Doctoral Fellows
Year 2021
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
Muhammad Ashraf Thachara Padikkal
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
Okcan Yıldırımtürk
Re-Imagining Famagusta during the late Ottoman and early British rule in Cyprus: A Ruined City between Communities and Empires
Mehmet Özgün Özkul
Islam and Mobilization in Turkey: The role of emotions in the formation of subjectivity
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)
Protecting the Sacred Nature of Dersim: Environmental Activism at the Margins
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 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
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
Zubair Ahmad (Year 2015)
The History of the Present: A Postcolonial Genealogy of Germany's Politics of Islam
Heba Amin (Year 2016)
Reconfigured Territories in the MENA Region: Visualized Landscapes in the Era of Digitization and Migration
Muhammed Niyas Ashraf (Year 2015)
Entanglements of Print Culture and Trajectories of Community Formation: Mappila Muslims of Kerala, 1867 - 1956
Lucía Cirianni Salazar (Year 2016)
Coping with Closure. Pasts and Fates of the Turkish Tekkes
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
Markus Fiebig (Year 2013)
Mosque education in inner northwestern China between tradition and modernity
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
Veronika Hager (Year 2014)
“Thinking about the Ottoman Empire in the Early Republic of Turkey”
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
Miriam Kurz (Year 2015)
Mosque Space(s) in Berlin: Configurations of Gender in Social Practice and the Constitution of Islamic Spaces. An Ethnographic Study
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
Barbara Ogbone (Year 2011)
The impact of as-safar lil-ʿilm – translocal migration in search of religious education among Togolese Muslims
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.
Adela Taleb (Year 2014)
Transcending national boundaries. The role of the EU and pan-European Muslim organisations in the discursive field of "European Islam".
Mareike Transfeld (Year 2015)
Working Title: The New Yemen(s): (Re-)Imagining National Identity, Geography and State on Facebook (2011-2016)
André Weißenfels (Year 2016)
Products of Work: Hybrid Subjectivities of Employees in Tunisia