Field: Islamic Studies

Areas of research: Islam in Europe, Secularism, Political Theory, Gender

  

First supervisor of completed PhD projects:

Reconstructing Class, Gender, and Islam: The Discoursive Emergence of the "Islamic Bourgeoisie" and the Middle Class Veiled Muslim Women in Istanbul (Nursem Keskin Aksay)

  

First supervisor of current PhD projects:

Islamische Wissensproduktion an der öffentlichen Universität: Debatten um eine ‚Akademisierung‘ des Islams in Deutschland (Anne Schönfeld)

The History of the Present: A Postcolonial Genealogy of Germany's Politics of Islam (Zubair Ahmad)

Euromuslim, Gangster, Prophet-Lover, Islamist? Young Muslim Men in Berlin between Public Discourse, Religious Discursive Traditions, and Gendered Subject Formation (Miriam Kurz)

Rendering Islam Liberal: Secularism, Sexuality and the Politics of Muslim Self-appropriation in Germany (Ahmad Abdalla)

Negotiating Semites: Muslims and Jews redefine Otherness (Udi Raz)