Doctoral Fellows
Year 2020
Izza Abu Haija
(Einstein Doctoral Fellow)
Multilingual Authors: Women Writers in Palestinian Literary History in Israel (1948-)
Deborshi Chakraborty
(Gerda Henkel Doctoral Fellow)
The Quest for National Identity of the Bengali Muslims: The Making of Bengali Nationalism in the Late Colonial Period (1900-1947)
Soufiane Chinig
(DAAD Doctoral Fellow)
Writing on Kingdom Walls: Narratives and acculturation in the MENA region – A comparison between Jordan and Morocco
Farid El-Ghawaby
(Gerda Henkel Doctoral Fellow)
Tracing the Paths of Islamic Manuscripts – Towards a Reconstruction of Translocated Material of the Qubbat al-Ḫazna
Constanze Fertig
(Einstein Doctoral Fellow)
Muṣallā sites and praying practices among Jordanian Bedouin (1950–today)
Aslı Gücin
Protecting the Sacred Nature of Dersim: Environmental Activism at the Margins
Anna-Kathrin Oswald
(Einstein Doctoral Fellow)
Visual Politics of Contemporary Far Right Parties. Explorations of Entanglements Between Germany's AfD and India's BJP
Muhammedali Puthoor
(DAAD Doctoral Fellow)
One party for various Muslims: AIMIM and its Muslim constituents in Hyderabad
Robin Schmahl
(Doctoral Fellow)
A Tale of Two Narratives: Deliberative Systems in Egypt during the French Military Campaign of 1798-1801 and the Inception of the Modern Middle East
Year 2019
Dilshat Amrayev
Reaction of local Egyptian population to the rule of Turkish Mamluk Sultanate. A foreign military aristocracy or defenders of Islam?
Santram Antil
Wrestling and Body Politics: Negotiations of Religious Identity among Wrestlers in North India
Elif Conker
(Gerda Henkel Doctoral Fellow)
The Transformation of the Ottoman Perception of the Wahhabi Movement: From Negotiation to Confrontation (1745-1818)
Zeynep Ertuğrul
(Gerda Henkel Doctoral Fellow)
Preaching the Republic: The Spokespeople of the Single-Party Regime in Turkey
Peyman Eshaghi
(Gerda Henkel Doctoral Fellow)
Piety, Power and Trans-imperial Relations: History and Politics of Iranian Hajj (1796 - 1925)
Binyamin Lawal
Expansion of the Sacred into the Public Space: Spatial Contestation between Muslims and Christians in Jos, Plateau State Nigeria
Tang Man
The Lifeworlds of Salar Muslims in Qinghai Considered in the Context of Chinas Belt and Road Infrastructural Project: An Existential-Anthropological Study
Year 2018
Asmaa Essakouti
Untranslatability and the ineffability of voice in Arabic literature
Vincent Favier
Preachers & Teachers: (filming) ideological performance, orders and disorders among/between Salafi, pentecostal students and teachers on the university campuses of Niamey, Niger, and Ibadan, Nigeria.
