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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?”

Imprint according to § 5 TMG

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Contributions to Edited Volumes

"Mehr als nur ein Projekt, sondern gute Beziehungen". Partizipation als Grundlage für Empowerment

"Money-Making is Their Prime Concern". Markets, Mobility, and Matrimony among South Indian Muslims in Colonial Southeast Asia

"That you Be Brought Near.". Union beyond the Grave in the Arabic Literary Tradition

A Shrine gone Urban. The Shrine of Data Ganj Bukhsh, Lahore, as a City within the City

A Socio-religious Analysis of Abdul-Ganiyy Adebayo Alabi’s Arabic Plays

A “Golden Generation”?. Framing the Future Among Senior Students at Gülen-Inspired Schools in Urban Tanzania

Abbasid Poets and the Qur’ān

Abū Hāshim al-Jubbāʾī’s (d. 321/933) Theory of “States” (aḥwāl) and its Adaption by Ashʿarite Theologians

Abū Hāshim al-Jubbā’ī

Accumulating Trust. Uyghur Traders in the Sino-Kyrgyz Border Trade After 1991

Ahmad al-Tijani and His Neighbors. The Inhabitants of Fez and their Perceptions of the Zawiya

Ambiguous Jokes. Nasreddin Hoca, Afandi and Folklore Studies

Anti-Feminist Discourses and Islam in Malaysia

Antworten: Michael Bongardt

Applying the Lens of Mobility to Media and Gender Studies. An Introduction

Arabische Literatur

Art and Architecture in a global context. A conceptual approach

Aslına Bakılırsa, Sahipsiz Kalmış Durumda’. Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi’nin ‘Terk Edilmiş Mülk Kanunu’ Görüşmelerinde Metin ve Altmetin (1921-1922)

Aspects of Craft in the Arabic Book Revolution

Aswāq al-Dhahab and the Classical Maqāmāt. A Comparative Study

Au-delà de la crainte de la femme musulmane voilée

Barelwi movement

Bayna Qurṭuba wa-Nīsābūr. Buzūġ al-Ašʿariyya wa-tawaṭṭud arkānihā (al-qarnān al-rābiʿ wa-l-ḫāmis al-hiǧrī/al-ʿāšir wa-l-ḥādī ʿāšr al-mīlādī)

Between Cordoba and Nīsābūr. The Emergence and Consolidation of Ashʿarism (Fourth-Fifth/Tenth-Eleventh Century)

Beyond Europe. New Perspectives on the Great War

Beyond the Individual Twitter Debate

Brokerage and Interpersonal Relationships in Scholarly Networks. Ibn Ḥaǧar al-ʿAsqalānī and His Early Academic Career

Building and Destroying Authenticity in Aleppo. Heritage between Conservation, Transformation, Destruction, and Re-Invention

Can poetry change the world?. Reading Amal Dunqul in Egypt in 2011

Challenging Orders. Ṭarīqas and Muslim Society in Southeastern India and Laṅkā, ca. 1400–1950

Challenging the Hagia Sophia. The Selimiye Mosque in Edirne as Ottoman Empire Branding

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

Checkpoints ans the Gendered Policing of Nation-State Boundaries in Southern Thailand

Colonial Capitalism and Javenese Transcolonial Labor Migration in Insular Asia

Contested sovereignties along the Syrian border (1921-1939)

Crossing at Irkeshtam. Kinship and border trade between Kyrgyzstan and China

Das Great Game. Asien als Bühne eines imperialen Machtkampfes

Das Schicksal der Bücher von Bsorino im Turabdin während des Sayfo, des Genozids an den syrischen Christen

Daylamī, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥasan

Deobandi movement

Der Koran "europäisch"gelesen: Überlegungen zum spätantiken Horizont des Koran

Der abwesende Dritte. Die Darstellung des Islam im Titulus V des Dialogus des Petrus Alfonsi

Dhimma Space and its Governmental Relevance. The Protection-Relationship (Dhimma) between Imām Yaḥyā Ḥamīd al-Dīn (1869-1948) and the Yemenite Jews revisited

Dialogue and Autobiography. Ibn al-Hayṯam’s Kitāb al-Munāẓarāt

Die "Entdeckung des Bösen" im Koran?. Überlegungen zu den koranischen Versionen des Dekalogs: Überlegungen zu den Versionen des koranischen Dekalogs

Die Autopsie des Mondes. Vom kosmischen Körper zum kalligraphischen Prophetenbild

Die Autorität von Identität. Geschichten aus Mittelasien um 1900

Die Nachfolge des Propheten Muḥammad. Sunnitische und schiitische Perspektiven aus dem Tunesien des frühen 10. Jahrhunderts

Die liberale Reformbewegung in Saudi-Arabien. Analyse und Übersetzung der Reformpetition vom 2. Februar 2007

Die türkisch-osmanische Bibelübersetzung

Die vielen Namen des Koran. „Offenbarung“, „Inlibration“ oder „Herabsendung“ und „Lesung“?

Die ‚muslimische Frage‘ in Europa. Aporien der Anerkennung unter liberal-säkularen Bedingungen

Domestic, Religious, Civic?. Notes on Institutionalized Charity in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Dämonisierung und Einverleibung. Die "musilimische Frage" in Europa

Early Arabic Philologists. Poetry's Friends or Foes?

Earth, society and sustainability. A tragedy of responsibility?

Eastern Shrines and Western Values. A subjective (self-) reflection on why Western and Western educated scholars have neglected state run Pakistani shrines

Egypt Is Not For Sale!. Harnessing Nationalism for Alliance Building in Egypt’s Tiran and Sanafir Island Protests

Ein vieldeutiger Bezugspunkt. Die Bedeutung heiliger Schriften in Bildungsprozessen

Eine "religiöse Mutation der Spätantike": Von tribaler Genealogie zum Gottesbund. Koranische Refigurationen pagan-arabischer Ideale nach biblischen Modellen

Entwicklung im Schatten militärischer Sicherung

Epistemologien der »muslimischen Frage« in Europa

Erzählen im arabischen adab. Zwischen Fiktionalität und Faktualität

Pamirs at the crossroads. Changing challenges and perspectives

Expanding the Toolbox. Discourse Analysis and Area Studies

Female Sainthood Between Politics and Legend. The Emergence of Bibi Nushin of Shibirghan

Female roles in socio-political changes in the Middle East and North Africa. An appraisal of major tendencies and trends in the last two decades

Framing Istanbul. Resonances of the Photography of James Robertson in Envisioning the Istanbul Landscape

Framing Muslims or reframing the questions. Notes on the "Muslim question" in Europe

From "'rational" to "Sufi Islam"?. The changing place of Muslims in Tamil nationalism

From Himalayan dilemma to climate change dilemma?. Challenges for high mountain development

From upscaling to rescaling. Transforming the Fergana Basin from Tsarist irrigation to water management for an independent Uzbekistan

Fusion and Disruption. A Sufi Pilgrimage to the Basilica of Guadalupe

Für eine Methodik des Zu-Zweit-Forschens. Erfahrungsbericht eines Dialogs

Gender, Justice and Rights. The Malaysian Case

Gender-Based Barriers to Access to Health Care and Medicine. The Case of India and China

German Muslim federations. Zentralrat der Muslime in Deutschland and Koordinierungsrat der Muslime

God in the World of Man. Hans Jonas‘ Philosophy of Religion

Hashish and Food. Arabic and European Medieval Dreams of Edible Paradises

Hashish and Homoerotic Desire in Pre-Modern Arab Society

Heinrich Freiherr von Maltzan's "My Pilgrimage to Mecca". A Critical Investigation

Historical geography of the Pamirs

Historiographie

Homes and Colonial Violence in the Dutch East Indies. The Coolie Pondok

I. Dünya savaşı Suriye’sinde Şiddet Hafızası

Il Cairo, tra realismo e allegoria nella narrativa di Nağīb Maḥfūẓ e ʿAlāʾ al-Aswānī

Im Garten der Lüste

Im Land des Meeres. Der Persische Golf im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Kunst

