Gregor Schoeler

Gregor Schoeler (born 27 July 1944 in Waldshut, Germany) is an Arabist and Islamicist with German and Swiss citizenship.

In 1982, Schoeler was appointed professor at the University of Basel, where he held the Chair of Islamic Studies until his retirement in 2009, and was head of the Oriental Seminar.

In the spring of 2000, he was a visiting professor at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris,[1] and in March 2010 he was a Messenger Lecturer at Cornell University.

[2] Shawkat Toorawa, professor of Arabic literature at Yale University, praised him on this occasion as "may be the most significant scholar of early Islam".

[3] His most well known work is the collected series of lectures known as Écrire et transmettre dans les débuts de l'islam, which is available in French, English and Arabic.