Katajun Amirpur

Katajun Amirpur (German: [kataːˈjuːn amiːɐ̯ˈpuːɐ̯]; Persian: کتایون امیرپور [kætɒːˈjuːn ɛ æmiːɾˈpuːɾ]; born 1971) is a German-Iranian professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Cologne.

In 2000, she was awarded her doctorate by the University of Bamberg on the Shiite exegesis of the Qur'an with a thesis on the "Thought and Influence of Abdolkarim Soroush in the Islamic Republic of Iran".

This arose from a statement by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad which he made at the Tehran conference "A World without Zionism" on 26 October 2005, which had reportedly been mistranslated by the "big western news agencies".

The Islamic scholar Mariella Ourghi accused her in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of "splitting hairs" since there was no change to the "meaning and purpose " of the sentence.

[10] Benjamin Weinthal wrote in the Jerusalem Post that German critics of the Iranian regime have accused Amirpur of downplaying the threat faced by Israel and the West from Iran.