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Fidora Riera, Alexander
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ICREA Research Professor at UAB (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona). Humanities
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Alexander Fidora, born 1975 in Offenbach (Germany), studied philosophy at the University of Frankfurt and the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona. He obtained his PhD in 2003 at Frankfurt University. He has been a researcher in the Department of Philosophy at Frankfurt University since 1999, becoming an Assistant Professor in 2003. Since 2005 he has been co-director of a research project at Frankfurt University, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In 2006 he accepted a position at the Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats in the Department of Ancient and Medieval Studies of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where he is conducting research on intercultural and inter-religious aspects of medieval philosophy. He is a member of the research team “The Perception of Islam in Medieval Christian Society” and directs the ERC-Research Project: "Latin Philosophy into Hebrew" at the UAB: http://latintohebrew.uab.es
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Research Interest
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Alexander Fidora is working on the interreligious dimensions of medieval Hispanic philosophy. In particular, he studies cultural contacts between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, such as: Reception, interpretation and transformation of philosophical and theological translations from Arabic by Jewish and Christian authors; Polemics, controversial theology and interreligious dialogue in the Middle Ages; and Consequences of the confrontation between the three religions of the Book for the formation of European culture.
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KeyWords
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Philosophy, Cultures and cultural diversity
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ERC Codes
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Cultures & cultural diversity, Humanities
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