He has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses (though latterly focusing on postgraduate teaching and research) across the whole thematic range of Arab and Islamic historical studies, medieval and modern, at the
Central European University, the
American University of Beirut,
Yale University,
Columbia University, the
University of Exeter,
Cornell University, the
University of Oxford, the
University of California, Berkeley (where he was the Sultan Visiting Professor),
Georgetown University, and more recently at the
Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations of the
Aga Khan University. In the Fall of 1998, Aziz Al-Azmeh was a Residential Fellow at the
Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in
Uppsala,
Sweden. He has served on the editorial boards of several academic journals, including the
Medieval History Journal His book
Islams and Modernities was released on October 17, 1996. The book explores the history of interaction between
Islam and
Europe, analyzing myths about those interactions created by
Orientalist and
Islamist viewpoints. A new version was released on August 7, 2009, also examining "the discourse surrounding Islamism and irrationalism after 9/11."
The Guardian wrote that "
Islams and Modernities raises urgent questions that are central to the concerns of the contemporary world.”
New Statesman wrote that “Aziz Al-Azmeh is perhaps the most original thinker on these themes in Britain today." In 2002 he became a professor at the
Central European University in
Budapest. In 2010, he was then a visiting research fellow at the university in the School of History and Interdisciplinary Historical Studies. ==Awards and honors ==