Christian Lange
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies - Religious S
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Christian Lange (PhD Harvard, 2006) holds the Chair of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Utrecht. His research is on Islamic intellectual and cultural history, particularly in the areas of Islamic eschatology, Islamic law and legal theory, and Islamic mysticism. From 2011-2015, he was the principal investigator of an ERC Starting Grant project, The here and the hereafter in Islamic traditions (HHIT). From 2017-2021, he is the principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator Grant project, The senses of Islam (SENSIS).
Research Interest
philosophy
Publications
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Lange, C.R. (2008). Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination. (290 p.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Lange, C.R. (2016). Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions. (365 p.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Winner of the 2016 BKFS Bookprize..
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Lange, C.R. (2016). Locating Hell in Islamic Traditions. (369 p.). Leiden: Brill, This is an OPEN ACCESS publication..
