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Principal Investigators (Affiliated Faculty)
Institute of Islamic Studies
Freie Universität BerlinPhone: 0049-(0)30-838-52487
E-Mail: manan.ahmed@fu-berlin.deField: South Asian Studies
Areas of research: Intellectual History, Islam in South and Southeast Asia, Medieval India, Empire, Memory Studies, Indian Ocean
Prof. Dr. Schirin Amir-Moazami
Institute of Islamic Studies
Freie Universität BerlinPhone: 0049-(0)30-838-52487
E-Mail: schirin.amir-moazami@fu-berlin.deField: Islamic Studies
Areas of research: Islam in Europe, Secularism, Political Theory, Gender
Prof. Dr. Ingeborg Baldauf Member of the Executive Committee
Institute of African and Asian Studies
Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinPhone: 0049-(0)30-2093-6651
E-Mail: ingeborg.baldauf@rz.hu-berlin.deField: Asian Studies
Areas of research: Languages and Cultures of Central Asia
Prof. Dr. Michael Bongardt Deputy Director
Institute of Comparative Ethics
Freie Universität BerlinPhone: 0049-(0)30-838 - 53076
E-Mail: mbongard@zedat.fu-berlin.deField: Intercultural Ethics
Institute of Anthropology
Freie Universität BerlinPhone: 0049-(0)30-838 56872
E-Mail: hansjoerg.dilger@berlin.deField: Social Anthropology
Areas of research: Anthropology of Religion; Medical Anthropology; Gender / Masculinities; Transnationalism and Migration; Eastern and Southern Africa
Friedrich Meinecke Institute,
Freie Universität BerlinPhone: +49-(0)30-838 56823
E-Mail: esdersst@zedat.fu-berlin.deField: Mediaeval History
Areas of research: Religion as factor in the origin of political identity; Feudal society and family structures in mediaeval Europe
Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO) / Institute of Islamic Studies
Freie Universität BerlinPhone:+49-(0)30-80307-0
Email: zmo@rz.hu-berlin.deField: History, Islamic studies
Areas of research: Islamic networks in the Indian Ocean; Urban and
intellectual history of the modern Middle East
Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
Freie Universität BerlinPhone: (030) - 838 56640
Email: charders@zedat.fu-berlin.deField: Political Science
Areas of research: Middle Eastern Politics and Societies, Transformations and Authoritarianism, Politics “from below” / Local Governance, Foreign Policies after September 11th, Arab-European Relations, Regional Cooperation in the Middle East, Gender and Violence, Gender and Participation, Peace and Conflict Studies
Institute of African and Asian Studies
Humboldt-Universität BerlinPhone:+49 30 2093-6663
Email: vincent.houben@rz.hu-berlin.deField: History and Society of Southeast Asia
Areas of research: Representations of Changing Social Orders
Institute of African and Asian Studies
Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinPhone: 0049-(0)30-2093-6662
Email: toni.huber@staff.hu-berlin.deField: Anthropology
Areas of research: Anthorpology of Religion, Anthropology and Cultural History of Tibet and Himalayan Areas
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gudrun Krämer
Institute of Islamic Studies
Freie Universität BerlinPhone: 0049-(0)30-838-52487
Email: gkraemer@zedat.fu-berlin.deField: Islamic Studies, History
Areas of research: History and culture of the Near East since the Early Modern Period; reform of Islamic thought; Islamic movements; Islamic political thought; non-Muslims under Islamic rule
Institute of Islamic Studies
Freie Universität BerlinPhone: 0049-(0)30-838-51433
Email: birgit.krawietz@fu-berlin.deField: Islamic Studies
Areas of research: Islamic law; cultural history; body and sports; Arab Gulf region
Zentrum Moderner Orient
Phone: 0049-(0)30-80307-218
Email: kaikresse@yahoo.com
Field of research: Shifts of meaning - Muslim discourses of reform and the practice of everyday life in postcolonial Mombasa.
