Doctoral Fellows
Year 2025
Mehmet Akif Aydin
(Research Assistant)
Kashf as a Form of Spiritual Epistemology in the Akbarī School: A Historical Analysis of the kashf Concept in Ṣadr ad-Dīn al-Qūnawī (d. 1274), ʿAfīf ad-Dīn al-Tilimsānī (d. 1291) and Dāwūd al-Qayṣarī(d. 1350)
Okba Elamoud
(Einstein Fellow)
The Evolution of Jihad in Arabic Literature: From the Afghan War to the Arab Spring
Yamen Nouh
(GHS Fellow)
Sharīʿa from a legal system to sacred law: A study of the transformations of the notion of Sharīʿa in the 19th and 20th centuries
Pal Shalugna
(ZEIT)
In the Interstices of Religion, Social Marginality and Climate Change in Bay of Bengal: A Study of the Environmental Impact on Women from Glocal Communities and Trans-regional Border Scapes in the Indo-Pacific Region
Karolin Tuncel
(Affiliated Fellow)
Negotiations of Gender Norms in Everyday Life – Ethnographic Insights from Young Couples in Contemporary Turkey
Year 2024
Ravza Belemir Aydin
(Elsa Neumann Fellow)
Mirroring Ordinary Intimacies: An Ethnographic Study of Turkish-owned and Women-only Hair-Salons in Berlin
Oualid El Khattabi
Research Associate / Arabic Studie at FU Berlin
Character and Characterisation in Premodern Arabic Fiction,8-11 C.
Suna Kafadar
(Gerda Henkel Fellow)
The Turkification of Istanbul: Expulsion of Rum Polites and the Destruction ofIstanbul's Natural Environment in the Mid-20th Century
Carlos Sanchez
(affiliated Fellow)
Turkey’s National-Religious Identity in the Diaspora: Turkey's Presidency of Religious Affairs and Non-State Religious Organisations in Europe
Vivienne Schommer
(Gerda Henkel Fellow)
Feminism and the Women's Press in Lebanon and Syria, 1909-1932
Hanna Schrodt
(affiliated Friedrich Ebert Fellow)
Religion as a factor in development cooperation in Arab countries
Razi Shaikh
(Gerda Henkel Fellow)
Pilgrims to the Promised Land. Civility and Citizenship in the Indian Muslim Imagination (1857-1947)
Birte Spreckelsen
(Elsa Neumann Fellow)
Exposed: Practices of İfşa in Turkish Tabloid press, Pornography and Feminists Activism
Ramina Yachkaschi
Research Associate / OSI at FU Berlin
Emancipation over Time and Space: Emancipation Journies of Diasporic Women
Year 2023
Leonie Böttiger
(Max Planck Institute for the History of Knowledge's Research School 'Knowledge and Its Resources'; Associate Fellow of BGSMCS)
Tracing an Epistemic Genre: Premodern Arabic Recipe Collections as Resources of Knowledge
Feyza Daloğlu
(Associate Fellow)
A Port Town from Scratch: The Interwoven Urban Landscape of Late 19th Century Iskenderun
Salam Ebeid
(DAAD Doctoral Fellow)
Ecological Intimacies and Insecurities in Egypt's South: Navigating Water
Fatema Hubail
(DAAD Doctoral Fellow)
Silencing Gender Violence Online: A Study of the Arab World's Digital Margins
Barkat Hussain
(Elsa-Neumann-Scholarship)
Emergence, Formation, and Transmission of Siharfi Tradition among Muslim Gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir: Poetry, Performativity, and Politics
Hanna Janatka
(Gerda Henkel Foundation Doctoral Fellow)
Eastern Internationalism beyond borders? The anti-colonial printing of the Kaviani press in Weimar Berlin
Samar Khan
(Fellow of Dr. Möllenkamp-Stiftung)
Making of the Arab Identity in 20th Century Chilean Literature
Simon Trunk
(Gerda Henkel Foundation Doctoral Fellow)
Hidžra, Vatan and the Question of Belonging. Discussing, Handling and Combating Muslim Emigration from Bosnia, 1878–1918
Sara Zanotta
(Associate Fellow)
Long-distance Constitutionalists: The Transborder Connections of Iranians Outside the Qajar Empire and the Origins and Survival of the 1906-1907 Fundamental Laws
Year 2022
Aleksei Akseshin
The Infrastructure of a minority: Salvation and Disconnectedness in the Sharia
Mariam Elashmawy
(Gerda Henkel Doctoral Fellow)
The Commendatory Republic in 1930s Egypt: Al-Taṣawwuf al-Islāmī, Affective Ties, and the Network of Commendations in al-Ma’rifā
Ansar Jasim
State-society relations in Iraq: Understanding spatial politics in a city of revolution(s)
Doaa Kaddah
Our Green Clean Maadi: Dialectical Imagination and Material (Re)formation of an Egyptian Elite Town
Talha Murat
(Gerda Henkel Doctoral Fellow)
From Ottoman Capital to Cairo: Sufi Intellectual Networks at the Turn of the Century (1882-1908)
Ariff Hafizi Radzi
Southeast Asia and Beyond: Mapping Muslim Solidarities and Transregional Connections during the Long Sixties (1960s-1980s)
Ruben Schenzle