Philip Geisler
(Gerda Henkel Doctoral Fellow)
Art, Islam, and the Politics of Museum Display in the Early Twenty-First Century
Yasmin Ismail
Where is my Ummah? Understanding the influence of transnational networks on inter-Muslim relations in Southern Africa
Wikke Jansen
Negotiating the Relationship between Gender, Sexuality and Religion in Indonesia
Rustam Samadov
Life, work and religious networks of Tajik labour migrants: How emigration changes traditional solidarity structures in Tajikistan
Salwa Yahya
(Gerda Henkel Doctoral Fellow)
Caste-based Muslim claims on the Indian state: a study of the Pasmanda Muslim Mahaz
Özgür Ögütcü
(Gerda Henkel Doctoral Fellow)
From Empire to Nation State. A Comparative Analysis of the Emergence of Airspace in the 1920s-1950s Middle East
Hale Şaşmaz
(Gerda Henkel Doctoral Fellow)
Gender Politics in Regime Transition: Woman Intellectuals in the Early Republican Era (1918-1945)
Year 2017
Iskandar Ahmad Abdalla
Rendering Islam Liberal: Secularism, Sexuality and the Politics of Muslim Self-appropriation in Germany
Nayera Abdelrahman Soliman
Between Home and Nation. Forced Displacement and National Identity in post-1952 Egypt
Müge Akpinar
"In Quest of Lost Remedy": Body, Health and Identity in an Islamic Medicine Inspired Healing Movement in Turkey
Sulaiman Adewale Alagunfon
Intersecting Possible Effects: Cultural Trajectories in the Maqamat of Yoruba Scholars
Yousry Elseadawy
The scribes of Arabic manuscripts. A historical and codicological study
Alireza Hodaei
From Tbilisi to Tabriz; Muslim Intellectuals in South Caucasus and Making the Constitutional Revolution in Iran 1906-1911
Clemens Holzgruber
Jihadi-Salafism Contested. Analysing Jihadi-Salafi Debates on Belief, Jihad, and Islamic Governance
Sumrin Kalia
Muslim Identity and Civic Engagement; Exploring Pakistan’s Urban Youth Attitudes
Benedikt Reier
Archive Fever in Egypt and Syria: The Social Logic and Use of Biographical Dictionaries in the Mamluk Period (1250-1517 CE)
Dimetri Whitfield (2017-2019)
Truth in Masculinity & Muslimness: Young Men of the Ahmadiyya Jama'at in the Gambia
Year 2016
Heba Amin
Reconfigured Territories in the MENA Region: Visualized Landscapes in the Era of Digitization and Migration
Lucía Cirianni Salazar
Coping with Closure. Pasts and Fates of the Turkish Tekkes
Saidolimkhon Gaziev
The politics of gender in a colonial Islamic society: governing 'womanhood' in late 19th- and early 20th-century Russian Central Asia
Laura Hindelang (Alumna BGSMCS)
Iridescent Kuwait. Investigating the Image World of Petro-Modernity
Jovo Miladinović
Mobilization of Manpower at the End and during the Change of Empires in the Multi-Confessional Borderland "Sandjak" (1900s-1920s)
Soheb Ur-Rahman Niazi
Social Stratification at a Muslim Qasbah: The Case of Amroha in Colonial India
Bilal Sabbagh (2016 - 2017)
The Popularisation of Sufism in Zangid, Ayyubid, and early Mamluk Syria
Ali Sakr
Theory of Poetry as a Part of a Philosophical System: Avicenna’s Commentary on the Poetics of Aristotle in His Summa The Cure (Aš-Šifāʾ)
Besnik Sinani (Alumnus BGSMCS)
The Ba Alawi Sufi Order in Saudi-Arabia: State, Orthodoxy, and Deviance in Contemporary Islam
Viktor Ullmann
Interrelations between the Iranian Motion Picture Industry and International Film Festivals
André Weißenfels
Products of Work: Hybrid Subjectivities of Employees in Tunisia
Merima Šehagić (2016 - 2019)
Processes of Racialization and the Everyday. An Ethnographic account of Bosnian Muslims in Berlin
Year 2015
Zubair Ahmad
The History of the Present: A Postcolonial Genealogy of Germany's Politics of Islam
Muhammed Niyas Ashraf
Entanglements of Print Culture and Trajectories of Community Formation: Mappila Muslims of Kerala, 1867 - 1956
Mohammed Swalih Errata Parambil
Everyday Ethics: Life of Two Key Texts in the Everyday Life of Islam Among Mappilas in Contemporary Kerala, South India
Jannis Julien Grimm (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Contesting Legitimacy: Protest and the Politics of Signification in Post-Revolutionary Egypt