Regional specification: Eastafrica, particularly Mombasa and Kenyan Swahili coast.
Centre for Development Studies/Zentrum für Entwicklungsländerforschung (ZELF), Institute of Geographic Sciences
Freie Universität BerlinPhone: (+49 30) 838 - 70224
Email: h.kreutzmann@fu-berlin.deField: Human Geography
Areas of research: geographical development studies; political geography; minority studies and migration research; sustainable resource use: water and pasture management; high mountain research with focus on South and Central Asia
Institute of Anthropology
Freie Universität BerlinPhone: +49(0)30-83856727
Email: luig@zedat.fu-berlin.deField: Anthropology
Institute of Iranian Studies
Freie Universität BerlinPhone: +49-(0)30-838-53579
Email: macuch@zedat.fu-berlin.deField: Iranian Studies
Areas of research: Iranian languages; history and literatures of pre-Islamic Iran; legal history; classical and modern Persian literature
Seminar of Semitic and Arabic Studies
Freie Universität BerlinPhone: 0049-(0)30-838-53597
Email: angelikaneuwirth@hotmail.comField: Arabic Studies
Areas of research: Quran and exegesis of Quran; Modern arabic literature from the Levant; Literature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Phone: +49-(0)30-82406-463
Email: pernau@mpib-berlin.mpg.deField: History, South Asian Studies
Areas of research: Indian history (18th-20th century); history of modern Islam; historical semantics, comparative studies and translation studies, history of emotions
Institute of Anthropology
Freie Universität BerlinPhone: +49-(0)30-838 52765
Email: gpfeffer@gmx.comField: Anthropology
Areas of research: Anthropology of authority, kinship and religion; South Asia (esp. tribal societies and regional research in India and Pakistan: Orissa, Sindh and Punjab)
Centre for Modern Oriental Studies (ZMO) / Otto Suhr Institute for Political Science
Freie Universität BerlinPhone: +49 30 80307-116
Email: dreetz@hu-berlin.deField: Political Science, Islam in South Asia
Areas of research: Global Muslim Networking, Islam in Asia (esp. India and Pakistan), Muslims in Europe;Political science: international relations, religious and ethnic conflict, concepts of public sphere, globalisation
Institute for Turkic Studies
Freie Universität BerlinPhone: +49 (30) 838-53955
Email: clcs@gmx.deField: Turkic and Mongolic Studies
Areas of research: Classification of the Turkic languages, reconstruction of Turkic language history, Turkic-Mongolic relations
Institute of Islamic Studies
Freie Universität BerlinPhone: 0049-(0)30-838-52487
Email: sabineschmidtke@yahoo.deField: Islamic Studies
Areas of research: Rational theology; philosophy in societies shaped by Islam
Prof. Dr. Nadja-Christina Schneider
Cross-Section for Mediality and Intermediality
Institute of Asian and African Studies
Humboldt University BerlinTel.: 0049-(0)30-2093-66043
Email: nadja-christina.schneider@asa.hu-berlin.deField: South Asian Studies
Areas of interest: Media developments in South Asia (and beyond), medialization processes and social change, debates on Islam, media and gender
Cross-Section Islam in Asian and African Societies
Institute of Asian and African Studies
Humboldt University BerlinTel.: 0049-(0)30-2093-66052
Email: manja.stephan@asa.hu-berlin.deField: Cultural Anthropology, Central Asian Studies
Areas of interest: Lived Islam, Religious Knowledge Transfer, Religious Sozialisation, Education, Youth, Post-Socialism, Central Asia
Seminar of Semitic and Arabic Studies
Freie Universität BerlinPhone: 0049-(0)30-838-52698
Email: voigtrai@zedat.fu-berlin.deField: Semitic Studies
Areas of research: Comparative Semitic studies, Semitohamitic (Afro-Asiatic) studies, Ethiosemitic languages and iteratures, Cushitic languges
