Gudrun Kramer

Gudrun Kramer (also rendered Gudrun Kramer) is professor of Islamic studies at the Free University Berlin and a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences. A leading European scholar of Islamic history and the modern Middle East, her books include A History of Islam and The Jews in Modern Egypt. She authored and served as translator (from German) of A History of Palestine: From the Ottoman Conquest to the Founding of the State of Israel, a scholarly examination of Palestinian society and politics across more than four centuries, from Ottoman rule through the British Mandate period and the establishment of the State of Israel.