Professor Gerard Wiegers

About

Professor Gerard Wiegers has organised the workshop on the Christian Turks – Religious and Cultural Encounters in the Ottoman-Habsburg Contact Zone at the Central European University, Budapest. As a Principle Investigator he is also responsible for the individual project The Presence of Arabic Speaking Christians, Jews and Muslims in Northern Europe. This project assesses the significance of native Arabic speakers for early modern oriental scholarship in Europe.

Professor Wiegers has researched and published widely on the history of native Arabic speakers in Europe. His fields of interest are the dynamics between Judaism, Christianity and Islam in the history of Eurasia and Europ and he is a great expert in the history of Islam on the Iberian Peninsula, North Africa and Europe.