Miriam Kurz
Mosque Space(s) in Berlin: Configurations of Gender in Social Practice and the Constitution of Islamic Spaces. An Ethnographic Study
Christian Kübler (2015 - 2017)
Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī (1866-1914): Life, Network and Legacy of a Damascene Salafī
Jonas Müller-Laackman (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Qaṣāʾid al-Muʿtaqilīn - An Arabic branch of concentration camp literature
Dunja Rašić (Alumna BGSMCS)
The Banisher of Madness - An Interpretation of Language as the Vessel of All Truths Sacred and Profane in the Teachings of Ibn al-Sarrāj of Baghdad
Mareike Transfeld
Working Title: The New Yemen(s): (Re-)Imagining National Identity, Geography and State on Facebook (2011-2016)
Year 2014
Sara Abbas
Delivering salvation: The women of the Islamist Movement and the discourses and practices of Sudan’s Civilization(al) Project
Philip Bockholt (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Writing History in Safavid Times. Khvandamir's (d. 1535-6) General History Habib al-Siyar and its Reception in the Pre-Modern Period
Nadja Danilenko (Alumna BGSMCS)
Picturing the Islamicate World in the Tenth Century. The Story of al-Iṣṭaḫrī’s "Book of Routes and Realms”
Nicholas Gjorvad (Alumnus BGSMCS)
The 'Black Hole' of the Brotherhood: The Evolution of a Youth Group to a Political Party
Veronika Hager
“Thinking about the Ottoman Empire in the Early Republic of Turkey”
Zacky Khairul Umam
Master of Two Oceans: Mulla Ibrahim al-Kurani (d. 1690) and the Medinan School for Religious Reformism
Oriana Kochbeck (Alumna BGSMCS)
Between Isolation and Global Reception: The Figure of Muhammad Rashid Rida in the Context of the Islamic Reform Scene
Rahina Muazu (Alumna BGSMCS)
The Recited Qur’an and Vocal Nudity: Contestations over the Female Voice in the Nigerian Public Space
Adela Taleb
Transcending national boundaries. The role of the EU and pan-European Muslim organisations in the discursive field of "European Islam".
Syaifudin Zuhri (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Shrines Making and Contesting the Sacred: Muslim Pilgrimage in Contemporary Bali-Indonesia.
Year 2013
Mustafa Abulhimal (2013 - 2015)
The Home-grown Secular: Religion, Education and Language in the Writings of Abdullah al-Nadim (1843-1896)
Ezgi Canpolat (2013 - 2015)
Development Assistance, Faith-based NGOs in the Context of Turkey’s Africa Opening
Dina El-Sharnouby (Alumna BGSMCS)
What Happened to the Revolutionary Youth after the January 25th Revolution? – A Comparative Study on Egyptian Youth Groups
Markus Fiebig
Mosque education in inner northwestern China between tradition and modernity
Josephine Gehlhar (2013-2020)
The Ottoman Commentary Tradition to al-Ghazālī’s Tahāfut al-falāsifa
Nora Marianne Haakh
Strategies for Changing Stages. Contemporary Arabic Theatre and Cultural Brokering in Germany
Anton Nikolotov (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Geographies of afterlife: the futurist imaginations in the lives of Muslim market workers in Moscow.
Thomas Schad (Alumnus BGSMCS)
From Fellow Muslims into Fellow Nationals? Migrants from Yugoslavia to Turkey between demographic engineering and trans-national figurations in İstanbul and İzmir (1945 – 1990)
Eva Christine Schmidt (Alumna BGSMCS)
Gender Politics in Transition. The Role of Feminist Actors in the Tunisian Transition
Neda Soltani (2013-2020)
Memory, Displacement and National Identity: A Gendered Analysis of Iranian Diaspora in Germany
Nicola Verderame (Alumnus BGSMCS)
On the Crossroads of Modernisation and Heritage: Fountain-Building in the Late Ottoman Empire
Theresia Dyah Wirastri (Alumna BGSMCS)
Coping with Polygamy in Indonesia: Women’s Strategies to Seek Social Security in Unregistered Islamic Polygamous Marriages
Year 2012
Kamaluddin Ahmed (2012 - 2015)
Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad al-Tahawi (239/853 - 321/933) and the Formation of the Hanafi School of Law in the 9th - 10th Centuries C.E.
