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Lejla Demiri is Chair of Islamic Doctrine at the Center for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen. Her research interests include the history of Islamic theology, Islam and religious pluralism, Christian-Muslim theological interactions, Ottoman intellectual history, and Islamic manuscripts. She holds a B.A. and M.A. from Marmara University (Istanbul), licentiate degree and postgraduate diploma from the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome), and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. She held postdoctoral fellowships at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (2007–2010) and the Free University of Berlin (2010-2012). She is the author of Muslim Exegesis of the Bible in Medieval Cairo (2013). She also serves as team leader (Middle East and North Africa) and section editor (Turkish world) for the CMR1900 project: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History (1500–1900) (2012–present) and publishes extensively on theological and interfaith matters.