Christian Lange (1975) researches Islam in all its historical diversity and complexity. He is a pioneer in digital humanities, combining the study of Islamic texts with the latest insights from sociology, religious studies, philosophy, and anthropology.

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Lange considers the human embodied and imaginative experience of Islam as the most important way to understand it. His research topics include Islamic views on Sharia law, the afterlife and the five senses. Lange goes beyond the arabocentric perspective by also studying the religious experience of Muslims in South-East Asian, Persian and Turkish territories. This approach reveals a colorful, dynamic and multifaceted picture, challenging the one-dimensional view of Islam that sometimes dominates public debate.