Ersin Cagin (2012 - 2019)
“Islamic Activism” in Transition: The Dialogue Discourse and the Contested Identity of the Gülen Movement.
Sarah Holz (Alumna BGSMCS)
Organised Religion in Pakistan: Dynamics and Change in Religious Institutions of the State.
Murtala Ibrahim (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Sensation, Sight and Sound of Nigerian Religious Movements: A Comparative Study of Christ Embassy and Nasrul lahi- Fathi Society (NASFAT).
Nursem Keskin Aksay (Alumna BGSMCS)
Religion, Class, Gender: The Emergence of "Islamic Bourgeoisie" and Middle Class Muslim Women.
Max Kramer (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Memory, Loss and Resistance: Kashmir in the independent digital documentary film.
Kristina Mashimi
Beyond Classrooms: Ethics and Education at Gülen-inspired Schools in Urban Tanzania
Juliane Müller (Alumna BGSMCS)
Food and Drink in Traditional Arabo-Islamic Medicine. The Dietetics of Naǧīb ad-Dīn as-Samarqandī.
Hanna Nieber (Alumna BGSMCS)
Scripture Practices on Zanzibar: Comparing Muslim and Christian Contexts.
Miriam Ovadia (Alumna BGSMCS)
Late Hanbali Polemic Theology by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah: al-Sawa'iq al-Mursalah.
Claudia Seise (Alumna BGSMCS)
Religioscapes in Muslim Indonesia: Personalities, Institutions and Practices
Year 2011
Olly Akkerman (Alumna BGSMCS)
From Sacred to Secret. Bohra Textual Practice and the Language of Secrecy
Antonia Bosanquet (Alumna BGSMCS)
Ibn al-Qayyim's „Ahkam Ahl al-Dhimma“ – Regulations pertaining to the Protected People
Rosa Cordillera Castillo (Alumna BGSMCS)
Dissertation: Being and Becoming: Imagination, Memory, and Violence in the Southern Philippines
Julia Clauß (2011-2017)
A Study in Scandals. Cultural Change in 21st-Century Saudi Arabia
Nora Derbal (Alumna BGSMCS)
Charity for the Poor in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 1961-2015.
Jasmin Mahazi (Alumna BGSMCS)
An Anthropolgy of the verbal text and context of Vave - a Bajuni Farmer's Ritual on the Swahili Coast.
Katharina Mühlbeyer (2011 - 2015)
Contemporary Islamic Advice Literature from Saudi Arabia
Barbara Ogbone
The impact of as-safar lil-ʿilm – translocal migration in search of religious education among Togolese Muslims
Jasmijn Rana (Alumna BGSMCS)
Young Muslim Women in Combat Sports: Tensions and Connections.
Nilden Vardar (2011 - 2014)
Konvertiten zum Islam - Neue politische Akteure in Deutschland? Der Einfluss eines neuen Religionsverständnisses auf die Selbstwahrnehmung als deutsch-muslimischer Staatsbürger.
Year 2010
Saud al-Zaid (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Modernity's Other: An Intellectual Anthropology of Radical Islamic Thought.
Gregory Thomas Carlock (Alumnus BGSMCS)
"A Total Poetic Conception of the World": Poetry and Modernity in Adünıs' Criticism
Chorshanbe Goibnazarov (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Qașā’id-khānī a musical expression of social, cultural and religious identity in Badakhshan
Kerstin Hünefeld (Alumna BGSMCS)
Islamic Governance in Yemen: Imām Yaḥyā 's Protection of the Jews and the Negotiation of Power
Omar Kasmani (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Gender off course: subjectivities amongst fakir bodies of Sehwan sharīf
Razak Khan (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Minority Pasts: The Other Histories of a “Muslim Locality”, Rampur 1889-1949
Alina Kokoschka (Alumna BGSMCS)
Commodity World Islam - Consumption Culture and Commodity Aesthetics in Contemporary Syria
Jakob Krais (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Libysche Geschichtsschreibung zur italienischen Kolonialzeit.
