Samer Rashwani is a scholar of Quranic Studies and Islamic intellectual history. His teaching and research concentrate on the trajectories of Islamic scholarship on the Quran from the early centuries of onwards; and investigate new hermeneutical approaches to the Quran. He was a lecturer at the faculty of Sharia (Universities of Damascus and Aleppo; 2007–2011), a EUME (Forum Transregionale Studien) fellow in Berlin in 2011–2013, and a post-doc at the Center of Islamic theology, University of Tübingen, since 2013. He received his BA in Islamic Sciences from Damascus University (1997), and completed his Qur’anic studies at the University of Cairo, receiving an MA in 2004 and a PhD in 2007. During his academic career, Rashwani developed a wide range of research interests and academic publications within the field of Islamic Studies, including tafsir, hermeneutics, Islamic theology, and Islamic ethics. Besides his book Manhadj al-Tafsīr al-Mawḍūʿī [The Methodology of Thematic Interpretation of the Qurʾān: a critical approach] (Aleppo 2009), Rashwani has edited several volumes in Quranic studies and modern thought.
