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received his Ph.D. from the Université de Tunis in 2009 with a dissertation on Representations of the Companions of Muhammad in the Hadith Collections under the supervision of Professor Wahid Saafi. He graduated in Arabic art and civilisation from the Université de la Manouba with a thesis on The Grave Sin in Islamic Theology in 2002, supervised by Professor Abdelmajid Charfi. Since 2002 Nader Hammami is a member of the Tunisian research groups on The Quranic Codex and its Readings (headed by Professor Charfi) and Readings of Religious Discourses (headed by Professor Saafi). He taught at the University of Sfax and has been a 2007 Fellow of the EUME Summer Academy on Literary and Historical Approaches to the Qur’an and the Bible. Among his publications are Tabari and his Sunni Opponents (in Arabic 2005), Islam al-fuqaha (“Islam of the Jurists”; in Arabic; Dar at-Tali’a, Beirut 2006) and Sources of Ibn Khaldun’s Theory of Sunni Mysticism (in Arabic, Institute  Superieur des Langues de Tunis 2007). His research interests are in Quranic Studies, classical and medieval Islamic imagination.