Immigration and Cinema: Q-Team

Imperialism, Buddhism, and the Secular in 19th-Century Siam. Notes on Provincializing Secularism

In der Sackgasse. Ägyptens Menschenrechtsorganisationen im Visier des Sicherheitsstaates

In the Path of the Ancestors. The Ba 'Alawi Order and the Struggle for Shaping the Future of Islam

Inder in Südostasien

Indonesian Art in the Periphery. Contemporary South Sumatran Lacquer Art

Indonesien: Figurationen von Vielfalt in Einheit

Infrastructure and Community. Lessons from two decades development initiatives on the Xinjiang side of the CPEC

Inscribing Authority. Scribal and Archival Practices of a Safavid Decree

Institutionelle Diskriminierung. Rechtliche Möglichkeiten in Deutschland und Großbritannien

Intellectual Creativity in a Time of Turmoil and Transition

Interdisciplinarity, Disciplines and Temporalities. Continuity or Discontinuity

Intersecting Dynamics. Representational Activism and New Mobilities among “Muslim Women” in India

Interviews as Situated Affective Encounters. A Relational and Processual Approach for Empirical Research on Affect, Emotion and Politics

Intoxicants, Islamic World

Cosmopolitanism and conflicts. Changes and challenges in Ottoman urban governance

Introduction: Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation. A Dialectical and Multi-Scalar Reading

Framing Sufism in South Asian Muslim Politics of Belonging

Representations of Space, Place-making and Urban Life in Muslim Societies

Iranische Gemeinschaften in der Pamirregion

Islamic Art in the Islamic World. Museums and Architectural Revivalism

Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Racism Across Europe. Empirical and Conceptual Reflections

Jaʿfar b. Abī Yaḥyā, Shams al-Dīn Abū l-Faḍl

Jemen: Medien als politische Waffe

Jābir b. Ḥayyān

Kalila wa-Dimna: A Unique Work of World Literature

Kalila wa-Dimna: Ein einzigartiges Werk der Weltliteratur

Koloniale Moderne in Nederlandsch-Indië. Grenzen und Gegenströme

Kuinka elää joten kuten hyvää elämää Egyptissä

L'humour dans l'Égypte mamelouke. Le Nuzhat al-nufūs wa-muḍḥik al-ʿabūs d'Ibn Sūdūn al-Bašbuġāwī

Law: Modern Family Law. India

Laïcité and Piety. The Tablīghī Jamā‘at in France

Le plaisir de l'ivresse. Haschich et littérature homoérotique dans l'époque mamelouke

Life After Genocide. Bosnian Muslim Women Remembering Together

Lifestyle and Liberty in the Name of Piety. Philanthropy in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Literacy in Turoyo, the Aramaic language of Turabdin and the translation of Alice

Literarische Grenzgänge. Der neue saudische Roman

Literary Sweets. Interlacing motifs in the Sukkardān al-Sulṭān of Ibn Abī Ḥaǧalah (1325-1375)

Lokale Dynamiken, globale Kontexte. Die arabischen Revolten jenseits einer Rhetorik des Scheiterns

Longing for home: Al-ḥanīn ilā l-awṭān and its alternatives in classical Arabic literature

Lost and Found. A Matter of Orientation

Lowering the Gaze, Shaping Desires. A Perspective on Islamic Masculinity in Germany

MS Berlin, State Library, Glaser 51. A Unique Manuscript from the Early 7th/13th-Century Bahšamite Milieu in Yemen

Marriage and Closeness in Kashgar

Mediated Politics and the Populist Political Style

Medizinethnologie

Muslim Universities in East Africa. Negotiating Cultural Identity and Political Challenges

Narrative Strategies in Biographical Dictionaries. The ad-Durar al-Kāmina of Ibn Ḥaǧar al-ʿAsqalānī - A Case Study

Naẓariyyat ‘al-aḥwāl’ li-Abī Hāšim al-Ǧubbāʾī wa-taʿdīl mutakallimī al-Ašʿariyya lahā

Neuere Tendenzen der Restaurierung „authentischer arabischer Architektur“ am Beispiel Saudi Arabiens

New Area Studies, Translation and Mid-Range Concepts

New Neighborhood Power. Informal Popular Committees and Changing Local Governance in Egypt

New Practices of Self-Representation. The Use of Online Media by Ahmadiyya and Shia communities in Indonesia and Malaysia

News and Rumor. Local Sources of Knowledge About the World

Niẓām al-Yahūd (“The Statute of the Jews”). Imām Yaḥyā’s writing to the Jews of Ṣanʿāʾ from 1323/1905

Notes on Christianity, Empire and Provincialising Secularism in the Study of Islam

Notes sur l’ašʿarisme d’Abū l-Walīd al-Bāǧī

Objectification: = Objektivierung

On Divine Aboveness (al-Fawqiyya). The Development of Rationalized Ḥadīth-Based Argumentations in Islamic Theology

On the Margins. Suburban Space and Religious Deviancy in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur

Organizing Coexistence in Early Ottoman Aleppo. An Interpretation of the 1518, 1526 and 1536 Tahrîr Defteris and the 1536 Qanunname

Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nda Müstesna bir Ziyaretgȃh: Eyüp Sultan

Overseeing the pre-1915 lands and layering power in present-day Batman, Turkey

Paixões bíblicas como desafio. Negociação, desarmamento e reconstrução do sacrifício de Abraão no Alcorão

Pakistan's State-run Shrines. Establishment and Contestation of a National Religious Identity at Punjab ́s most important Sufi Shrine

Pamir or Pamirs. Perceptions and Interpretations

Pamirian Crossroads and the New Silk Road Initiative

Pamirian Spaces. Mapping Process Geographies In the Mountainous Periphery

Pastoralists in China

Pathways to Politcal Power in Sudan

Perspectives on Truth, Justice, Reparation and Reconciliation in Central Mindanao

Perspectives, Aspirations and Constraints. How To Do Politics in Off-Centre Afghanistan

Physiognomy as a Secret for the King. The Chapter on Physiognomy in the Pseudo-Aristotelian “Secret of Secrets”

Playing with gender. The carnival of al-Qays in Jeddah

Politische und gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen im Turabdin des 19. Jahrhunderts: Rolle und Bedeutung der syrischen Christen

Preface of the Editors

Preface: Engaging Anthropology in the "Refugee Crisis" in Berlin. The Need for New Collaborations in Teaching and Research

Preserving Preservation

Protectors, Statesmen, Terrorists?. Gender and Masculinities in Muslim Texts and Contexts

Qasā‘id-khānī in Wakhān Valley of Badakhshan, Tajikistan

Qurʼānic studies and philology. Qurʼānic textual politics of staging, penetrating, and finally eclipsing biblical tradition

Recognition and Its Traps in Liberal Secular Conditions. The Case of Muslims in Europe

Reflections on Hegemonies of Knowledge Production and the Politics of Disciplinary Divisions

Reform, Resist, Recreate. The Role of Civil Society in Education in Egypt

Refugees, Locals, and “The” State. Property Compensation in the Province of Izmir Following the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange of 1923

Religion under liberal-secular governance. dialoguing with Muslims in Germany

Religionen und internationale Politik

Repertoires of European Panic and Indigenous Recaptures in Late Colonial Indonesia

Resilient forms of urbanity on the margins?. Al-Kherba: A vivid market in a damaged section of the medina of Tunis

Revolution in Sudan. The Production of “The People” as an Emancipatory Practice

Saudi Intervention in Yemen. Domestic Lens, Regional Solidarity, 'OpDecisiveStorm

Sayfo 1915. The beginning of the end of Syriac Christianity in the Middle East

Sayfo, Firman, Qafle. The First World War from the Perspective of Syriac Christians

Scholarly Exchange and Trade. Muḥammad Ḥusayn Naṣīf and His Letters to Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

Secular Power and the Predicaments of Knowledge Production on Muslims in Europe

Sexing Up the Ottoman in the Contemporary Art of Turkey

Signs of Empire. Islamic Art Museums from European Imperialism to the Global Empire of Capital

Sine, eine neuentdeckte arabische Sprachinsel in der Provinz Diyarbakir (Osttürkei)

