Ahmad Milad Karimi


Ahmad Milad Karimi is an Afghan-born German philosopher of religion, scholar of Islam, translator of the Koran, and poet. Karimi is professor of Islamic Philosophy at the University of Münster.

Early life

Ahmad Milad Karimi was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1979. He and his family fled the Afghan civil war when he was 13.

Career

From 2001 to 2011 Karimi was a Fellow of the German National Academic Foundation as an undergraduate and Doctoral candidate. Karimi studied philosophy and Islamic studies from 2000 to 2006 at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg and at Delhi University in India. In 2012, Karimi was promoted to D.Phil with a thesis on the work of Georg Hegel and Heidegger. In 2009, Karimi produced a new poetical-translation of the Koran Since summer 2016, Karimi has been a regular professor for Kalām, Islamic Philosophy und Mysticism at the University of Münster.

Reception

For his diversity and his "rise from refugee to professor", Karimi is described as "Germany's most dynamic philosophers of religion", "one of the most prominent Islamic scholars in Europe", and one of the "distinctive heads of Islam in Germany". For his work dedication as the "most extraordinary" book of 2015 in the field of Islamic studies in the German-speaking world, Karimi received the Rumi Award for Islamic Studies for his work "Hingabe. Grundfragen der systematisch-islamischen Theologie".

Personal life

Karimi is married and has a son and a daughter.