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Welcome to the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies

Welcome to the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies

International Partners

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Media presence of BGSMCS

Refugees in Berlin

Imprint according to § 5 TMG

"Aristotle's Poetics in the West (of India) from Antiquity to the Renaissance. A Multilingual Edition with Studies of the Cultural Contexts of the Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin Translations"

About the project

Project team members

Project coordinators

Doctoral candidates

Student assistant

Project team members

former researchers

Management Committee

Managing Director

Student Assistants

Principal Investigators

International Advisory Board

Bettina Dennerlein

Ildikó Bellér-Hann

Martin Riesebrodt

Studying at BGSMCS

Research Focus "Dealing with Diversity"

Research Area Governance Contested

Research Area Plural Traditions

Research Area Rethinking Social Order

Research Area Sacred Topographies

Research Area Travelling Traditions

Selected research projects of doctoral students at BGSMCS

Archive of past semesters

Antonia Bosanquet: "The Hand that rocks the Cradle is the Hand that rules the World"

Britta Frede: Die Erneuerung der Tiǧānīya in Mauretanien

Claudia Seise: Religioscapes in Muslim Indonesia

Ellinor Morack: The Dowry of the State?

Frauke-Katrin Kandale: Unsere neuen Geschwister

Jakob Krais: Geschichte als Widerstand

Johara Berriane: Ahmad al-Tijâni de Fès

Juliane Müller: Nahrungsmittel in der arabischen Medizin

Katrin Simon: Die Erben des Malcom X

Linus Strothmann: Managing Piety

Max Kramer: Mobilität und Zeugenschaft

The Cases of Cianjur and Bulukumba"

Torsten Wollina: Zwanzig Jahre Alltag

Jan Thiele: Theologie in der jemenitischen Zaydiyya

Jan Thiele: Kausalität in der Mu'tazilitischen Kosmologie

Kerstin Hünefeld: Imam Yaḥyā Ḥamīd ad-Dīn und die Juden in Sana’a (1904-1948)

Guidance (Uwongozi) by Sheikh al-Amin Mazrui

Hansjörg Dilger und Kristina Dohrn: "Living in Refugee Camps in Berlin: Women's Perspectives and Experiences"

Into the Wild: Art and Architecture in a Global Context

New Media Configurations and Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Asia and the Arab World

Prayer in the City

Schirin Amir-Moazami: "Der inspizierte Muslim: Zur Politisierung der Islamforschung in Europa"

Social Dynamics 2.0

The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire

Laura Hindelang: "Im Land des Meeres. Der Persische Golf im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Kunst"

Jannis Grimm und Stephan Roll: „Ägyptens Parteien zwischen Kooptation und Marginalisierung“

Kristina Dohrn: "A 'Golden Generation'? Framing the Future among Senior Students at Gülen-inspired Schools in Urban Tanzania."

Aleksandra Lewicki: "Institutionelle Diskriminierung: Rechtliche Möglichkeiten in Deutschland und Großbritannien"

Chorshanbe Goibnazarov: "Qasā‘id-khānī in Wakhān valley of Badakhshan, Tajikistan"

Jannis Grimm and Stephan Roll: . "In der Sackgasse: Ägyptens Menschenrechtsorganisationen im Visier des Sicherheitsstaates."

Josephine Gehlhar: "Die türkisch‐osmanische Bibelübersetzung/The Ottoman Turkish Bible Translation"

Zeynep Aydogan: "Changing Perceptions along the Frontiers: The Moving Frontier with Rum in Late Medieval Anatolian Frontier Narratives."