Social stratification and change in Herzegowinian urban life in the Tanzimat era

Spatialities of Belonging: Affective Place-Making among Diasporic Neo-Pentecostal and Sufi Groups in Berlin's Cityscape

Spätantike: von einer Epoche zu einem Denkraum

Squatting and Urban Modernity in Turkey

Stains are Good if You Get Them While Doing Good. Brand Advertising as a New Field of Experimentation with Visual Secularity in India

State-Society Relations through the Lens of Urban Development

Sufismos Subversivos. Las rebeliones sufíes como elementos formativos del laicismo kemalista

Sunni and Shiite Passion Stories Revisited. On the Superseding of Sacrifice and Its Eventual Re-Empowerment

Symbolic Politics and Urban Violence in Late Ottoman Jeddah

Süße Intervention. Die Zuckerfabrik in Baghlan gestern und heute

Tablīghī Jamā‘at

Tausch und Kategorien bei der Nussernte in Kyzyl Üngkür

The Arab(ian) Gulf. Urban Development in the Making

The Central Asian oases. from trading towns to centres of modernisation

The Challenge of Biblical Passion Narratives. Negotiating, Moderating, and Reconstructing Abraham's Sacrifice in the Qur'an

The City and its Regulations. Unexpected Margins

The Concept of Heritage in Relation to World Arts. A matrimony of Others

The Dayi People and Their Language

The German Secret of Secrets. Between Dietary Handbook and Mirror for Princes

The Japanese Left and the Muslim World

The Law is Not Enough. Free and Prior Informed Consent Issues Raised by the Mining of Philippine Indigenous Peoples’ Lands; With Insights from the San-hoodia Case

The Mesopotamian-Levantine dialect continuum

The Mosque as the Religious Sphere. Looking at the Conflict over the Al Muttaqun Mosque

The Ottoman Greeks and the Great War: 1912-1922

The Political Economy of Media. An Introduction

The Practice of Zakat in Nigeria. An Analysis of the Transformation of Some Individual Muslim's Economic Status in the City of Jos

The Practice of Zakat in Northern Nigeria and the Building of Social Relationships

The Qur’an’s Enchantment of the World. "Antique" Narratives Refashioned in Arab Late Antiquity

The Return of Islam in South East Europe. Debating Islam and Islamic Practices of Family Law in Albania and Kosovo

The Role of Twitter in the MENA Region

The Sexual Harassment Debate in Egypt. Impacting Discourses and Pressuring the State in a Polarized Society, #Tahrir_Taharrush

The Valorization of Antiquities in the late Ottoman Empire. Hüseyin’s discussion of Troy, Baalbek, and the Scholarship of Antiquities in Holy Treasures

The performativity of face-veil controversies in Europe

The rhetorical Qurʾān or Orality as a theologumenon

Tipu Sultan, Fath Ali

Travelling Islam. Madrasa Graduates from India and Pakistan in the Malay Archipelago

Two faces of the Qur'ān: Qur'ān and Muṣḥaf

Un material barato de la política interna.. Resonancias del conflicto sirio en la crisis política turca

Une mémoire étouffée. Mosquées et minarets en Europe

Universalizing the Province Europe in Early German Legal Anthropology

Urban space and prestige. When festivals turned violent in Jeddah, 1880s-1960s

Wakhi in transition. From Wakhan to multilocal distribution

Wer spricht wie für wen - und warum?. Zur Anerkennung, Authentizität und Repräsentation von Muslimen unter liberal-säkularen Bedingungen

What Happens After Class?. The Islamic Concepts and Values of Iman, Ihsan, Al-Haya, Imam and Umma in Indonesian Pesantren

Wissenschaftstransfer durch Typologie. Relektüren des Abrahamsopfers im Koran und im islamischen Kultus

Witnessing Fun. Tamil-speaking Muslims and the Imagination of Ritual in Colonial Southeast Asia

Women's Pathways to Professionalization in Muslim Asia. Reconfiguring Religious Knowledge, Gender, and Connectivity

“Provincializing the Social Sciences”

Zaydī Theology in Yemen

Zaydī Theology in Yemen

Zur Jesaja-Rezeption im Koran

al-Maḏhab al-Zaydī fī l-Yaman

Ägyptens Parteien zwischen Kooptation und Marginalisierung

Ḥāl (theory of “states” in theology)

Ṣanʿāʾ, Jerusalem, New York. Imām Yaḥyā Ḥamīd al-Dīn (1869-1948) and Yemeni-Jewish Migration from Palestine to the United States

‘Keep the Wealth within the Family.'. Cousin Marriage and Swedish Uncles in Kashgar

‘Walls of Illusion’. Information Generation in Colonial Singapore and the Reporting of the Mahdi-Rebellion in Sudan, 1887-1890

’99 Lights in Europe’s Sky’. Commemorating Islamic History in Europe through Indonesian Eyes

„Beten – mit den Lippen an Gott hängen“. Eine biblisch-literarische Spurensuche

„Hüter der heiligen Stätten". Die Pilgerfahrt nach Mekka unter saudischer Herrschaft

#Hashtag Solidarities. Twitter Debates and Networks in the Mena Region

1. Dünya Savaşı ve Levant

Abdilatif Abdalla. Poet in Politics

Affective Trajectories. Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes

Denkraum Spätantike. Reflexionen von Antiken im Umfeld des Koran

Der inspizierte Muslim. Zur Politisierung der Islamforschung in Europa

Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia

Genealogie und Migrationsmythen im antiken Mittelmeerraum und auf der Arabischen Halbinsel.

Global Medieval Mirrors for Princes Reconsidered

History of Islamic Theology / Islamische Theologiegeschichte

Into the Wild. Art and Architecture in a Global Context

Islam, Sufism and everyday politics of belonging in South Asia

Jugoslawien in den 1960er Jahren. Auf dem Weg zu einem (a)normalen Staat?

Landscapes and Mindscapes. Metodologie di ricerca, percorsi geo-centrati e poetiche dello spazio in una prospettiva comparata

Living in refugee camps in Berlin. Women's perspectives and experiences

Mapping transition in the Pamirs

Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas. Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus

Monsoon Feelings. A History of Emotions in the Rain

Muslim Matter. Photographs, Objects, Essays

Neue Räume, neue Zeiten. Kindheit und Familie im Kontext von (Trans-)Migration und sozialem Wandel

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

Oases and globalization. Ruptures and continuities

Phantomgrenzen. Räume und Akteure in der Zeit neu denken

Prayer in the city. The making of Muslim sacred places and urban life

Qurʼānic studies today

Reverberations. Violence Across Time and Space

Saudi-Arabien. Ein Königreich im Wandel?

Sayfo 1915. An Anthology of Essays on the Genocide of Assyrians/Arameans during the First World War

Studies in Medieval Islamic Intellectual Traditions

Studying Youth, Media and Gender in Post-Liberalization India. Focus on Sexual Violence, New (Im)Mobilities and Evolving Gender Identities

The Ambiguous Nation. Case Studies from Southeastern Europe in the 20th Century

The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire

The Heritage of Edirne in Ottoman and Turkish Times. Continuities, Disruptions and Reconnections

The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology

The Yemeni Manuscript Tradition

The heritage of Arabo-Islamic learning. Studies presented to Wadad Kadi

Under Construction. Logics of Urbanism in the Gulf Region

Understanding Pakistan.

