Prof. Dr. Sadeq Al-Azm

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Emeritus Professor of Modern European Philosophy, Damascus University; Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize, University of Tübingen (2004); Erasmus Prize, Holland (2004); Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Hamburg (2005).
Former positions: Visiting Professor, Princeton University; Antwerp University; American University Beirut; Humboldt University Berlin; University of Hamburg; Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin; Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington D.C.; Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, Wassenaar; Editor, Arab Studies Review.
Selected writings: Islamic Fundamentalism Reconsidered (1997); Salman Rushdie and the Truth of Literature (1992); Materialism and History: A Defence (1990, Arab.); Critique of Religious Thought (1969, Arab.); Self-Criticism After the Defeat (1968, Arab.).