Stijn van Huis: The Islamic Court of Bulukumba and Women’s Access to Divorce and Post-Divorce Rights

Syaifudin Zuhri: The Mosque as the Religious Sphere

Kerstin Hünefeld und Menashe Anzi: "Ṣanʿāʾ, Jerusalem, New York"

Saskia Schäfer and Frederik Holst: Anti-Feminist Discourses and Islam in Malaysia

Alina Kokoschka and Birgit Krawietz: Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya

Lucía Cirianni Salazar: "Un material barato de la política interna"

Merima Šehagić: “Life After Genocide: Bosnian Muslim women Remembering Together”

Miriam Kurz: "Lowering the Gaze, Shaping Desires"

Claudia Seise: "What Happens after Class?"

Claudia Seise: Indonesian Art in the Periphery

Journal Articles

Aleksandra Lewicki u. Marta Bivand Erdal: "Moving Citizens: Citizenship Practices among Polish Migrants in the UK and Norway"

Aleksandra Lewicki: "Bürgschaft in Europa: Grenzziehung und soziale Bewegungen in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft"

Aleksandra Lewicki: "The blind spots of liberal citizenship and integration policy"

Alexandra Lewicki und Marta Bivand Erdal: "Polish migration within Europe: mobility, transnationalism and integration"

Dina El-Sharnouby: "From State Exclusionary Politics to Youth Inclusionary Practices: The Tahrir Square Experience"

Eva Christine Schmidt: "Die Frauenbewegung zwischen Vereinnahmung und Opposition"

Hanna Nieber: "‘They all just want to get healthy!’ Drinking the Qur’an between forming religious and medical subjectivities in Zanzibar"

Jannis Grimm und Cilja Harders: "Unpacking the effects of repression"

Jannis Grimm und Ilyas Saliba: "Free Research in Fearful Times: Conceptualizing an Index to Monitor Academic Freedom"

Jannis Grimm: "Das Ende des ‘Arabischen Frühlings’ der Bewegungsforschung"

Kerstin Hünefeld: "The Imām Is Responsible for Me Before God! "

Kristina Dohrn: "Translocal Ethics: Hizmet Teachers and the Formation of Gülen-inspired Schools in Urban Tanzania"

Mareike Transfeld: "Opposition dynamism under authoritarianism: the case of Yemen, 1994–2011"

Max Kramer: "Mobilizing Conflict Testimony: A Lens of Mobility for the Study of Documentary Practices in the Kashmir Conflict"

Max Kramer: "Verlust, Erinnerung und Versöhnung?"

Merima Šehagić: “How a Collective Trauma Influences Ethno-Religious Relations of Adolescents in Present-Day Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina”

Roman Seidel: Nahöstliche Philosophie transregional

Rosa Cordillera Castillo et al.: "Subverting 'Formalised' Ethics through Mainstreaming Critical Research Ethics and a Responsive Review Process."

Rosa Cordillera Castillo: "The Emotional, Political, and Analytical Labor of Engaged Anthropology Amidst Violent Political Conflict"

Salma Siddique: "Someone to Check Her a Bit"

Salma Sidique: "Rustic Releases Vernacular: Cinema and Partition Temporality in Lahore"

Schäfer, Saskia: Democratic Decline in Indonesia: The Role of Religious Authorities

Syafiq Hasyim: "Challenging a Home Country: A Preliminary Account of Indonesian Student Activism in Berlin, Germany"

Thomas Schad: "From Muslims into Turks"

Zacky Khairul Umam: Seventeenth-Century Islamic Teaching in Medina: The Life, Circle, and Forum of Ahmad al-Qushashi

Zacky Khairul-Umam: "Seventeenth-Century Islamic Teaching in Medina: The Life, Circle, and Forum of Ahmad al-Qushashi"

Kerstin Hünefeld: "Niẓām al‑Yahūd (“The Statute of the Jews”)"

Online Publications

Aleksandra Lewicki: "Christliche Wohlfahrtsverbände: Vielfalt und Diskriminierung in der Seniorenpflege"

Arie Setyaningrum Pamungkas: The Dakwah Media in Post Suharto Indonesia

Besnik Sinani: "European Islamophobia Report: Albania"

Interview mit Mareike Transfeld: "Jemen: Humanitäre Katastrophe wird sich eher verschlechtern"

