Prof. Ahmad Milad Karimi, born in Kabul in 1979, studied philosophy and Islamic studies at the Universität Freiburg im Breisgau and received his doctorate in 2012 with a thesis on Hegel and Heidegger. He is a full professor of Kalām, Islamic philosophy and mysticism at the Universität Münster. Karimi is deputy director of the Zentrum für Islamische Theologie at the Universität Münster and director of the international Muhammad Iqbal Research Centre. In 2019, he received the Voltaire Prize for “Toleranz, Völkerverständigung und Respekt vor Differenz” from the University of Potsdam.