Stefan Maneval (Alumnus BGSMCS)
The Architecture of Everyday Life in Twentieth Century Jiddah
Benedikt Pontzen (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Zongo – Muslim Communities among the Asante (Ghana)
Mahabat Sadyrbek (Alumna BGSMCS)
Ethnography of Law and Justice in contemporary Kyrgyzstan. The phenomenon of kun.
Anne Schönfeld
Islam-specific knowledge production between science, politics and the public: The training of imams in Germany.
Year 2009
Dauda Abubakar (Alumnus BGSMCS)
The Practice of Zakat in Shari'ah and non-Shari'ah states of northern Nigeria
Sarah Albrecht (Alumna BGSMCS)
Dār al-Islām Revisited. Territoriality in Contemporary Islamic Legal Discourse on Muslims in the West
Zeynep Aydogan (Alumna BGSMCS)
Mapping the Early Ottoman World: Representations of Cultural Geography in the Late Medieval Anatolian Frontier Narratives
Janine Budich (Alumna BGSMCS)
Voluntary Work in Syria in the Field of Environment Protection
Till Grallert (Alumnus BGSMCS)
To Whom Belong the Streets? Property, Propriety, and Appropriation: The Production of Public Space in Late Ottoman Damascus, 1875-1914
Sabine Hanisch (2009-2015)
Spaces and Dynamics of Female Practice: Exchange and Marriage in the Sahel, Tunisia
Ebtisam Hussein (Alumna BGSMCS)
Contemporary Islamic Political Discourse: Writing Under Contested Autocratic Regime
Eva Marie Kogel
Zwischen Gotteslob und religiöser Debatte: Eine formenkritische Untersuchung hymnischer Passagen im Koran
Sara Ellinor Morack (Alumna BGSMCS)
Migrants, Locals and the State in Izmir and its Hinterland
Rune Reyhé (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Marriage and Social Interaction in a Semi-rural Uyghur Community of Kashgar
Saskia Schäfer (Alumna BGSMCS)
The debate on religious freedom in contemporary Indonesia and Malaysia
Usman Shah (2009 - 2012)
Contested Governance: State Building and Social Transformation in Pakistan:
Ruth Streicher (Alumna BGSMCS)
Constructing Masculinities: A Gendered Ethnography of the Conflict in Southern Thailand
Year 2008
Mareike Beez (Alumna BGSMCS)
Der zwölferschiitische Martyriumsdiskurs im Iran des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
Johara Berriane (Alumna BGSMCS)
The zâwiya of Sidi Ahmad al-Tijani in Fez and its transnational influence
Feray Coşkun (Alumna BGSMCS)
Sanctifying Ottoman Istanbul: The Shrine of Abū Ayyūb al-Anṣārī
Sarah Hartmann
The Informal Education Sector in Egypt: Between State, Market, and Civil Society.
Frauke-Katrin Kandale (Alumna BGSMCS)
Becoming Muslim: Chinese Muslim converts in Malaysia
Nils Riecken (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Abdallah Laroui and the Location of History. An Intellectual Biography
Michael Saurer (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Initiation, Segregation and Negotiation as Key Factors in Coversion Processes between Christians and Muslims in Southwest-Uganda.
Linus Strothmann (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Managing Piety at the Shrine of Data Ganj Bukhsh in Lahore, Pakistan
Jan Thiele (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Reaping the Fruits of Crosspollinations. The Adoption and Elaboration of Bahshamī Thought by the Zaydī al-Hasan al-Rassās.
Torsten Wollina (Alumnus BGSMCS)
Zwanzig Jahre Alltag. Lebens-, Welt- und Selbstbild im Journal des Aḥmad Ibn Ṭawq