Jannis Grimm: "Die Grenzen autoritärer Kontrolle: Dynamiken von Mobilisierung und Repression nach dem Militärputsch in Ägypten"

Jannis Grimm: "Menschenrechte in Ägypten: Die ausgeblendete Krise"

Johara Berriane: Entre ancrage local et connexions transnationales

Mareike Beez: Der zwölferschiitische Martyriumsdiskurs im Iran des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts

Mareike Transfeld: "Iran's Small Hand in Yemen"

Mareike Transfeld: "Waiting for the State, Relying on the Family Yemen’s Youth in Peril"

Mareike Transfeld: #HashtagSolidarities

Mareike Transfeld: Twittering the Saudi Intervention in Yemen

Max Kramer: Sprachliche Imagination im Film

Omar Kasmani: "Fakir Her-stories. Women's Spiritual Careers and the Limits of the Masculine In Pakistan"

Provincializing Epistemologies

Razak Khan: "Rethinking “National Culture” of India: An Entangled Indo-German Intellectual History"

Rosa Cordillera Castillo: "The Mamasapano clash, memories of violence, and the politics of Muslim belonging in the Philippines"

Ruth Mas: "Notes on Christianity, Empire and Provincialising Secularism in the Study of Islam"

Ruth Streicher and Schirin Amir-Moazami: "Reflections on Hegemonies of Knowledge Production and the Politics of Disciplinary Divisions"

Ruth Streicher: "Imperialism, Buddhism, and the Secular in 19th-Century Siam - Notes on Provincializing Secularism"

Saima Haq: "Independent Cinema in India: An Emerging Cinematic Form"

Samuli Schielke u. Mukhtar Saad Shehata: "The writing of lives. An ethnography of writers and their milieus in Alexandria"

Sarah Holz: Reforming Tradition and Traditions of Reform in Muslim South Asia

Schirin Amir-Moazami and Ruth Streicher: "Provincializing Epistemologies: Reflections on Hegemonies of Knowledge Production and the Politics of Disciplinary Divisions"

Schirin Amir-Moazami: "Secular Power and the Predicaments of Knowledge Production on Muslims in Europe"

Syafiq Hasyim: State and Religion

Thomas Schad: The Rediscovery of the Balkans?

Ulrike Schaper "Universalizing the Province Europe in Early German Legal Anthropology"

Stefan Maneval: Niemand hat die Absicht, einen Aufsatz zu zensieren. Archäologie, Politik und Zensur im Zusammenhang mit der Ausstellung „Roads of Arabia. Archäologische Schätze aus Saudi-Arabien"

Journalistic Contributions

Jannis Grimm: "Two years ago nationalism sparked major protests in Egypt. Could it happen again?"

"Die Frauen selbst werden zu selten angehört"

Verspätet? Lokal? Bergsonianisch? Zur Moderne in der Türkei

"Die Suche nach einer geschmeidigen muslimischen Stimme"

Kristina Dohrn: "Die Gülen-Bewegung Enstehung und Entwicklung eines muslimischen Netzwerks"

Kristina Dohrn: "Tansania. Erdogan stört den Unterricht"

"Stigmatisierung in Deutschland - der Rassismus tobt nicht nur am rechten Rand."

An diesem Todesurteil zeigt der Westen Doppelmoral

"Klassische Merkmale faschistischer Herrschaft"

Der Islam, der Koran und die Bilder: Ein anderes Bild der Muslime

Saskia Schäfer: "Indonesien: Autokratie vs. Demokratie"

"Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte" zum Thema Saudi-Arabien

Jannis Grimm: "Informal Power in the Greater Middle East. Hidden Geogra-phies" (review)

Jannis Grimm: Egypt by Robert Springborg (review)

