Georges Nicolas Tamer holds the Chair of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
[3][4] Infected by polio as an infant in Lebanon, Tamer was unable to attend elementary school and relied on autodidactic learning and private tutoring.
After attending high school in Lebanon for one year, Tamer moved to Germany where he studied philosophy, sociology and theology in Frankfurt inter alios with Jürgen Habermas.
These include the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton[5] and the Working Group on Modernity and Islam at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.
He has planned and hosted interdisciplinary conferences on Maimonides, humor in Arabic culture, migration in Germany, and, most recently, on the influential Muslim thinker al-Ghazali.