenhundred to Eighteenhundred)

2014 ALEA was founded as a Leibniz Award Research Group thanks to funds from the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award recieved by Prof. Dr. Thomas Bauer in 2013.

2020 The German Research Council (Deutsch Forschungsgemeinschaft) granted the Long Term Project "Complete Edition of Ibn Nubāta al-Miṣrī's Works" that will continue until 2032.  

 

Awards

Prof. Dr. Bauer recieved aside from the Leibniz-Award for his book "A Culture of Ambiguity: An Alternative History of Islam" the following awards: the Tractatus Award from the Philosophicum Lech for his essay  „Die Vereindeutigung der Welt. Über den Verlust an Mehrdeutigkeit und Vielfalt“ published in 2018 as well as the award "WISSEN! Sachbuchpreis" for his book "Warum es kein islamisches Mittelalter gab: Das Erbe der Antike und der Orient".