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Peter Tarras
Peter Tarras studied Philosophy, Islamic Studies, and Near and Middle Eastern Studies in Kiel, Munich and Sheffield. His doctoral research was focused on the 10th-century CE Muslim philosopher al-Fārābī and his notion of evil. Peter is currently a research assistant in the ERC project MAJLIS: The Transformation of Jewish Literature in Arabic in the Islamicate World. Previously, he has worked for the Arabic and Latin Glossary (Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg). In Munich, Peter taught courses on different aspects of Middle Eastern Judaism, including Jewish philosophy in Hebrew and Arabic, Jewish manuscript culture, as well as Aramaic language courses. His areas of interest include intellectual history in the Near and Middle East, book history, manuscript studies, provenance research, and science communication. Since 2023, he is running the blog and resource site Membra Dispersa Sinaitica which is dedicated to the dislocated manuscripts of St Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai, Egypt.
Peter Tarras is member of the Munich Research Center for Jewish-Arabic Cultures. For further information consult the profile on the website.
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