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University Lecturer in Islamic Thought and History
PhD Fellow and Lecturer in Islamic Studies and Arabic Philosophy
DPhil Candidate
Professor of Theology
PhD Candidate in Islamic Studies
Research Director
Professor of Islamic Intellectual History
Professor
Associate Professor of Islamic Studies
Which Muslim theologians were among the staunchest supporters of human free will and the absolute singularity of God? One answer to this question is the Zaydi S...
Ramadan as a holy month has special rituals performed throughout its full 29-30 days, fasting from sunup to sundown, and extra communal prayers in the nights. A...
Researcher in Arabic, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies
PhD candidate
What is Zaydi fiqh? How has it developed over time? How Shīʿi or Sunni is it? In this blog piece we want to share some thoughts on the development of Zaydi fiq...
Professor of Religion
Head of Oriental Department
Manuscript copies of well-known works, especially notes in them and other traces of use, can reveal surprising details. On close inspection, the Zaydi manuscrip...
Martin Buber Society Postdoctoral Fellow
How can the study of Zaydi jurisprudence help us understand the relationship between Imam Yaḥyā Ḥamīd al-Dīn (r. 1904-1948) and the Jews of Yemen? What sources ...
Senior Researcher
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
Senior Researcher, Cataloger, & Translator
How did stories about the Virgin Mary travel between the Middle East, Europe and the Horn of Africa?...
Assistant Professor
Chaplain
Doctoral fellow in the Islamic Civilizations Studies program
Post-Doc Research Fellow
Postdoctoral Researcher
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
Doctoral researcher in the Emmy Noether project “Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period (SCORE)” led by Dr Hannah-Lena Hagemann
Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature
Scientific Director
When the 13th-century Coptic official Ibn al-ʿAmīd was thrown into prison by Sultan Baybars, he set out to compile a summary of universal history from the creat...
In his Book of Demonstration, Elias of Nisibis (d. 1046) presents the identity of the Church of the East, from doctrinal, historical, liturgical, and ethical pe...