Utopia arabica: Utopian Thought in the Arabic Literature of al-Andalus
https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/en/e/semiarab/arabistik/Seminar/Mitarbeiterinnen-und-Mitarbeiter/Wissenschaftliche-Mitarbeiterinnen-und-Mitarbeiter/Schenzle/index.html
Year 2021
Aslı Altınışık
(Elsa Neumann Doctoral Fellow)
Multisensorial Experiences on an Affective Island: Democracy and Liberties Island in Istanbul
Nagat Emara
(Gerda Henkel Doctoral Fellow)
A study of epistemological transformations of Islamic knowledge production in the western diasporic context during the interwar period 1918–1939
Khouloud Khalfallah
Classifying the Variety of the Arabic Versions of Kalīla wa-Dimna
T. P. Muhammad Ashraf
(DAAD Doctoral Fellow)
Channelling Piety and Progress: Migration, Organised Religion, and the South Indian Migrant Islamic Groups in the Arabian Gulf
Muhammed Vural
(Avicenna Studienwerk Doctoral Fellow)
Theoretical Foundations of Islamic Biomedical Ethics – the Case of Brain Death and Organ Transplantation
Felix Wessel
(Doctoral Fellow of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation )
From Guilds to Trade Unions. Labour Organization in Syria in the late Ottoman Empire and under the French Mandate
felixwessel@zedat.fu-berlin.de // wessef53@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Okcan Yıldırımtürk
(Gerda Henkel Doctoral Fellow)
Re-Imagining Famagusta during the late Ottoman and early British rule in Cyprus: A Ruined City between Communities and Empires
Mehmet Özgün Özkul
(Elsa Neumann Doctoral Fellow)
New Spaces, New Actors: Religious Authority in the Age of Digitalization
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
(Doctoral Fellow with Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes)
Political by Nature: Eco-political implications of transforming the sacred nature of Dersim through Tourism
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
(Affiliated Doctoral Fellow)
Wrestling and Body Politics: Negotiations of Religious Identity among Wrestlers in North India
Elif Conker
(Gerda Henkel Doctoral Fellow)
The Ottoman Responses to the Wahhabi Movement ( 1744/5-1818)
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
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)
Dis-Playing Islam in the Early Twenty-First Century: Objects, Performance, and Space in the Museum
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 (Alumni)
Rendering Islam Liberal: Secularism, Sexuality and the Politics of Muslim Self-appropriation in Germany
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
Sumrin Kalia
Muslim Identity and Civic Engagement; Exploring Pakistan’s Urban Youth Attitudes
Dimetri Whitfield (2017-2019)
Truth in Masculinity & Muslimness: Young Men of the Ahmadiyya Jama'at in the Gambia
Doctoral Fellows of the Years 2016-2008
Sara Abbas (Year 2014)
Delivering salvation: The women of the Islamist Movement and the discourses and practices of Sudan’s Civilization(al) Project
Heba Amin (Year 2016)
Reconfigured Territories in the MENA Region: Visualized Landscapes in the Era of Digitization and Migration
Mohammed Swalih Errata Parambil (Year 2015)
Everyday Ethics: Life of Two Key Texts in the Everyday Life of Islam Among Mappilas in Contemporary Kerala, South India
Saidolimkhon Gaziev (Year 2016)
The politics of gender in a colonial Islamic society: governing 'womanhood' in late 19th- and early 20th-century Russian Central Asia
Sarah Hartmann
The Informal Education Sector in Egypt: Between State, Market, and Civil Society
Liese Hoffmann (Year 2013)
Meanings of School in Post-Colonial Coastal Kenya
Zacky Khairul Umam (Year 2014)
Master of Two Oceans: Mulla Ibrahim al-Kurani (d. 1690) and the Medinan School for Religious Reformism
Eva Marie Kogel (Year 2009)
Zwischen Gotteslob und religiöser Debatte: Eine formenkritische Untersuchung hymnischer Passagen im Koran
Kristina Mashimi (Year 2012)
Beyond Classrooms: Ethics and Education at Gülen-inspired Schools in Urban Tanzania
Jovo Miladinović (Year 2016)
Mobilization of Manpower at the End and during the Change of Empires in the Multi-Confessional Borderland "Sandjak" (1900s-1920s)
Soheb Ur-Rahman Niazi (Year 2016)
Social Stratification at a Muslim Qasbah: The Case of Amroha in Colonial India
Ali Sakr (Year 2016)
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)
Anne Schönfeld (Year 2010)
Islam-specific knowledge production between science, politics and the public: The training of imams in Germany.
