Field: Arabic Language and Literature

Areas of Research: Classical Arabic literature in its social context; the application of literary theory in Classical Arabic literature; the history of the Arabic languages; Arabic media and book culture; Arabic paleography

First supervisor of completed PhD projects:

The Bohra Dark Archive and the Language of Secrecy: A Codicological Ethnography of the Royal  ͑Alawī Bohra Library in Baroda (Olly Akkerman)

Das Leiden der Anderen - Einordnung, Interpretation und koloniale Dimensionen lybischer Lagerdichtung (Jonas Müller-Laackman)

The Banisher of Madness: An Interpretation of Language as the Vessel of All Truth Sacred and Profane in the Teachings of Ibn al-Sarrāj of Baghdad (Dunja Rašić)

First supervisor of current PhD projects:

Die Poetik als Teil eines philosophischen Wissenschaftssystems: Der Poetik-Kommentar Ibn Sinas in seiner Summa "Die Genesung der Seele" (Ali Sakr)

Intersecting Possible Effects: Cultural Trajectories in the Maqamat of Yoruba Scholars (Sulaiman Alagunfon)

The scribes of Arabic manuscripts. A historical and codicological study (Yousry Elseadawy)

Untranslatability and the ineffability of voice in Arabic literature (Asmaa Essakouti)

Techniques and Legacies of al-Suyūṭī's Muzhir (Ingrid Austveg Evans)

Multilingual Authors: Women Writers in Palestinian Literary History in Israel (1948-) (Izza Abu Haija)