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Mehmet Karabela is an internationally recognized author and scholar
Mehmet Karabela is a scholar of Islamic intellectual history. He is the author of Islamic Thought Through Protestant Eyes (2021), a study of post-Reformation German Lutheran scholars' engagement with Islamic philosophy, theology and the Sunni-Shi’a schism, which was a finalist for the Reformation Book Award. His book, Mustafa Sabri Efendi, is a study of the life and writings of Mustafa Sabri Efendi (d.1954), the chief jurist of the Ottoman Empire, and was published in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country.
Dr. Karabela holds a Ph.D. from McGill University and currently serves as the Interim Associate Director of the Humanities Center at the University of Rochester, New York. He has taught courses on world religions, Islam in the modern world, religion and democracy, political theology, religion and politics in the Middle East as well as advanced seminars such as the European perception of Jews and Muslims during the Enlightenment, convivencia in medieval Spain and multiculturalism in the Ottoman Empire.
In collaboration with international partners, Karabela also produces contemporary dance and music for stage performances.
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