Understanding the City through its Margins. Pluridisciplinary Perspectives from Case Studies in Africa, Asia and the Middle East

Urban Governance Under the Ottomans. Between Cosmopolitanism and Conflict

Urban Violence in the Middle East. Changing Cityscapes in the Transition from Empire to Nation State

Ways of Knowing Muslim Cultures and Societies. Studies in Honour of Gudrun Krämer

Women’s Movements and Countermovements. The Quest for Gender Equality in Southeast Asia and the Middle East

Journal Articles

"Medicine in context". An epistemological trajectory

"Scaling" the Nation State. Religion, Language and Ethnicity in Asia and Europe

"State analysis from below" and political dynamics in Egypt after 2011

'They all just want to get healthy!'. Drinking the Qur'an Between Forming Religious and Medical Subjectivities in Zanzibar

A Communicative Figuration Between Sarajevo and Istanbul in the Course of Gentrificating Turkey’s Post-Ottoman Hinterland

A Past, So Distant, and Yet So Very Near. Belleten and the Creation of a Historiographical Rupture

A Recent Revival of Shii Studies in Germany. Three Panels on the Field

A View from Within. Ibn Ṭawq’s Personal Topography of 15th century Damascus

A Zaydī Treatise on the Proof of Accidents. The Mukhtaṣar fī ithbāt al-aʿrāḍ by al-Ḥasan al-Raṣṣāṣ

A sharīʻa court document from Neyrīz, Fārs (1303/1886)

Afghanistans agrarwirtschaftliche Landnutzung

Ahmadis or Indonesians?. The Polarization of Post-Reformasi Public Discourse on Islam and Orthodoxy in Indonesia

Aina taqʿa 'l-Iskandarīya?. Asāṭīr al-madīna wa-'l-madīna an-naqīd baʿda 'l-marḥala al-kūzmūbūlītānīya

An Ottoman Preacher’s Perception of a Medieval Cosmography. Maḥmūd al-Ḫaṭīb’s Translation of the Kharīdat al-ʻAjāʼib wa Farīḍat al-Gharā’ib

Arabische Philologie

Arabische Philologie

Aufbruch von unten und Restauration von oben. Ägypten im Jahr Sechs seiner postrevolutionären Dauerkrise

Avoiding Laghw (Nonsense, Vain Talk, Vain Actions). An Initial Contribution to the Use of Islamic Concepts in Human Sciences

Bauen in Bagdad um 1958. Wenn Bauvorhaben Revolutionen überstehen

Becoming a Tidtu a Muslim (a True Muslim). Religious and Moral Subjectivities Caught Between Adat and the MILF Islamic Revivalism

Before the Eternal. Muslim Law and the Eternity of Divine Speech

Beyond Nonhuman Animal Rights. A Grassroots Movement in Istanbul and its Alignment with Other Causes

Book Review of Amir-Moezzi, M.A. (ed.) - Islam: identité et altérité. Hommage à Guy Monnot, o.p. (Bibliothèque de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Sciences Religieuses, 165).Brepols, Turnhout, 2013

Book review of Cilandro, A. (ed.) - The Early History of Ismaili Jurisprudence. Law under the Fatimids. A critical edition of the Arabic text and English translation of al-Qadi al-Nu'man's Minhaj al-fara'id. I.B. Tauris, London & New York, 2012

Boundaries and space in Gilgit-Baltistan

Bureaucratic Policy Making in Pakistan

Bürgerschaft in Europa. Grenzziehung und soziale Beweungen in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft

Can ‘Om’ be an Islamic Term?. Translations, Encounters, and Islamic Discourse in Vernacular South Asia

Catching the Eel. Documentary Evidence for Concepts of the Arabic Book in the Middle Period

Challenging a Home Country. A Preliminary Account of Indonesian Student Activism in Berlin, Germany

Christliche Wohlfahrtsverbände. Vielfalt und Diskriminierung in der Seniorenpflege

Claiming Territory. Medical Mission, Interreligious Revivalism, and the Spatialization of Health Interventions in Urban Tanzania

Commonness and Derivative Work in Ašʿarite Literature. A Comparison of Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn al-Makkī’s Nihāyat al-marām and Abū al-Qāsim al-Anṣārī’s al-Ġunya fī al-kalām

Conceptions of Self-Determination in Fourth/Tenth-Century Muslim Theology. Al-Bāqillānī’s Theory of Human Acts in Its Historical Context

Construction et gestion identitaire chez les Lawatiya du Sultanat d'Oman, de Multân à Masqaṭ

Contemporary Ottoman Views of Catherine the Great

Criminal Networks and Governance. A Study of Lyari Karachi

Crossmedia Flows of Documentary Images and the Transnational Communicative Figuration Surrounding Gestational Surrogacy in India

Das Ende des "arabischen Frühlings" in der Bewegungsforschung

Das Ringen um Balance. Der Islam als "Religion der Mitte"

Data management in anthropology. The next phase in ethics governance?

Defining the Nation. Kurdish Historiography in Turkey in the 1990s

Democratic Decline in Indonesia. The Role of Religious Authorities

Der Islam und die Muslime. Ein Überblick

Der Koran - europäisch gelesen. Der Koran als historisches Vermächtnis der Spätantike

Destroy Your Idols

Deutsch-afghanische Entwicklungs- und Sicherheitsbeziehungen im Wandel

Development for all?. State schemes, local elites and marginalisation in 21st century Kashgar, Xinjiang

Devotional Annotations. Preserving the Family’s Memory in Arabic Manuscripts

Die Frauenbewegung zwischen Vereinnahmung und Opposition

Die Welt zusammen/denken. Krisen, Lebenswelten und Handlungsspielräume: ein Jahr Blog Medizinethnologie

Discussing al-Bāqillānī’s Theology in the Maghrib. ʿAbd al-Jalīl b. Abī Bakr al-Dībājī al-Rabaʿī’s al-Tasdīd fī sharḥ al-Tamhīd

Document Reuse in Medieval Arabic Manuscripts

Drama In Its Own Way. A Genealogy of Arabic Playwriting in Nigeria

Earth, society and sustainability. A tragedy in responsibility?

Embedded Rubber Sandals. Trade and Gifts across the Sino-Kyrgyz Border

Embodying values and socio-religious difference. New markets of moral learning in Christian and Muslim schools in urban Tanzania

Emotional translations. Conceptual history beyond language

Entre ancrage local et connexions transnationales. Pratiques, représentations et enjeux autour de la zaouïa d’Ahmad al-Tijânî de Fès

Ethics reviews in the social and cultural sciences?. A sociological and anthropological contribution to the debate

Ethics, Epistemology and Ethnography. The Need for an Anthropological Debate on Ethical Review Processes in Germany

Ethics, Epistemology, and Engagement. Encountering Values in Medical Anthropology

Ethik und Ethnologie. Ethikkommissionen, ethnographisches Arbeiten und Epistemologie - nicht nur in der Medizinethnologie

Europe and the Arab world. Neighbours and Uneasy partners in a highly conflictual context

Facing the Mahdī’s True Belief. Abū ʿAmr al-Salālijī’s Ashʿarite Creed and the Almohads’ Claim to Religious Authority

Fashioning the Gentlemanly State. The Curious Charm of the Military Uniform in Southern Thailand

Fear and Loathing in 'Gavur' Izmir. Emotions in early Republican Memories of the Greek occupation (1919-1922)

Finding Women and Gender in the Sources. Toward a Historical Anthropology of Ottoman Tripoli

Forming ‘Forbidden’ Identities Online. Atheism in Indonesia

Forum: Reviews and Comments

Frames of Time. Periodization and Universals in the Works of Abdallah Laroui

Free Research in Fearful Times. Conceptualizing a Global Index to Monitor Academic Freedom

From Archive to Archival Practices. Rethinking the Preservation of Mamlūk Administrative Documents

From Muslims into Turks?. Consensual Demographic Engineering Between Interwar Yugoslavia and Turkey

From State Exclusionary Politics to Youth Inclusionary Practices: The Tahrir Square Experience

From morality to psychology. Emotion concepts in Urdu, 1870-1920

Gender and Ottoman Social History

Gender and Vulnerable Populations in Benefit Sharing. An Exploration of Conceptual and Contextual Points

Gendered Practices of Counterinsurgency at Checkpoints in Southern Thailand

Gendered Subjects in Ottoman Constitutional Agreements, ca. 1740-1860

Gezeiten, Geister und Gemeinschaft. Der Indische Ozean als muslimisch geprägter Raum

Gift-Exchange and Gift-Giving among the Hausa in Northern Nigeria. Its Social and Religious Impact

Giving comfort, dispelling fear. Social welfare at the shrine of Data Ganj Bukhsh in Lahore, Pakistan

Grenzziehungen von "Zivilisation", Nationalstaat und Geschlecht. Militärische Aufstandsbekämpfung an Straßensperren in Südthailand

History in Adab Context. The Book of Caliphal Histories by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih

History, Time, and Temporality in a Global Frame. Abdallah Laroui’s Historical Epistemology of History

How a Collective Trauma Influences Ethno-Religious Relations of Adolescents in Present-Day Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Human Development in Pakistan and Bureaucratic Predicaments

Im/mobilities and Dis/connectivities in Medical Globalization. How global is Global Health?

