Lejla Demiri

Lejla Demiri is a scholar of Islamic theology, religious pluralism, and interfaith dialogue. Her academic formation spans several prestigious institutions: she earned her BA and MA from Marmara University, a licentiate degree and postgraduate diploma from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. From 2007 to 2010 she served as a Research Fellow at Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, where she also taught courses on religious pluralism and interfaith dialogue at the Cambridge Muslim College. In 2010-11 she held a competitive postdoctoral fellowship with the 'Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe' project, a collaboration supported by the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. Her research focuses on Muslim and Christian understandings of the religious other as expressed in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish theological writings. A major research project she has undertaken examines the thought of 'Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi (1641-1731) on Christianity and Christian theology.