Ahmad Von Denffer

Ahmad Von Denffer was born in Germany in 1949 and is a German Muslim scholar and writer. He studied Islamics and Social Anthropology at the University of Mainz, where he also attended additional courses in the Department of Missiology. His academic work has focused particularly on the area of Christian-Muslim relations, and he has contributed to a number of scholarly journals. He joined the Islamic Foundation in Leicester as a Research Fellow in 1978, one of the prominent Islamic research and publishing institutions in the United Kingdom. He subsequently worked with the Islamic Centre in Munich, Germany. His published works include 'Ulum al-Qur'an: An Introduction to the Sciences of the Qur'an', which has become a widely used introductory text in English on the disciplines related to Qur'anic studies, as well as 'A Day with the Prophet' and 'Islam for Children'.