In Defense of Land and Faith. Muslim Tatars between Confrontation and Accommodation in Late Imperial Russia

In Search of the Kingdom. Emerging Scholarship on Saudi Arabia. From the First Saudi State to the Present

In Search of the Kingdom. Emerging Scholarship on Saudi Arabia. From the First Saudi State to the Present

In memoriam: Matthias Kuhle

Independent Cinema in India. An Emerging Cinematic Form

Informalität von oben und unten. Stadtentwicklung in Kabul im Kontext von Staatsaufbau und militärisch-humanitärer Intervention

Interplay between Religion and Politics in Nigeria

Introduction: Concepts of emotions in Indian languages

Investigating the Secular Body. The Politics of the Male Circumcision Debate In Germany

Is Prose Poetry a Conspiracy Against the Noble Qur'an?. Poetics, Humans, and God in Contemporary Egypt

Islam in the Echo Chamber. Homogenisation and Polarisation in Indonesia and Malaysia

Islamic Zanzibar. Between the African Mainland and the Indian Ocean

Islamistische Radikalisierung durch Online-Propaganda in Deutschland. Mittel und Strategien des IS

Jedan osmanlijski izvor o vojsci Kraljevine Srbije iz 1915

Judging the judge. Judicial competence in 19th century Iran

Kastenorganisation und die Politik von Kaste. Selbstbestimmung unberührbarer Arbeit am Beispiel der Wäscher von Banaras (Indien)

Kombai S. Anwar, Director, Yaadhum. A Tamil Muslim’s Journey in Search of His Roots and Identity

Kritik der neomythischen Vernunft. Neomythen der beruhigten Endlichkeit

Körper in Bewegung. Sport in islamisch geprägten Kontexten

La causalité selon al-Ḥākim al-Ğišumī

Language policy and language conflict in Afghanistan and its neighbors : the changing politics of language choice / ed. by Harold F. Schiffman (Brill's studies in South and Southwest Asian languages ; 2)

Language variegation across the Pamir-Hindukush-Karakoram. Perceptions and mobilities

Le culte de l’imam Husayn chez les Khojas ismaéliens âghâ khânî-s dans la deuxième moitié du XIXe siècle

Le forme della censura religiosa nell’Egitto moderno. Il caso di Awlād Ḥāratinā (1959) di Nağīb Maḥfūẓ (1911-2006)

Les manuscrits du sud de la vallée de l'Indus en écriture khojkī sindhī. État des lieux et perspectives

Living with Patriarchy and Poverty. Women's Agency and the Spatialities of Gender Relations in Afghanistan

Local Governments and Urban Service Delivery

Local Pasts. Space, Emotions and Identities in Vernacular Histories of Princely Rampur

Love and compassion for the community. Emotions and practices among North Indian Muslims, c. 1870-1930

Making a living in Varanasi. Social place and socio-economic space

Mediating Mobile Transitions. The Tablighi Jama‘at and the International Islamic University between Pakistan and Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan)

Medicine in context. Towards a social and cultural anthropology of medicine(s) in an interconnected world

Menschenrechte in Nordafrika. Ernüchterung macht sich breit

Mobilizing Conflict Testimony. A Lens of Mobility for the Study of Documentary Practices in the Kashmir Conflict

Modernity in the Ninth Century. The Controversy around Abū Tammām

More than Subversion. Four Strategies for the Dominated

Moving citizens. Citizenship practices among Polish migrants in Norway and the United Kingdom

Muslime im säkularen Rechtsstaat. Zur Problematik des Integrationsimperativs

Nahöstliche Philosophie transregional. Eine ideengeschichtlich informierte Komparatistik

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“

Nōršēn – ein anatolisch-arabischer Dialekt der Sason-Muş-Gruppe

Of Traditional Protectors and Modern Men. Engendering a Youth Gang in East Timor

Opposition Dynamism Under Authoritarianism. The Case of Yemen, 1994-2011

Peacebuilding and Pasture Relations in Afghanistan

Periodization and the Political. Abdallah Laroui's Analysis of Temporalities in a Postcolonial Context

Philological Vignettes from (Near) East to West

Pierre Vogel’s and Bilal Philips’s Criticisms of Jihadism

Playing Cosmopolitan. Muslim Self-Fashioning, Migration, and (Be-)Longing in the Tajik-Dubai Business

Pluralität ohne Beliebigkeit. Ernst Cassirers Beitrag zum Dialog der Religionen

Polish migration within Europe. Mobility, transnationalism and integration

Political bargaining and violent conflict. Shifting elite alliances as the decisive factor in Yemen’s transformation

Pre-Modern Arabic Philologists. Poetry's Friend or Foes?

Prelude to victory in neo-traditional Turkish oil wrestling. Sense perceptions, aesthetics and performance

Producing Healthy Citizens. Encouraging Participation in Ladies-Only Kickboxing

Prof. Dr. Ehud R. Toledano ile Osmanlı’da Kölecilik ve Afro-Türkler Üzerine Bir Söyleşi

Propagating Mu'tazilism in the VIth/XIIth Century Zaydiyya. The Role of al-Hasan al-Rassās

Provincializing and and Localizing Core-Periphery Relations

Provincializing concepts. The language of transnational history

Qurʾānic studies and historical-critical philology. The Qurʾān’s staging, penetrating and eclipsing of biblical tradition

Race, Islamophobia and the Politics of Citizenship in Post-Unification Germany

Racialising Religion in the Debate on Religious Freedom in Malaysia

Raconter l’ivresse à l’époque mamelouke. Les mangeurs de haschich comme motif littéraire

Recent Scholarship in the Field of kalām

Reclaiming “Manliness”. Reflections on growing up in Delhi

Reforming Tradition and Traditions of Reform in Muslim South Asia

Refugees, Locals, and “The” State. Property Compensation in the Province of Izmir Following the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange of 1923

Religion and Emotion in African Cities. Analyzing Affective Trajectories

Remodeling Nigerian Democracy. Re-reading al-Ṭabaqah al-‘Ulyā (The Upper Class)

Renegotiating Indonesian secularism through debates on Ahmadiyya and Shia

Review of "Makers of Islamic Civilization: Ibn Khaldun" by Syed Farid Alatas

Review of "The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khan" edited by Yasmin Saikia and M. Raisur Rahman

Review of Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West. Tracing the Emergence of Medieval Europe, by Daniel G. König

Review of Bachour, Natalia: Oswaldus Crollius und Daniel Sennert im frühneuzeitlichen Istanbul

Review of Die Anden : ein geographisches Porträt by Axel Borsdorf; Christoph Stadel

Review of Dijk, Kees van: Pacific strife. The great powers and their political and economic rivalries in Asia and the Western Pacific, 1870 - 1914 (Global Asia ; 5)

Review of Felder, Ulrich, Apophatik als Lösungsformel für den interreligiösen Dialog? Würzburg 2012; und Nah, David S., Christian Theology and Religious Pluralism, Cambridge 2013

Review of Gräbel, Carsten: Die Erforschung der Kolonien : Expeditionen und koloniale Wissenskultur deutscher Geographen, 1884 - 1919

Review of Kishwar Rizvi, The Transnational Mosque. Architecture and Historical Memory in the Contemporary Middle East

Review of Mardsen, Magnus: Trading Worlds. Afghan merchants across modern frontiers

Review of Mouton, J.-M./D. Sourdel/J. Sourdel-Thomine: Gouvernance et libéralités de Saladin d'après les données inédites de six documents arabes (avec un appendice de Jean Richard), Paris 2015

Review of Paul Wenzel Geissler (Hg.), "Para-States and Medical Science: making African global health". Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2015, 369 pp

Review of Rhea Marie Richter: Frauensport in Kenia. Laufsportkultur zwischen Kenia und den USA

Review of Wei Weng Hew, Chinese Ways of Being Muslim. Negotiating Ethnicity and Religiosity in Indonesia

Review of Zeynep Çelik, About Antiquities: Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire (Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2016). Pp. 282. $85.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781477310199

Review of Ziegenbalg, Bartholomäus: Tamil Language for Europeans. Ziegenbalg's Grammatica Damulica (1716). 2010

Review symposium of "Do Muslim Women Need Saving?

