Dr. Nadja Danilenko completed her doctoral thesis “Picturing the Islamicate World in the Tenth Century. The Story of al-Iṣṭaḫrī’s Book of Routes and Realms” in Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin in April 2018. Her research focuses on the history of cartography and the history of knowledge, with a special focus on manuscript studies.

For her podcast “tell me a history – erzähl mir eine Geschichte, Nadja interviews German scholars on the history and culture of the Islamicate world; 13 episodes available on www.tellmeahistory.net, iTunes and in podcast apps.