Gudrun Krämer

[1][2] She is professor of Islamic studies, Chair of the Institute of Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin and a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

She earned her doctorate from the University of Hamburg in 1982, with her dissertation focusing on the History of the Jews in Egypt.

She spent some time as a researcher for the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and a lecturer at the University of Bonn.

[2] Kramer is noted as an analyst of Islamism from both a theological and textual standpoint, examining both the theoretical and practical implications of political Islam.

[5] In 2010, she was the first Islamic studies scholar to earn the International Research Prize from the Gerda Henkel Foundation due to the influence of her historical and cultural research on Muslims and its potential to explain current events.