Anniversary - 10 Years BGSMCS

Videos 10 Year Anniversary

Academic Day 2013

Academic Day 2014

Academic Day 2015

Academic Day 2016

Academic Day 2018

Academic Writing

One-day Intense Writing 2015

One-day Intense Writing, June 2016

Writing Retreat 2015

Writing Retreat 2016

Conferences/Seminars/Workshops

Academic Day 2015

Call for Applications: Workshop: Studying the State: Anthropological Approaches

(Re-)Configurations of Islam in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Summer School on Islamic Practices, Imaginations, Groups, and Actors in the African Context

International Workshop "Provincializing the Social Sciences"

Zones of Being and Non-Being in the Post-Colony

Time for Medialisation

Cultural Events

Long Night of Science

Lectures/Discussions

Lectures at the BGSMCS

"The Long Ninth Century in Arabic-Islamic Knowledge and Culture"

Ander(e)s Wissen: Kritische Betrachtungen globaler Wissensproduktion

At the Centre of the World? A Spatial Approach to the Hajj Pilgrimage

The Middle East and South Asia in Conversation: Interventions, Control, and Resistance in the 21st Century

"Islamic Art in the 21st Century: Conversations"

"Revisiting Europe through the 'Muslim Question'"

"Engaging with Contemporary Philosophy in the Middle East and Muslim South Asia: Themes, Approaches, and New Perspectives"

International Summer Schools

Doctoral Students' Blog

"Wer redet ist nicht tot": Zum Thema Islam (-wissenschaften)

1. Mai - Berlin Kreuzberg

Bahar Baser & Aleksandra Lewicki: "The Turkish referendum thwarts civil rights struggles – in Europe and in Turkey"

Besnik Sinani: "Entertainment as a Marker of Religious Reform in Saudi Arabia"

Central Mindanao, Philippines: “Mamasapano: Who do we condemn? Whose lives matter?”

Die verpasste Revolution

Frisch nach Deutschland umgezogen

Hanna Nieber: “Drinking the Written Qur’an: Scripture and Healing in Zanzibar Town”

In Kairo herrscht der Widerspruch

Jannis Grimm: "Al Sisis Hofstaat: Hintergründe zum Wahlergebnis in Ägypten"

Jannis Grimm: "Convergent Authoritarianisms in Egypt and Turkey"

Jannis Grimm: "Falsche Solidarität Militärischer Aktionismus in Syrien ist moralisch falsch und wenig effektiv."

Jannis Grimm: "Kaum eine Wahl: Ägyptens Parlamentswahlen zementieren die autokratische Ordnung"

Jannis Grimm: "Menschenrechte in Ägypten: Die ausgeblendete Krise"

Jannis Grimm: "Repression and restriction: Egypt's civil society on the defensive"

Mareike Transfeld: "Der Jemen-Krieg: Ein Nationalstaat zerfällt"

Mareike Transfeld: "Soziale Medien - Befreiungstechnologie oder Propagandainstrument?"

Mareike Transfeld: "Yemen’s transition to political stability was doomed to fail. Here’s why."

Max Kramer: "Azadi „von“ Indien oder „in“ Indien? Kaschmiris posten auf Facebook zur Politik der Postposition"

Nigerian Election 2015: Hope after Despair

Religion and the Nigerian Election

Salma Siddique: "Signs of Solidarity"

Sara Abbas: "Why It Matters That Ahmed Mohamed Is Both Black and Muslim"

Silvia Ilonka Wolf: "Commemorating and Thinking with Clifford Geertz in Rabat: the comparative study of Islam in Morocco and Indonesia fifty years after 'Islam Observed'"

Soheb Niazi: "Reclaiming 'Manliness': Reflections on growing up in Delhi"

Soheb Niazi: "The Politics of Imagining (in) Urdu in Contemporary India"

Thomas Schad: "In Bosnia (I)"

Thomas Schad: "In Bosnia (II): on traditions and naming"

“What is Art History when the Primary Sensory Organ is the Heart?”

Prospective Students (application/admission)

Recently accepted students