Revisiting Sir Syed’s Early Religious Writings

Rustic Releases

Sayyids and Social Stratification of Muslims in Colonial India. Genealogy and Narration of the Past in Amroha

Seventeenth-Century Islamic Teaching in Medina. The Life, Circle, and Forum of Ahmad al-Qushashi

Shifting Epistemologies in Area Studies. From Space to Scale

Shifting the Gaze. Ein Plädoyer für andere Fragen

Sleepy Side Alleys, Dead Ends, and the Perpetuation of Eurocentrism

Social Capital, Morality and the Politics of Urbanidad. The Case of Sidewalk Clearing Operations in an Urban Space

Sociocultures of Southeast Asia. Between History, Area and Social Studies

Sport and nationalism in the Republic of Turkey

Sprachliche Imagination im Film. Tapori Hindi und die Verwendung sprachlicher Register im populären indischen Kino

Srpska vojska u osmanlijskim štampanim i rukopisnim izvorima (1881-1915)

State and Religion. Considering Indonesian Islam as Model of Democratisation for the Muslim World

Studentisches Forschen in Not- und Sammelunterkünften für Geflüchtete

Subverting 'Formalised' Ethics through Mainstreaming Critical Research Ethics and a Responsive Review Process

Tea for Interreligious Harmony?. Cause Marketing as a New Field of Experimentation with Visual Secularity in India

The Arabic Anonymous in a World Classic (Acronym: AnonymClassic). Presentation of a Research Project

The Bohra Manuscript Treasury as a Sacred Site of Philology. A Study in Social Codicology

The Dead are Coming. Acts of Citizenship at Europe’s Borders

The Ecology of Pastoralism

The Emotional, Political, and Analytical Labor of Engaged Anthropology Amidst Violent Political Conflict

The Institutionalization of Mobility. Well-being and Social Hierarchies in Central Asian Translocal Livelihoods

The Jewish and Muslim Reception of ʿAbd al-Jabbār’s Kitāb al-Jumal wa-l-ʿuqūd. A Survey of Relevant Sources

The Manufacturing of Islamic Lifestyles in Tajikistan through the Prism of Dushanbe's Bazaars

The Muslim Researcher. Reflections on Insider / Outsider Research in Indonesia

The Obligation of Zakat in the Qur'an and the Challenges of its Local Interpretation in Northern Nigeria

The Perfect Man in the Literary Opus of John Climacus and Ibn Arabi

The Politics of Imagining (in) Urdu in Contemporary India

The Rediscovery of the Balkans?. A Bosniak-Turkish Figuration in the Third Space Between Istanbul and Sarajevo

The Social Production of Space and Emotions in South Asia

The Successful Life of Qurbon Amirqulov. Memories of Leadership in the Southern Periphery of Uzbekistan

The Sudanese women’s movement and the mobilisation for the 2008 legislative quota and its aftermath

The Tasaday Twenty Four Years After. Insights on Ethnicity and the Rights Framework

The Theory of Literary Genre. Pedagogical Categorization or Cultural Positionality?

The art of not seeing like a state. On the ideology of ’informality’

The blind spots of liberal citizenship and integration policy

The formal side of informality. Non-bureaucratic organisation, pride and ethnography among Uyghur traders

The stadium and the city. Sports infrastructure in late imperial Ethiopia and beyond

The writing of lives. An ethnography of writers and their milieus in Alexandria

Theologische Anthropologie

There will be Blood. Expectation and Ethics of Violence during Egypt’s Stormy Season

Tod und Vergessen in Kaschgar. Adolph Schlagintweits tragisches Ende und das Schicksal seines Denkmals

Tracing Ibn Ṭūlūn’s Autograph Corpus, with Emphasis on the 19th–20th Centuries

Transforming Houses. The Changing Concept of the House in Kashgar

Translocal Ethics. Hizmet Teachers and the Formation of Gülen-inspired Schools in Urban Tanzania

Travelling Islam. Madrasa Graduates from India and Pakistan in the Malay Archipelago

Turkey's Summer of Love and the Art of Political Protest

Turkifying Poverty, or: the Phantom Pain of Izmir’s Lost Christian Working Class, 1924–26

Turning Therapies. Placing Medical Diversity

Umbenennung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde e.V. in Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie e.V. am 6. Oktober 2017 in Berlin

Unpacking 'Youth' and 'Religiosity' in J. Cornelio's Being Catholic in Contemporary Philippines

Unpacking the Effects of Repression. The Evolution of Islamist Repertoires of Contention in Egypt after the Fall of President Morsi

Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi

Verlust, Erinnerung, Versöhnung. Repräsentationen des Kaschmirkonflikts und des Exils der Kashmiri-Pandits in der Megha-Episode von Onirs „I am“

Von "Neuen Zeiten" und "Neuen Körpern". Fitness im kaiserlichen Äthiopien (1940er-1970er)

What is Preservation? Diversifying Engagement with the Middle East's Material Past. How to View the Parthenon through the Camera Obscura of the Tortoise

Women Remembering the Prophet's Birthday. Maulid Celebrations and Religious Emotions Among the Alawiyin Community in Palembang, Indonesia

Wrestling in multifarious modernity

Wüstenblume und Falke für Abu Dhabi. Schweizer Entwürfe einer identitätsstiftenden Architektur der 1970er Jahre

Zersplitterung ist die größte Schwäche. Warum die Christen in Syrien nie mit einer Stimme sprechen konnten

Zur Geschichte der Christen Syriens. Ein integraler Bestandteil der orientalischen Gesellschaft

Zur Produktion loyaler Staatsbürger. Einbürgerungstests als Instrument der Regulierung von religiös-kultureller Pluralität in Deutschland

Zwischen Reformversprechen und Status Quo. Frauen in Saudi-Arabien

al-Luġa al-arabiyya fī al-madāris al-hukūmiyya fī Nīğīrīā. taṭawwuruhā wa-mustaqbaluhā

À propos de l'attribution du ms. Ambrosiana ar. F 122, fol. 35b. Un fragment d’un texte zaydite du Yémen

الوجه المظلم للتّأويل

‘Denn Gott bin ich und nicht ein Mensch’ (Hosea 11,9). Zur verhängnisvollen Allianz von Religion und Gewalt

“Someone to Check Her a Bit”. Feminine Abandon and the Abducted Woman in Shorey Comedies

“in situ: the counterindications of world heritage"

The Hand that Rocks the Cradle is the Hand that Rules the World. An Analysis of Muḥammad Quṭb's Portrayal of Feminism as a Jewish Conspiracy

A History of Jeddah. The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture. The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī

Al-Ḥīra. Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im spätantiken Kontext

Arab Revolutions and Beyond. Change and Persistence

Denkraum Spätantike. Reflexionen von Antiken im Umfeld des Koran

Der Islam in Indonesien nach 1998. Am Beispiel der Partai Keadilan Sejahtera

Der Vordere Orient und Nordafrika ab 1500

Die Erneuerung der Tiǧānīya in Mauretanien. Popularisierung religiöser Ideen in der Kolonialzeit

Esprit civique et organisation citadine dans l'empire ottoman (XVe-XXe siècles)

Faszinierungsprozesse. Religiös motivierte und geschlechtsspezifisch geformte Reaktionen junger Menschen auf islamische Predigten

Global conceptual history. A reader

Guidance (Uwongozi) by Sheikh al-Amin Mazrui. Selections from the first Swahili Islamic newspaper

Hatta yantahi al-naft. Al-hijra wa-l-ahlam fi dawahi al-Khalij

Im Zentrum der Peripherie. Über Muslimisches Leben in Südostasien

Imām Yaḥyā Ḥamīd ad-Dīn und die Juden in Ṣanʿāʾ (1904 - 1948). Die Dimension von Schutz (Dhimma) in den Dokumenten der Sammlung des Rabbi Sālim b. Saʿīd al-Ǧamal

Islam, Sufism and everyday politics of belonging in South Asia

Islamic courts and women's divorce rights in Indonesia. The cases of Cianjur and Bulukumba

Kant in Teheran

Kitāb al-Tafṣīl li-jumal al-Taḥṣīl. Facsimile Edition of MS Glaser no. 51, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. With Introductions and Indices by Hassan Ansari and Jan Thiele

Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation

Koranforschung - eine politische Philologie?. Bibel, Koran und Islamentstehung im Spiegel spätantiker Textpolitik und moderner Philologie

Kritische Gesamtausgabe der Werke von Hans Jonas. Metaphysische und religionsphilosophische Schriften

Le culte de l’imam Husayn chez les Khojas ismaéliens âghâ khânî-s à la fin du XIXe siècle.

Lexicon of Jewish Names in Late Antiquity. Part IV: The Eastern Diaspora 330 BCE-650 CE

Making a living in Varanasi. Social place and socio-economic space

Mapping Popular Perceptions. Security, Insecurity and Police Work in Yemen

Mapping transition in the Pamirs. With case studies on the changing human-environmental landscapes

Medieval Damascus. Plurality and Diversity in an Arabic library

Migrant Dreams. Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States

One year on the scene. Contemporary art in Indonesia

Ottoman Painting. Reflections of Western Art from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic

Pamirian Crossroads. Kirghiz and Wakhi of High Asia

Pamirs at the Crossroads. Changing challenges and perspectives

Politics of Honor in Ottoman Anatolia. Sexual Violence and Socio-Legal Surveillance in the Eighteenth Century

Preaching Islamic Revival in East Africa

Qurʼanic studies today.

Race, religion, and the "Indian Muslim" predicament in Singapore

Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa. Saving Souls, Prolonging Lives.

Repressing Egypt’s Civil Society. State Violence, Restriction of the Public Sphere, and Extrajudicial Persecution

Researching Muslim Societies.: Inside and outside ZMO.

Sayfo 1915. An Anthology of Essays on the Genocide of Assyrians/Arameans during the First World War

Scripture, Poetry, and the Making of a Community. Reading the Qurʼan as a Literary Text

Slomo Surayt - An introductory Course to Surayt-Aramaic (Turoyo)

Slomo Surayt - Ein Einführungskurs ins Surayt-Aramäische (Turoyo)

Social Justice through Citizenship?. The Politics of Muslim Integration in Germany and Great Britain

Swahili Muslim publics and postcolonial experience

The Construction of Masculinities and Violence. "Youth Gangs" in Dili, East Timor

The Failure of the Transitional Process in Yemen. The Houthi’s Violent Rise to Power and the Fragmentation of the State

The First of the Modern Ottomans. The Intellectual History of Ahmed Vâsıf

The Lawful Empire. Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia

The Life and Times of Abū Tammām

The Life and Times of Abū Tammām

The Rise of the Arabic Book

Wakhan Quadrangle. Exploration and Espionage During and After the Great Game

Wenn die Waffen sprechen. Ursachen, Auslöser und Folgen des Bürgerkriegs in Libyen

West African ʿulamāʾ and Salafism in Mecca and Medina. Jawāb al-Ifrīqī - The Response of the African

What is "Islamic" Art? Between Religion and Perception

When Fishing is No Longer Viable. Environmental Change, Unfair Market Relations and Livelihood in a Small Fishing Community in the Philippines

Wissensvermittlung im Gespräch. Eine Studie zu klassisch-arabischen Dialogen

Yemen: CGC Roadmap to Nowhere. Elite Bargaining and Political Infighting Block a Meaningful Transition

Youth and Globalization in Central Asia. Everyday Life between Religion, Media, and International Donors

Zwei arabische Dialoge zur Alchemie. Die Unterredung des Aristoteles mit dem Inder Yūhīn und das Lehrgespräch der Alchemisten Qaydarūs und Mītāwus mit dem König Marqūnus

al-Shattat al-hadhrami: Tujjar, 'ulama', wa-rijal dawla. Hadharim fi al-muhit al-hindi 1750 - 1960

Ḥadīt. Eine Einführung in die Geschichte und Textsorten

Newspapers & Blogs

"Islam ist ein neues Element deutscher Kultur". Gudrun Krämer wird für ihre Forschung ausgezeichnet: Die Wissenschaftlerin schrieb unter anderem die "Geschichte des Islam".

"Verständigung beruht auf Verständnis". Forschungszentrum zur Geistesgeschichte der islamischen Welt an der Freien Universität eröffnet

Al-afʿā wa-sardiyāt al-ḫalq. Ādam, Ǧilǧāmiš, Hayy Ibn Yaqẓān

Al-ḏāt min al-taṣawwuf ila al-raqamiyya. 'Hayy Ibn Yaqẓān' li-Ibn Ṭufayl unmūḏaǧan

Annäherungen an den Islam. Die Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies plant für die kommende Runde der Exzellenzinitiative

Auszeichnung der Einsteinstiftung

Islam: Der rechte Glaube und der Rechtsstaat

Authoritarian Middle East regimes don't like acedmics - ask Matthew Hedges

Berlin Graduate School "Muslim Cultures and Societies" feierlich eröffnet. Festakt im Museum für Islamische Kunst in Berlin

Mehr als eine Nebengeschichte. Frauenrechte, Rollenbilder und Geschlechterpolitik in Ägypten

Convergent Authoritarianisms in Egypt and Turkey

Das Königshaus mit neuer Mission

Den Kampf der Kulturen bekämpfen. Die Berlin Graduate School „Muslim cultures and societies“ bildet Fachleute für islamisch geprägte Gesellschaften aus. Weit über 100 junge Wissenschaftler haben sich beworben, 15 Doktoranden werden im April ausgewählt

Der Einfluss des Islam. Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies mit Festakt im Pergamon-Museum eröffnet

"Brot, Freiheit, Würde". Experten warnen davor, den Arabischen Frühling schon für gescheitert zu erklären.

Doktor werden mit System. Von wegen einsame Forschung: Graduiertenschulen bieten Austausch und kompetente Betreuung

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

Essay on Sabah Mahmoud's "Religious Difference in a Secular Age. A Minority Report"

Forfeiting the Future. Pakistan's crisis can't simply be explained by religion

Forschen über den Islam in aller Welt. Seit zehn Jahren bildet die „Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies“ Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden aus. Im Fokus stehen dabei auch aktuelle Themen aus Politik und Gesellschaft

Auf den Spuren des arabischen Antisemitismus

Islamforscher sind im permanenten Stresstest

Theologie kann Religionswissenschaft nicht ersetzen

Gregory I. McIntosh ile söyleşi

Houthis on the Rise in Yemen

Ein Jahr nach Husni Mubaraks Sturz

„Die Mauer der Angst ist gefallen“

„Ahmadiyya ist kooperativ“

"Die Deutschen haben ein einseitiges Islambild". Sie ist Deutschlands renommierteste Islamwissenschaftlerin und besonders gefragt, wenn es darum geht, den selbst ernannten Experten à la Sarrazin und Broder zu widersprechen

"Die Scharia ist kein feststehender Kodex"

"Hier wird ein Monster kreiert"

"Koran-Verbrennungen sind nicht entschuldbar". Die Islamwissenschaftlerin Gudrun Krämer über die Frage, wie berechtigt der Volkszorn ist

Aufklärung wäre wünschenswert

Eine Distanzierung von den Dschihadisten ist nicht genug

Was spaltet die Muslime?. Forscherin über Sunniten und Schiiten

"Warum stört es, wenn eine Frau sich bedeckt?"

Iran's Small Hand in Yemen

Krieg im Jemen. Regionale Akteure und die Fragmentierung des Staates

Menschenrechte in Ägypten. Die ausgeblendete Krise

Mittler zwischen Orient und Okzident

Peace and State Fragmentation in Yemen

Prof. Dr. Werner Schiffauer zu Gast an der Freien Universität

Raus aus dem Containerdenken

Rethinking Muslim Politics. The Rampuri Experience

Stresstest für Salafisten

The Case of Falling Walls. Politics of Demolition and Preservation in Rampur

The Case of Falling Walls. Politics of Demolition and Preservation in Rampur

The Falah School in Jeddah. Civic Engagement for Future Generations?

The UAE is weakening it's partnership with the Saudis in Yemen. Here’s why that matters

Travel: A Post-Covid-19 Fantasy

Two years ago nationalism sparked major protests in Egypt. Could it happen again?

Vom Wanderprediger zum globalen Netzwerker. Doktorandin der Freien Universität untersucht die islamische Gülen-Bewegung in Deutschland und Tansania

Was dem Islam zur Moderne fehlt. Die Freiheitsbewegung in der arabischen Welt hat das Bild vom Islam in den westlichen Demokratien entscheidend verändert. Und doch bleiben Zweifel: Ist der Islam wirklich bereit für die Moderne? Eine öffentliche Vorlesungsreihe geht dieser Frage nach.

Weisheiten aus der Kalifenzeit. Leibniz-Preis für Beatrice Gründler

Weltkulturerbe Dschidda ist ein Signal für die Zukunft

Who do we condem? Whose lives matter?

al-waǧh al-muẓlim li-l-taʾwīl

„Jedes Bild und jeder Gegenstand erzählt eine Geschichte“. Bis 29. Januar: von Doktoranden der "Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies" kuratierte Ausstellung mit Fotos und Objekten aus dem Alltag von Muslimen

Allying beyond Social Divides. Coalitions and Contentious Politics in the Middle East and North Africa

Being and Becoming. Imagination, Memory, and Violence in the Southern Philippines

Cosmopolitanism in a Global Perspective

Der zwölferschiitische Martyriumsdiskurs im Iran des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts

Feeling communities

Imām Yaḥyā Ḥamīd ad-Dīn und die Juden in Ṣanʿāʾ (1904 - 1948). Die Dimension von Schutz (Dhimma) in den Dokumenten der Sammlung des Rabbi Sālim b. Saʿīd al-Ǧamal

Mediated Politics and the Populist Political Style

Minority pasts. The other histories of a "Muslim locality", Rampur 1889-1949

Neue Wege der Begriffsgeschichte

Preserving Yemen's Cultural Heritage: The Yemen Manuscript Digitization Project

The Architecture of Everyday Life in Twentieth Century Jiddah

The Bohra Dark Archive and the language of secrecy. A codicological ethnography of the Royal ʿAlawī Bohra Library in Baroda

The Dakwah Media in Post Suharto Indonesia. From Politics of Identity to Popular Culture

To Whom Belong the Streets? Property, Propriety, and Appropriation. The Production of Public Space in Late Ottoman Damascus, 1875-1914

Weltgeschichtsschreibung zwischen Schia und Sunna. Ḫvāndamīrs (gest. 1535/6) Ḥabīb as-siyar und seine Rezeption im Handschriftenzeitalter

Wer schafft das? Neue Akteurskonstellationen im Engagement für Geflüchtete

Ḏimma-Raum. Imam Yaḥyā Ḥamid al-Dīn, die Juden von San'a und die Praxis islamischen Rechts im zaiditischen Jemen

Published Dissertations

Ahmad al-Tijânî de Fès. Un sanctuaire soufi aux connexions transnationales

Die Erben des Malcolm X. Afroamerikanische Muslime zwischen Widerstand und Anpassung

Dār Al-Islām Revisited. Territoriality in Contemporary Islamic Legal Discourse on Muslims in the West

Geschichte als Widerstand. Geschichtsschreibung und nation-building in Qaḏḏāfīs Libyen

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya and the Divine Attributes. Rationalized Traditionalistic Theology

Kausalität in der Mu'tazilitischen Kosmologie. Das Kitāb al-Mu'aththirāt wa-miftāḥ al-muškilāt des Zayditen al-Ḥasan ar-Raṣṣāṣ (st. 584/1188)

Managing Piety. The Shrine of Data Ganj Bakhsh

Minding Their Place. Space and Religious Hierarchy in Ibn al-Qayyim's Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma

Mobilität und Zeugenschaft. Unabhängige Dokumentarfilmpraktiken und der Kaschmirkonflikt

Nahrungsmittel in der arabischen Medizin. Das Kitāb al-Aġdhiya wa-l-ašriba des Naǧīb ad-Dīn as-Samarqandī

New Islamic Urbanism. The Architecture of Public and Private Space in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Philanthropie in Saudi-Arabien. Bestandsaufnahme und Untersuchung der organisierten wohltätigen Praxis in Djidda, Saudi-Arabien

Picturing the Islamicate World. The Story of al-Iṣṭakhrī's Book of Routes and Realms

Religioscapes in Muslim Indonesia. Personalities, Institutions and Practices

The dowry of the state? The Politics of Abandoned Property and the Population Exchange in Turkey, 1921-1945

The Jurist and the Theologian. Speculative theology in Shafi`i Legal theory

Theologie in der jemenitischen Zaydiyya. Die naturphilosophischen Überlegungen des al-Ḥasan ar-Raṣṣāṣ

Unsere neuen Geschwister. Konversion zum Islam in Malaysia am Beispiel chinesischer Muslime in Penang

Waren Welt Islam. Konsumkultur und Warenästhetik in Syrien 2000−2011

Zwanzig Jahre Alltag. Lebens-, Welt- und Selbstbild im Journal des Ahmad Ibn Tawq

Radio & Television

"Die Kultur der Ambiguität. Eine andere Geschichte des Islams"

Arabische Dichtung

Aufklärung transregional

Buchkultur und Wissensvermittlung

Das Tor zu Mekka

Der Kadi und seine Zeugen

Die Ilkhaniden (Mongolen)

Die Welt nachschlagen

die diskussion. History Live

Eine ungewöhnliche Perspektive des Korans. Angelika Neuwirth: „Der Koran als Text der Spätantike. Ein europäischer Zugang“, Verlag der Weltreligionen

Gebundene Schönheit

Himmel und Hölle

Imperium ohne Geltungsdrang

„Ist Mubarak Freitag weg, oder fließt Freitag Blut?“. Politologin Cilja Harders zu den Motiven der ägyptischen Demonstranten

Große Themen, keine Meinung - Ist die Angst vor dem Islam berechtigt oder nicht?

Klammern, ohne eine ernsthafte Perspektive zu bieten. Ägyptens Präsident hat laut Islamwissenschaftlerin keinen Veränderungswillen

Macht der Muslimbrüder. Islamwissenschaftlerin über Ägypten und den Umgang mit seinem Staatsoberhaupt

Im inneren Kreis der Gülen-Bewegung

"Politische Lösungen im Jemen werden wahrscheinlicher"

Die Burka als europäisches Streitobjekt. Islamwissenschaftliche Einschätzungen zur Verschleierungsdebatte

Frankreichs Fehler mit dem Islam

I am Ahmed: Muslim assimilation in Europe

Abdullah war ein konservativer Modernisierer

Saudi-Arabien: Peitschenhiebe für Blogger

Wie soll die Gesellschaft mit Radikalen umgehen?

Wohin steuert Saudi-Arabien?

Zum Tod König Abdullah ibn Abd al-Aziz von Saudi Arabien

„Saudi-Arabien hat Bedrohung durch IS erkannt“

Islamisches Recht

Jemen: Humanitäre Katastrophe wird sich eher verschlechtern

Khondamir schreibt Geschichte…um

Lehren und Lernen (8.-15. Jh.)

Multaka: Treffpunkt Museum

Museum für Islamische Kunst

Notizbuch eines Webers

Denken und Sprache

"Die iranische Moderne" und der Westen: Philosophischer Diskurs in Berlin

Stadtgeschichte aus Biographien

Stigmatisierung in Deutschland. Der Rassismus tobt nicht nur am rechten Rand

Tell me a History

Von den Griechen lernen

“Der Koran als Text der Spätantike”

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