# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sven-kalisch
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:19:41.740Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sven-kalisch"
name: "Sven Kalisch"
slug: "sven-kalisch"
description: "Sven Kalisch is a German scholar, formerly an Islamic theologian. He converted to Islam at age 15, became the first in Germany to hold a chair in Islamic theology, then in 2008 announced that he had come to the conclusion that the Islamic prophet Muhammad probably never existed. Official Islamic groups in Germany have referred to him as an apostate. Germany's Muslim Coordinating Council withdrew from the advisory board of professor Kalisch's centre."
tagline: "German academic"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1966-03-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           45.73
  momentum:             12.05882352941176
  historical:           7.219224000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Sven Kalisch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "محمد كاليش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B4"
    title: "محمد كاليش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Kalisch"
    title: "Sven Kalisch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Kalisch"
    title: "Sven Kalisch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Kalisch"
    title: "Sven Kalisch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%81%DB%8C%D9%86_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%B4"
    title: "سفین کالیش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Kalisch"
    title: "Sven Kalisch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q96333"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump