Stefan Wild

Stefan Wild (born 1937) is a German scholar of Quranic studies.^[1]

Born in Leipzig in 1937, Stefan Wild pursued studies in Semitic languages, Islamic Studies, Egyptology, and philosophy at institutions in Munich, Yale, Erlangen, and Tübingen, earning his doctorate in 1961.^[2] He began his career as an assistant at the Orient-Institut Beirut and the Oriental seminary at the University of Heidelberg. After completing his habilitation in Munich in 1968, he directed the Orient-Institut Beirut from 1968 to 1973.^[2] Wild then held positions at the University of Amsterdam from 1975 to 1977 and at the University of Bonn from 1977 to 2002. He served as a co-editor for Bibliotheca Islamica from 1974 to 1981 and for the International Journal for the Study of Modern Islam until 2009.^[2] He became emeritus in April 2002 and was a fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study in the same year. In 2005, he was honored with the Helga und Edzard Reuter-Stiftung prize for his scholarly work.^[2]

• Self-Referentiality in the Qur´an (ed.) (2006)
• The Qur'an as Text (ed.) (1996)