Katajun Amirpur
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Katajun Amirpur (German: [kataːˈjuːn amiːɐ̯ˈpuːɐ̯]; Persian: کتایون امیرپور [kætɒːˈjuːn ɛ æmiːɾˈpuːɾ]; born 1971) is a German-Iranian professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Cologne.
Amirpur graduated in Iranian Studies at the University of Bonn. She subsequently taught at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Bamberg and the University of Bonn. In 2000, she was awarded her doctorate by the University of Bamberg on the Shiite exegesis of the Qur'an with a thesis on the Thought and Influence of Abdolkarim Soroush in the Islamic Republic of Iran.[1] In February 2010, she was appointed Assistant Professor for Modern Islamic World with a focus on Iran by the university board of the University of Zurich. In June 2011, she was appointed Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Hamburg. She is one of the editors of the magazine Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik. Her father, Manutschehr Amirpur, was an Iranian cultural attaché under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Her mother is German.
She also writes for the Süddeutsche Zeitung, taz and Die Zeit,[2] as well as comments for the German radio stations, DLF and WDR.
Amirpur lives in Cologne. Until 2020, she was married to the orientalist Navid Kermani.[3]
