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Biography
Ahmad Milad Karimi (born February 10, 1979) is a German philosopher of religion, scholar of Islam, translator of the Koran and Poet. Karimi is professor of Islamic Philosophy at the University of Münster. For his diversity and his "rise from refugee to professor" (ZDF), Karimi is described as "Germany's most dynamic philosophers of religion" (Qantara), "one of the most prominent Islamic scholars in Europe" (ORF), and one of the "distinctive heads of Islam in Germany" (Deutschlandradio). 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"..
Life
Ahmad Milad Karimi was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1979. He and his family fled the civil war in Afghanistan when he was 13. He is married and has a son and a daughter. His autobiography is published under the title "Osama bin Laden sleeps with the fishes. Why I like to be a Muslim and why Marlon Brando has a lot to do with it".
Career
From 2001 to 2011 was Karimi Fellow of the German National Academic Foundation as an undergraduate and PhD candidate; Karimi studied philosophy and Islamic studies from 2000 to 2006 at the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg and at Delhi University in India. He obtained his PhD in 2012, with a thesis on Hegel and Heidegger. In 2009, Karimi has produced a new poetical-translation of the Koran. His main concern is to break down the foreignness of Islam. He is since summer semester 2016 regular professor for Kalām, Islamic Philosophy und Mysticism at the University of Münster. He regularly publishes articles, literary reviews and Essays, especially in Deutschlandradio, Deutschlandfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk.