The Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies was funded by the German Research Foundation from 2007 to 2019 through the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments. 

Since 2016, the DAAD has provided us with two doctoral scholarships a year for international doctoral students through the Graduate School Scholarship Programme.

The Einstein Foundation Berlin has awarded our structured doctoral program with the Einstein Award for Doctoral Programs "Summa Cum Laude" in 2018. Funding from the prize money runs from 2019 to 2021. 

Since 2018, the Gerda Henkel Foundation has funded two doctoral scholarships for doctoral students in our programme each year. 

Since 2019, the Fritz Thyssen Foundation is supporting a postdoctoral position at the Graduate School. 

In 2018 and 2019, supervisors of the Graduate School won the Dahlem Research School Award for Excellent Supervision.