Awards & Honorary Positions
2025
Member of the Advisory Board, TOKAT Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies, New Jersey, USA [More]
International Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Mass., USA [More]
Member of the Advisory Board, German Orient-Institute, Beirut, Lebanon [More]
2020
Hans Robert Roemer Research Fellowship, German Orient Institute of Beirut
2019
Award for Outstanding Academic Contributions, awarded by the President of the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan [More]
2018
Certificate and Medal of Appreciation in Service of the Dialogue between East and West, awarded by the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar and Chair of the Muslim Council of Elders, Cairo (October 2018) [More]
2017-2018
Willis F. Doney Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
2010-2015
President & Vice President, European Association of Arabic and Islamic Studies/Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI)
2011-2012
Associate Member, Lichtenberg Institute for Advanced Studies, Goettingen
2004-2006
President, The Oriental Club of Toronto