Alumni Doctoral Fellows
Dauda Abubakar
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Religion and Philosophy, Federal University of Jos, Nigeria
Anthropology
Dr. Zubair Ahmad (Year 2015)
The History of the Present: A Postcolonial Genealogy of Germany's Politics of Islam
Olly Akkerman
Lecturer and Research Associate at Institute of Islamic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Arabic Studies
Dr. Müge Akpinar
"In Quest of Lost Remedy": Body, Health and Identity in an Islamic Medicine Inspired Healing Movement in Turkey
Dr. Sulaiman Adewale Alagunfon
Intersecting Possible Effects: Cultural Trajectories in the Maqamat of Yoruba Scholars
Sarah Albrecht
Research Coordinator for Theology and Interreligious Dialogue, Evangelical Academy Berlin
Dr. Muhammed Niyas Ashraf (Year 2015)
Entanglements of Print Culture and Trajectories of Community Formation: Mappila Muslims of Kerala, 1867 - 1956
Mareike Beez
Islamic Studies
Philip Bockholt
Junior Professor for History of the Turkish-Persian World at the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies
Antonia Bosanquet
research associate (Post-Doc) in the DFG Center for Advanced Study "RomanIslam – Center for Comparative Empire and Transcultural Studies"
Islamic Studies
Janine Budich
Political Science
Gregory Thomas Carlock
Arabic Studies
Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo
Postdoctoral Researcher at the IAAW, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dr. Lucía Cirianni Salazar (Year 2016)
Coping with Closure. Pasts and Fates of the Turkish Tekkes
Nadja Danilenko
Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence "Understanding Written Artefacts", Universität Hamburg
danilenko@bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de; nadja.danilenko@uni-hamburg.de
Nora Derbal
Postdoctoral research fellow at the Martin Buber Society of Fellows
Dina El-Sharnouby
Political Science
Dr. Zeynep Ertuğrul
(Gerda Henkel Doctoral Fellow)
Preaching the Republic: The Spokespeople of the Single-Party Regime in Turkey
Dr. Asmaa Essakouti
Realms of Strangers: Readers, Language, and Trickery in Maqāmāt al-Ḥarīrī
Markus Fiebig (Year 2013)
Mosque education in inner northwestern China between tradition and modernity
Chorshanbe Goibnazarov
Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, School of Arts and Sciences; Research Fellow at UCA’s Cultural Heritage and Humanities Unit
Central Asian Studies
Jannis Julien Grimm
Regional Coordinator for Trade Unions and Social Justice in the Middle East and North Africa / Libya Policy Analyst for the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Political Science
Veronika Hager
“Thinking about the Ottoman Empire in the Early Republic of Turkey”
Dr. Clemens Holzgruber
Jihadi-Salafism Contested. Analysing Jihadi-Salafi Debates on Belief, Jihad, and Islamic Governance
Kerstin Hünefeld
Fellow at Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Islamic Studies
Dr. Yasmin Ismail
The anglophone maktab: an ethnographic study of language, religious education and identity in minority Muslim communities
Dr. Wikke Jansen
Negotiating the Relationship between Gender, Sexuality and Religion in Indonesia
Alina Kokoschka
Islamic Studies
Jakob Krais
Islamic Studies
Max Kramer
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Volkswagen Freigeist project "The Populism of the Precarious: Marginalization, Mobilization, and Mediatization of South Asia's Religious Minorities"
Islamic Studies
Dr. Miriam Kurz (Year 2015-2022)
Mosque Space(s) in Berlin: Configurations of Gender in Social Practice and the Constitution of Islamic Spaces. An Ethnographic Study
Stefan Maneval
Visiting Professor of Islamic and Middle East Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
Ellinor Morack
Akademische Rätin at the University of Bamberg, Turkish Studies
Hanna Nieber
Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle
Religious Studies
Anton Nikolotov
Central Asian Studies
Dr. Barbara Ogbone (Year 2011)
The impact of as-safar lil-ʿilm – translocal migration in search of religious education among Togolese Muslims
Miriam Ovadia
Islamic Studies
Arie Setyaningrum Pamungkas
Southeast Asian Studies
Jasmijn Rana
Assistant Professor at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology
Anthropology
Dr. Benedikt Reier
Archive Fever in Egypt and Syria: The Social Logic and Use of Biographical Dictionaries in the Mamluk Period (1250-1517 CE)
Mahabat Sadyrbek
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Max-Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Central Asia Studies
Dr. Rustam Samadov
Life, work and religious networks of Tajik labour migrants: How emigration changes traditional solidarity structures in Tajikistan
Thomas Schad
Southeast European History
Eva Christine Schmidt
Political Science
Saskia Schäfer
Head of the Freigeist Research Project "Secularity, Islam, and Democracy in Indonesia and Turkey"
Katrin Simon
Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Islamic Studies
Besnik Sinani
Associated Researcher, "Post-Salafism: The Contestation of Contemporary Saudi Salafism"
Islamic Studies
Ruth Streicher
Political Science
Adela Taleb (Year 2014)
Transcending national boundaries. The role of the EU and pan-European Muslim organisations in the discursive field of "European Islam".
Dr. Mareike Transfeld (Year 2015)
Working Title: The New Yemen(s): (Re-)Imagining National Identity, Geography and State on Facebook (2011-2016)
Dr. André Weißenfels (Year 2016)
Products of Work: Hybrid Subjectivities of Employees in Tunisia
Dr. Salwa Yahya
(Gerda Henkel Doctoral Fellow)
Caste-based Muslim claims on the Indian state: a study of the Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz