Dr. Serkan Ince

Office
Center for Islamic Theology
Liebermeisterstraße 18, 72076 Tübingen
6th level, Room 605
+49 7071 29- 75315
serkan.incespam prevention@zith.uni-tuebingen.de

Office hours
Mon., 13:00 - 14:00

Research

Main Research Areas

Systematic Theology
Epistemology
Christian–Muslim Relations
Scriptural Reasoning
Theories of Argumentation
Islamic Philosophy
Didactics of Kalām
Islamic Prison Chaplaincy

Short Vita

2020

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Chair of Islamic Theology, Center for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen

2020

Doctorate (PhD) in Islamic Theology

University of Tübingen
Grade: magna cum laude (1.0)

2012 - 2020

Research Fellow

Chair of Islamic Theology, Center for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen

2010 - 2012

Master’s Degree in Religious Studies, specialization in Contemporary Religious Culture

Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Bayreuth

2010 - 2011

Supplementary Teacher Education Program in Islamic Religious Education

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg

2010 - 2014

Bachelor’s Degree in Cultural Studies

specialization in Religion, with a combined field of Arabic and Islamic Cultural and Linguistic Studies (Islamic Studies)
Faculty of Cultural Studies, University of Bayreuth

2006 - 2010

Diploma in Theology

University of Ankara

Publications

Monographs

2023	Argumentation und Apologetik, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (Sapientia Islamica 6)

Critical Editions

2026	(forthcoming) Critical edition with introduction and translation: Kalām Meets Rhetoric: ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī’s Al-ʿIqd al-naẓīm fī l-qadr al-ʿaẓīm, Cambridge: CMC Press.
2025	Critical edition with introduction and translation: Al-qawl al-abyan fī sharḥ ʿaqīda Abū Madyan, ‘The Clearest Saying in Explaining Abū Madyan’s Creed’, in: ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī: A Bilingual Reader, ed. Lejla Demiri, Samuela Pagani, and Astrid Meier, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck (Sapientia Islamica).
2019	Critical edition with introduction: What Makes Us Human? ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī’s Reflections on Human Nature (Introduction to and critical edition of Nābulusī’s Badhl al-iḥsān fī taḥqīq maʿnā l-insān), in: Early Modern Trends in Islamic Theology. ʿAbd al-Ghani al Nābulusī and his Network of Scholarship, ed. Lejla Demiri and Samuela Pagani, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Articles and Book Chapters

2026	Divine Will and Cosmic Order. Unraveling ‘kun fa-yakūn’ and Its Implications, in: Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences (PTSc) 13, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
2026	A Historical and Systematic Overview of the Islamic Radd Argument against Christianity, in: Christian and Islamic Hermeneutics: Foundations and Interreligious Explorations, ed. by Bengard, Röder and Vimercati Sanseverino, Zurich: Theologischer Verlag Zürich (Contributions to a Theology of Religions). Announcement: https://www.tvz-verlag.ch/buch/christliche-und-islamische-hermeneutiken-9783290187484.pdf
2026	Enthymematic Arguments in the ʿAqīda of Pseudo-Sīdī Abū Madyan and Their Syllogistic Interpretations in the Sharḥ of al-Nābulusī, in: Post-Classical Rational Islamic Thought, ed. by Maha El Kaisy-Friemuth and Ahmad Mahmud Ighbariah, Berlin: De Gruyter. Announcement: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Classical-Islamic-Thought-Kalām-Studies/dp/3111314162
2026	“Didactics of Kalām: An Argumentation-Theoretical Approach.” In Islamic Theological and Pedagogical Approaches to Religious Education: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Challenges, edited by U. Karagedik, S. Yağdı, and I. Kocyigit. Baden-Baden: Nomos, Neue Perspektiven in der Islamischen Theologie und Religionspädagogik: https://www.nomos-shop.de/en/p/islamic-theological-and-pedagogical-approaches-to-religious-education-gr-978-3-7560-1005-9
2026	“Islamic Theology Oriented Towards Cultural Studies: Reflections from a Kalāmic Perspective.” In Islamic-Theological and Religious-Pedagogical Approaches to Religious Pluralism, edited by Tuğrul Kurt and Şenol Yağdı. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht / Brill.
2026	“Epistemological Methodology of the Schematic Analysis of Theological Arguments: With a Case Study on al-Samarqandī’s Argument on Divine Attributes.” In Islamic Religious Education in Discourse, edited by U. Karagedik et al. Baden-Baden: Nomos, Neue Perspektiven in der Islamischen Theologie und Religionspädagogik.
2026	“Qur’anic Hermeneutics in Christian Missionary Literature: The Khuṭbas of Arthur Thomas Upson and Sheikh ʿAbd Allāh.” In Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 28: Thematic Essays (1600–1914). Leiden: Brill.
2026	The Silent Desire to Return: The Return to Their Homeland of Foreign Prisoners and Its Significance for Islamic Prison Chaplaincy, in: Spiritual Care in Times of War and Displacement: Interdisciplinary, Intercultural and Interreligious Perspectives, ed. by Mahmoud Abdallah, Thomas Dreher, and Georg Wenz, Ostfildern: Matthias Grünewald Verlag (Theologie des Zusammenlebens – Christliche und muslimische Beiträge, vol. 7). https://shop.verlagsgruppe-patmos.de/spiritual-care-in-times-of-war-and-displacement-303394.html
2026	with L. Schlenker: Scriptural Reasoning as Textual Proximity and Hermeneutics of Encounter, in: Proximate Humanities, ed. by Russell West-Pavlov, London: Routledge.
2026	Forthcoming. With A. Morath: Scriptural Reasoning: Theorie und Praxis des interreligiösen Lesens, in: Handbuch Christlich-Islamischer Dialog, ed. by M. Affolderbach, N. Cakir-Mattner, M. Meißner et al.
2024	Scriptural Reasoning: Die Schrift im Mittelpunkt intertheologischer Praxis, in: Zeitschrift für islamisches Denken (ZeFiD), issue 2, Cologne.
2023	The Epistemological Orientation of Ottoman Argumentation Theory and Its Relation to Philosophical Kalām: Some Reflections on Ṭaşköprüzâde, Gelenbevî, and Saçaklızâde, in: Journal of Argumentation in Context, vol. 12, no. 3, ed. by Frans H. van Eemeren and Bart Garssen, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
2023	ʿAbd al-Jabbār’s Apologetical Arguments Opposing Christian Christology: A Critical Analysis from the Viewpoint of Epistemological Argumentation Theory, in: Nazariyat. Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, ed. by Ihsan Fazlioglu, Istanbul: ILEM open access: https://nazariyat.org/content/5-sayilar/18-cilt-9-sayi-1/3-serkanince/3_serkan_ince_en.pdf).
2023	Kâdî Abdülcebbâr’ın Hıristiyan Kristolojisine Karşı Savunmacı Delilleri: Epistemolojik Argümantasyon Teorisi Açısından Eleştirel Bir Analiz [Turkish translation of the article “Ince, S. (2023): ʿAbd al-Jabbār’s Apologetical Arguments Opposing Christian Christology: A Critical Analysis from the Viewpoint of Epistemological Argumentation Theory”], in: Nazariyat. Journal for the History of Islamic Philosophy and Sciences, translated by Sacide Ataş, ed. by Ihsan Fazlioglu, Istanbul: ILEM (open access: dx.doi.org/10.12658/Nazariyat.9.1.M0176)
2023	Arthur Thomas Upson, The Burden Bearer (including an introduction and partial translation), in: Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources 600–1914, vol. III, ed. by David Thomas et al., London: Bloomsbury.
2023	Mahmud Esad ibn Emin Seydişehrî, A Sermon on the Sin-Bearers (including an introduction and partial translation), in: Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources 600–1914, vol. III, ed. by David Thomas et al., London: Bloomsbury.
2023	With L. Demiri: Ibrahim Müteferrika, Treatise on Islam (including an introduction and partial translation), in: Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources 600–1914, vol. III, ed. by David Thomas et al., London: Bloomsbury.
2023	With L. Demiri: Iskandar ibn Aḥmad, Epistle Refuting the Christian Religion through the Gospel by Means of the Discipline of Kalām (including an introduction and partial translation), in: Christian-Muslim Relations: Primary Sources 600–1914, vol. III, ed. by David Thomas et al., London: Bloomsbury.
2022	Apologetic Arguments in Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Jaʿfarī’s Kitāb al-radd ʿalā al-Naṣārā, in: Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations (ICMR), Abingdon: Routledge. See also: Taylor & Francis Online: https://doi.org/10.1080/09596410.2021.2021734
2022	Religiöse und ethische Elemente in der deutschsprachigen Freitagspredigt, in: Praktische Theologie. Zeitschrift für Praxis in Kirche, Gesellschaft und Kultur, ed. by Uta Pohl-Patalong, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Penguin Random House.
2021	Early 20th-Century Missionary Conferences, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, vol. 17, Britain, the Netherlands and Scandinavia (1800–1914), ed. by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_32926
2021	Sırât-ı Müstakîm and Sebîlürreşâd ‘The Straight Path’ and ‘The Path to Right Guidance’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_33352
2021	Turkish State Archives, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/CMR2/COM-33339.xml
2021	with L. Demiri: Celal Nuri İleri, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_32477
2021	with L. Demiri: Hâtemü’l-enbiyâ ‘The Seal of the prophets’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_32478
2021	with L. Demiri: İslâmiyet mâni-i terakkî midir? ‘Is Islam an Obstacle to Progress?’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_33133
2021	with L. Demiri: Hasan Sabri, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_32981
2021	with L. Demiri: Meryem Ana hutbelerine reddiye. Îkâzü’l-mü’minîn fî reddi’s-salîbîn ‘A Refutation of Sermons on Mother Mary. A Warning to the Believers in Refutation of the Crusaders’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: https://referenceworks.brill.com/display/entries/CMR2/COM-32982.xml
2021	with L. Demiri: Abdullah Edib Bayramzâde, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_32475
2021	with L. Demiri: Din yolunda ‘On the Path of Religion’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_32476
2021	Mahmud Esad ibn Emin Seydişehrî, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_29600
2021	Şeriat-ı islâmiye ve Mister Karlayl ‘The Islamic Religion and Mr Carlyl’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_29601
2021	Müdâfaa. Kelimetullâh-ı Teâlâya dair hutbe ‘A Defence. A Sermon on the Word of God the Exalted’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_29602
2021	Tarih-i din-i İslam ‘History of the Religion of Islam’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_32750
2021	Hz. Adem’in cennetten hurûcuna dair hutbe ‘A Sermon on Adam’s Leaving Paradise’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_32751
2021	Günah yükü taşıyanlar hakkında hutbe ‘A Sermon on the Sin-Bearers’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_32752
2021	Zebh-i azȋm’e dair hutbe ‘A Sermon on “The Great Sacrifice”’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_32753
2021	Tarih-i İslam ‘History of Islam’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_32754
2021	Müdâfaa. Ruhullâh’a dair hutbe ‘A Defence. A Sermon on the Spirit of God’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_32755
2021	Arthur Thomas Upson, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_32936
2021	Missionary khuṭbas, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_32937
2021	Ahmed Kemal İlkul, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_33832
2021	Sultan Cem yâhud tâliʿsiz şehzâde ‘Sultan Cem or the Unfortunate Prince’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_33833
2021	Ahmed Şükrizâde Ali Haydar, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_31333
2021	Beyân-ı hakîkat. Birinci fasıl ‘The Explanation of Truth. First Part’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_31334
2021	Beyân-ı hakîkat. İkinci fasıl ‘The Explanation of Truth. Second Part’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_33340
2021	Mehmed Esad, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_33661
2021	Tahlîlî ve tenkîdî tarih-i edyân ‘Analytical and Critical History of Religions’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_33662
2021	Tahlîlî ve tenkîdî tarih-i İslam ‘An Analytical and Critical History of Islam’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_33663
2021	İbnü’r-Reşâd Ali Ferruh, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_33095
2021	Teşhîr-i ebâtîl ‘Exposing Falsehoods’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, The Ottoman Empire (1800–1914), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_33096
2018	with L. Demiri: İbrahim Müteferrika, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 12, Asia, Africa and the Americas (1700–1800), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_30536
2018	with L. Demiri: Risâle-i Islâmiye ‘Treatise on Islam’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 12, Asia, Africa and the Americas (1700–1800), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_30537
2018	with L. Demiri: Usûlü’l-hikem fî nizâmi’l-ümem ‘Principles of Rule for the Order of the Nations’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 12, Asia, Africa and the Americas (1700–1800), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_32473
2018	with L. Demiri: Usûlü’l-hikem fî nizâmi’l-ümem ‘Principles of Rule for the Order of the Nations’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 12, Asia, Africa and the Americas (1700–1800), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_32473
2018	with L. Demiri: Risāla fī radd al-milla l-naṣrāniyya bi-l-Injīl min qibal ʿilm al-kalām ‘Epistle Refuting the Christian Religion through the Gospel by Means of the Discipline of Kalām’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 12, Asia, Africa and the Americas (1700–1800), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_28526
2017	with L. Demiri: Altıparmak Mehmed Efendi, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 10, Ottoman and Safavid Empires (1600–1700), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_30824
2017	with L. Demiri: Hikâyet-i hîle-i Bûlis-i laʿin ‘The Story of the Accursed Paul’s Deception’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 10, Ottoman and Safavid Empires (1600–1700), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_30977
2017	with L. Demiri: Risâle-i Altıparmak der hakk-ı Nasârâ ‘Altıparmak’s Treatise Concerning Christians’, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 10, Ottoman and Safavid Empires (1600–1700), edited by David Thomas and John Chesworth, Leiden: Brill. See also Brill Online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2451-9537_cmrii_COM_30825
2016	Grounded Theory and Its Epistemological Value for the Study of Religion and for Practical Islamic Theology, in: Jahrbuch für Islamische Theologie und Religionspädagogik, Münster: Kalām.
2015	with C. Lumer: Islamic Theological Arguments: An Epistemological Systematisation, in: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam: Sic Sat.

Reviews and Reports

2025	Ahmed Husić: Wesensattribute Gottes in der Theologie Sayf ad-Dīn al-Āmidīs [Nature Attributes of God in theology Sayf ad-Dīn al-Āmidīs], Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2025, in: Hikma 16/2, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
2024	Tilman Nagel: In Allahs Kosmos. Eine Abhandlung über das Menschsein im Islam [A treatise on being human in Islam], Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter 2022, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, Berlin: De Gruyter.
2021	Douglas Pratt und Charles L. Tieszen (Hrsg.): Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, Volume 15, Thematic Essays (600–1600), Leiden: Brill 2020, in: Salzburger Theologische Zeitschrift (SaThZ), Salzburg: Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät.
2021	Angelika Brodersen: Zwischen Māturīdīýa und Aš'Arīya. Abū Šakūr as-Sālimī und sein Tamhīd fī bayān at-tauḥīd [Between Māturīdīýa and Aš'Arīya. Abū Šakūr as-Sālimī and his Tamhīd fī bayān at-tauḥīd], Piscataway: Gorgias Press 2018, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, Berlin: De Gruyter.
2018	together with B. Villuendas: Report of the international conference “Theological Anthropology in Interreligious Perspective”, in: ZITh Newsletter, 1/2018, Tübingen.

Committee Service and Special Responsibilities

since 2025	Member of the Centre Council at the Centre for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen
2025 - 2028	Faculty Council member from the academic middle building, Center for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen
2021 - 2023	Representatives of the Center for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen, in the TheoReS consortium (Theologies and Religious Research) of the National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI)
2016 - 2021	Member of the Centre Council at the Centre for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen
2017 - 2019	Representatives of the Mittelbau at the Center for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen
2013 - 2017	Member of the Examination Committee at the Center for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen
2013 - 2019	Erasmus Coordinator at the Centre for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen
2013 - 2026	Academic advisor at the Centre for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen

Supervision of Theses

2026	Iman Marghadi, Bachelor’s Thesis: The Prophet Yaʿqūb: A Prophetic Father Figure in Light of Sūrat Yūsuf, University of Tübingen
2025	Sümeyye Altintop, Master’s Thesis: Early Childhood Education and Upbringing in the Islamic Context: Selected Stories of the Prophets as Case Studies, University of Tübingen
2025	Müberra Kazanci, Master’s Thesis: Al-Ghazālī’s Interpretation of the Taḥajjud Prayer: Voluntariness, Purification of the Heart, and Proximity to God, University of Tübingen
2024	Hava Emrem, Master’s Thesis: Disobedience in Pastoral Care: Job in the Old Testament and the Qur’an as Case Studies, University of Tübingen
2023	Seher Sucu, Bachelor’s Thesis: The Reformer and the Turks: A Historical-Theological Analysis of Martin Luther’s Writings (1513–1542), University of Tübingen
2021	Zeynep Taşkıran, Master’s Thesis: Muslim-Christian Relations in the Seventeenth Century from the Perspective of the Ottoman Scholar Kâtib Çelebi (d. 1657), University of Tübingen

Academic Supervision of International Students

2025 - 2026	Semra Kizilarslan, doctoral researcher at Ankara University, research topic: Consciousness and the Self: Philosophy of Mind in Suhrawardī and John R. Searle
2025 - 2026	Hilal Altindag, doctoral researcher at Ankara University, research topic: John Philoponus and al-Ghazālī on the Eternity of the World: A Comparative Analysis
2025 - 2026	Assma ben Abdallah, doctoral researcher at the University of Rabat, research topic: The Influence of al-Ghazālī on Jewish Mysticism
2024	Mediha Özdemir, Doktorandin an der Marmara Universität, Thema: „Phonological Theories and Word Structures in Arabic Thought in 4th Century Hijra“, Erasmus, Universität Tübingen
2024	İkrime Yıldırım Diatlov, doctoral researcher at Çanakkale University, research topic: The Approaches of Feminist Philosophy of Religion and Critiques of God, Erasmus Programme, University of Tübingen
2024	Sümeyye Sarikaya, Master’s student at Istanbul University, research topic: The Anti-Jewish Attitude of German Protestant Churches in the Nazi Era: A Study of the German Christians Movement and the Eisenach Institute, Erasmus Programme, University of Tübingen
2022	Zeynep Baktemur, M.A., doctoral researcher at Ankara University, research topic: God, Evil and Existentialism, Erasmus Programme, University of Tübingen
2022	Elif Nur Çerko, Master’s student at Istanbul University, research topic: Heresiological Debates in Early Christianity in the Context of Nestorius’ Understanding of Jesus Christ, Erasmus Programme, University of Tübingen

Research Funding and Grants

2025	Co-application for a New Horizons Fellowship at the College of Fellows, University of Tübingen, for Prof. Maria Massi Dakake (George Mason University), project: Islamic and Interreligious Hermeneutics of Religion, Summer Semester 2026; member of the accompanying Focus Group
2024	Research funding for early-career scholars Funding: University of Tübingen Project: The Nile Mission Press, the Christian Khuṭbas of A. T. Upson and Sheikh ʿAbd Allāh, and the Ottoman Responses Project period: July 2024–June 2026 Amount: €19,840
2024	Co-application for a New Horizons Fellowship at the College of Fellows, University of Tübingen, for Prof. Michael Raposa (Lehigh University), project: Philosophy of Religion in Classical American Pragmatism, January–June 2025; member of the accompanying Focus Group
2023	Research funding for a project on the missionary khuṭbas of Arthur Thomas Upson and the Ottoman responses Funding: Fritz Thyssen Foundation Project: Missionary Khuṭbas Project period: 2023 Amount: €1,032
2020	Funding for foreign-language publication project: Enthymematic Arguments in the ʿAqīda of Pseudo-Sīdī Abū Madyan and Their Syllogistic Interpretations in the Sharḥ of al-Nābulusī Funding: AIWG Project: Foreign-language editing Project period: 2020 Amount: €1,000
2019	Funding for foreign-language publication project: Apologetic Arguments in Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Jaʿfarī’s Kitāb al-Radd ʿalā l-Naṣārā Funding: AIWG Project: Foreign-language editing Project period: 2020 Amount: €1,000
2016	Funding for the workshop Argumentation and Theology Funding: Future Concept, Excellence Initiative of the University of Tübingen Project: Workshop aimed at strengthening disciplinary and methodological expertise as well as interdisciplinary and international networking Project period: 2016 Amount: €5,000

Workshop Organization

2025	Christian Missionary Khuṭbas and Islamic Responses After Edinburgh 1910, Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies (CMCS), Oxford, co-organized with Prof. David Thomas, Dr. John Chesworth, Dr. Martin Whittingham, and Dr. Richard McCallum; organized as part of the University of Tübingen-funded research project Nile Mission Press for early-career scholars
2025	The Christian Khuṭbas of the Nile Mission Press, Hartford International University for Religion and Peace, co-organized with Prof. David Grafton; organized as part of the University of Tübingen-funded research project Nile Mission Press for early-career scholars
2025	Khuṭbas of the Nile Mission Press, Centre for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen, co-organized with Dr. Carsten Walbiner (DAAD); organized as part of the University of Tübingen-funded research project Nile Mission Press for early-career scholars
2025	Missionary Archives in Turkey, Centre for Islamic Theology, University of Tübingen, co-organized with Dr. Mehmet Ali Doğan; organized as part of the University of Tübingen-funded research project Nile Mission Press for early-career scholars
2016	Argumentation and Theology, University of Tübingen, funded by the Excellence Initiative of the University of Tübingen; co-organized with Prof. Josef van Ess, Prof. Mark Swanson, Dr. Mehmet Kadri Karabela, Prof. Yossef Schwartz, Prof. Christoph Lumer, Prof. Amir Dziri, and Dr. Himmet Taşkömür

Nominations and Invitations

2026	Nomination for the 2026 Riwaq Prize for Science and Culture for the monograph Argumentation and Apologetics, nominated by the publisher Mohr Siebeck
2025	Building Bridges Seminar, Georgetown University (held at the University of Tübingen); invited participant in an exclusive international dialogue forum for selected Christian and Muslim scholars

Teaching Record

Summer Semester 2026	Systematic Theology and Philosophy (Lecture) Islamic Philosophy: Introduction to Rational Theology (Seminar)
Winter Semester 2025/2026	Introduction to the Foundations of Faith (Lecture) Islam and Religious Pluralism – Muslim Perceptions of the Religious “Other” (Seminar) Texts on Islamic Theology (Seminar)
Summer Semester 2025	Introduction to Islamic Preaching: From the Mosque to the Prison (Seminar) Islam and Philosophy – An Introduction to Medieval Islamic Philosophy (Seminar) Systematic Theology and Philosophy (Lecture)
Winter Semester 2024/2025	Introduction to the Foundations of Faith (Lecture) Islam and Ethics (Seminar)
Summer Semester 2024	Systematic Theology and Philosophy (Lecture) Islam and Philosophy – An Introduction to Medieval Islamic Philosophy (Seminar)
Winter Semester 2023/2024	Key Concepts in Islamic Pastoral Care: From the Clinic to the Prison (Seminar) Religion(s) and Modernity/Modernities: A Trialogue – Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogue (Seminar) Introduction to the Foundations of Faith – Foundations and Applications of Argumentation Theory (Lecture)
Summer Semester 2023	Preaching (Seminar) Systematic Theology (Kalām) – With a Focus on Pedagogical-Analytical Understanding and Learning (Seminar) Systematic Theology and Philosophy (Lecture) Lecture Series: Textual Authorities (Lecture Series)
Winter Semester 2022/2023	Introduction to the Foundations of Faith (Lecture) Moral Theology and Kalām (Seminar) Pastoral Care in Prisons: Theory and Practice in Correctional Institutions (Seminar)
Summer Semester 2022	Islam and Philosophy (Seminar) Systematic Theology (Seminar)
Winter Semester 2021/2022	Introduction to the Foundations of Faith (Lecture) Systematic Theology (Seminar)
Summer Semester 2021	Systematic Theology and Philosophy (Lecture) Islamic Philosophy (Seminar) Islamic Theology (Seminar)
Winter Semester 2020/2021	Islam and Other Religions (Seminar) Systematic Theology (Seminar)
Summer Semester 2020	Islam and Other Religions (Seminar) Islamic Theology (Seminar)
Winter Semester 2019/2020	Systematic Theology and Philosophy (Seminar) Islam and Other Religions (Seminar)
Summer Semester 2019	Systematic Theology (Seminar) Islamic Theology (Seminar)
Winter Semester 2018/2019	Systematic Theology (Seminar) Ḥadīth as a Source of Kalām (Seminar)
Summer Semester 2018	Systematic Theology (Seminar) The Attributes of God – A Systematic-Theological Approach (Seminar)
Winter Semester 2017/2018	Systematic Theology (Seminar)
Summer Semester 2017	Systematic Theology (Seminar))
Winter Semester 2016/2017	Mahmud Esad Seydişehrî and Christian-Muslim Relations in the Late Ottoman Period (Seminar)
Summer Semester 2016	Systematic Theology (Seminar)
Summer Semester 2015	Systematic Theology (Seminar)
Winter Semester 2014/2015	Islamic Apologetic Literature on Christianity (Seminar)
Summer Semester 2014	The Generation of Theological Knowledge: Principles of Knowledge in Argumentative Theology (Seminar)
Winter Semester 2013/2014	An Argumentation-Theoretical Analysis of Radd Literature (Seminar)
Summer Semester 2013	Islamic Manuscripts and Textual Editions (Seminar)

Professional Development

2025	Interfaith Training in Chaplaincy in Correctional Facilities, Protestant University of Applied Sciences Freiburg
2024	ERASMUS+ Staff Training, St Mary’s College, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews Training undertaken as part of a project exploring innovative teaching methods and pedagogical approaches in the teaching of theology
2024	Developing and Designing International Degree Programme Collaborations, Curriculum Designer, University of Tübingen
2024	Integrating Student Feasibility and Teaching Requirements in Curriculum Design, Curriculum Designer, University of Tübingen
2020	Ottoman Turkish, Summer School, Ibn Haldun University, Istanbul
2020	Foundations of University Teaching I, University Teaching and Learning, University of Tübingen
2018	Training as a Freelance Trainer in the Prevention of Islamist Extremism, within the framework of the project Team meX. Civic Courage against Extremism, State Agency for Civic Education Baden-Württemberg
2014	An Intensive Five-Day Course in Arabic Manuscript Studies, University of Manchester
2013	MAXQDA Training, Freie Universität Berlin

Selected Lectures and Presentations

2026	Scriptural Reasoning: Interfaith Reading of the Bible and Qur’an on the Theme of Peace, German Catholic Congress, Würzburg (co-presented with Alexandra Morath)
2025	The Christian Khuṭbas of the Nile Mission Press, Collegial Seminar, Hartford International University for Religion and Peace
2025	Sacred Texts in Tension and Dialogue: Christian Missionary Khuṭbas and Islamic Responses After Edinburgh 1910, Research Seminar, Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies (CMCS), Oxford
2025	Poetry as Argument: The Kalāmī Method in al-Nābulusī’s al-ʿIqd al-naẓīm, Conference “Poetry and Knowledge: The Production and Transmission of Knowledge in Arabic Verse (1100–1800),” University of Münster
2024	Didactics of Analytical Theology, conference “Islamic Religious Education in Dialogue,” Karlsruhe University of Education
2024	Christian-Muslim Encounters in the Early 20th Century: Nile Mission Press and the Khuṭbas of Arthur Thomas Upson and Sheikh ʿAbd Allāh, St Mary’s College, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews
2023	Prophetic Claims and Criteria: A Kalām Analysis of Montanism and Musaylima, Annual Conference of the Swiss Theological Society, “Prophecy in Conflict / Prophétie en conflit,” University of Lausanne
2023	The Use of the Bible in Islamic Apologetics in the 13th Century, Interfaculty Lecture Series, “Textual Authorities,” University of Tübingen
2023	The Relevance of Music Therapy in Ottoman Hospitals for Pastoral Care, Continuing Education Seminar for Chaplaincy Training, Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), Dahlem
2022	Missionary Khuṭbas of the Nile Mission Press in Egypt and the Ottoman Reactions, Senior Research Seminar in Islamic Theology, Religious Studies, and Jewish Studies, University of Tübingen
2022	Enthymematic Arguments in the ʿAqīda of Pseudo-Sīdī Abū Madyan and their Syllogistic Interpretations in the Sharḥ of al-Nābulusī, International Conference “Rationality in Islamic Theology in the Post-Classical Period (1200–1900),” Department of Islamic Religious Studies, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
2022	Scriptural Reasoning, co-led with Lea Schlenker, Dipl.-Theol., M.A.; session topic: “Jesus as the Word of God: Christian and Islamic Perspectives,” Protestant Studies Seminar Morata-Haus, Heidelberg
2022	Youth Scenes between Islam and Islamism, Professional Development Course for Teacher-Training Students in Islamic Religious Education at Primary and Lower Secondary Level, Ludwigsburg University of Education
2019	Hermeneutics and Interpretation in Argumentative Theological Encounters, International Conference within the INTER•RELIGIO Project, University of Basel
2019	The Theology of al-Nābulusī, Reading Weekend “Old Texts, New Readings: Exegesis and Creativity in Early Modern Islamic Theology,” University of Tübingen
2014	Reconstruction of the Author and His Epistemological Principles: An Argumentation-Theoretic Analysis of the Texts of Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Jaʿfarī on Christian Teaching, 4th World Congress for Middle East Studies (WOCMES), Ankara
2014	Islamic Theological Arguments – An Epistemological Systematisation, 8th ISSA Conference on Argumentation, Amsterdam

Research Visits and Stays Abroad

November 2025	USA, Hartford, Hartford International University for Religion and Peace — Workshop and archival research as part of the University of Tübingen’s project funding programme for early-career researchers, project on the “Nile Mission Press”
November 2025	USA, Cambridge, MA, Houghton Library, Harvard University — Archival research as part of the University of Tübingen’s project funding programme for early-career researchers, project on the “Nile Mission Press”
November 2025	USA, New York, Burke Library, Columbia University — Archival research as part of the University of Tübingen’s project funding programme for early-career researchers, project on the “Nile Mission Press”
October 2025	England, Oxford, Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies (CMCS) — Workshop as part of the University of Tübingen’s project funding programme for early-career researchers, project on the “Nile Mission Press”
August 2024	Turkey — Archival research as part of the University of Tübingen’s project funding programme for early-career researchers, project on the “Nile Mission Press”
March - April 2024	Scotland, St Andrews, St Mary’s College, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews — ERASMUS+ Staff Training as part of a project exploring innovative teaching methods and pedagogical approaches in the teaching of theology. During the stay, I gave a lecture on Christian sermons published by the Nile Mission Press in the early twentieth century as part of Prof. Mario I. Aguilar’s course “Introduction to World Religions” and a lecture on the same topic as part of Rev. Katri Bosse’s course “Reading Religion(s): Understanding the Dimensions of Religion and the Religions in the 21st Century”.
May - June 2023	England, Oxford, Bodleian Library — Research stay funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation
September - October 2019	Oman — Research stay funded by the Evangelical Church in Württemberg and the University of Tübingen
June 2019	Turkey — Research stay as part of the research project on al-Nābulusī, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
March 2019	England, Oxford, Bodleian Library — Research stay funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
March 2019	England, Cambridge — Assistant at the international conference “Green Theology: Emerging 21st Century Muslim and Christian Discourses on Ecology”, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
October 2017	Ireland — ERASMUS+ staff mobility for training and professional development, University of Tübingen
November 2016	Tunisia — Research stay funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
August 2015	Turkey — Research stay as part of the research project on al-Nābulusī, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
September 2014	Bosnia and Herzegovina — Research stay as part of the research project on al-Nābulusī, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
August - October 2013	Jordan — Research stay funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Memberships in Academic Organisations

The Islamic Manuscript Association, Cambridge
International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam

Publications

Ince, S. (2021/22, Monographie im Veröffentlichungsprozess): Argumentation und erkenntnistheoretische Prinzipien der al-Radd ʿalā al-Naṣārā-Literatur unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Werkes des Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Jaʿfarī (gest. 668/1270), Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Ince, S. (2021): Early 20th century missionary conferences, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 17, Leiden: Brill, S. 459–467.Ince, S. (2021, gemeinsam mit Demiri, L.): Celal Nuri İleri, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, Leiden: Brill, S. 237–24.
Ince, S. (2021, gemeinsam mit Demiri, L.): Hasan Sabri, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, Leiden: Brill, S. 225–228.
Ince, S. (2021, gemeinsam mit Demiri, L.): Bayramzâde (also known as Bülbülzâde) Abdullah Edib Ayıntablı (Antepli), in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, Leiden: Brill, S. 176–178
Ince, S. (2021): Mahmud Esad b. Emin Seydişehri, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, Leiden: Brill, S. 204–225.
Ince, S. (2021): Arthur Thomas Upson, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, Leiden: Brill, S. 745–759.
Ince, S. (2021): Mehmed Esad, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, Leiden: Brill, S. 246–250
Ince, S. (2021): Rodoslu Ahmed Kemal, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, Leiden: Brill, S. 201–204.
Ince, S. (2021): Ahmed Şükrizâde Ali Haydar, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, Leiden: Brill, S. 127–131.
Ince, S. (2021): Ibürreşad Ali Ferruh, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, Leiden: Brill, S. 131–134.
Ince, S. (2021): The Turkish State Archives, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 18, Leiden: Brill, S. 266–272.
Ince, S. (2021): Douglas Pratt und Charles L. Tieszen (hrsg.): Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History, Volume 15, Thematic Essays (600–1600), Leiden: Brill 2020, in: Salzburger Theologische Zeitschrift (SaThZ), Salzburg: Katholisch-Theologische Fakultät, S. 102–106.
Ince, S. (2021, Rezension im Veröffentlichungsprozess): Brodersen, Angelika: Zwischen Māturīdīýa und Aš'arīya. Abū Šakūr as-Sālimī und sein Tamhīd fī bayān at-tauḥīd, Piscataway: Gorgias Press 2018, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, Berlin: De Gruyter.
Ince, S. (2019): What Makes Us Human? ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī’s Reflections on Human Nature (Introduction to and critical edition of Nābulusī’s Badhl al-iḥsān fī taḥqīq maʿnā l-insān), in: Early Modern Trends in Islamic Theology. ʿAbd al-Ghani al Nābulusī and his Network of Scholarship, hrsg. von Lejla Demiri und Samuela Pagani, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, S. 299–315.
Ince, S. (2018, gemeinsam mit Demiri, L.): İbrahim Müteferrika, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 12, Leiden: Brill, S. 154–162.
Ince, S. (2018, gemeinsam mit Demiri, L.): İskender b. Ahmed et-Trabzonî', in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 12, Leiden: Brill, S. 147–149.
Ince, S. (2017, gemeinsam mit Demiri, L.): Altıparmak Mehmed Efendi, in: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History, Volume 10, Leiden: Brill, S. 104–108.
Ince, S. (2015, gemeinsam mit Lumer, C.): Islamic Theological Arguments: An Epistemological Systematisation, in: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation, Amsterdam: Sic Sat, S. 896–906.
Ince, S. (Buchbeitrag im Veröffentlichungsprozess): Ein geschichtlicher und systematischer Überblick des argumentativen islamischen Radd zum Christentum, in: Inter-Religio: Christliche und islamische Hermeneutiken im Gespräch, hrsg. von Reinhold Bernhardt und Perry Schmidt-Leukel, Zürich: Theologischer Verlag Zürich (Beiträge zu einer Theologie der Religionen).
Ince, S. (Buchbeitrag im Veröffentlichungsprozess): Al-qawl al-abyan fī sharḥ ʿaqīda Abū Madyan, ‘The Clearest Saying in Explaining Abū Madyan’s Creed’, in: N.N., hrsg. von Lejla Demiri und Samuela Pagani, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
Ince, S. (2021/2, Artikel im Veröffentlichungsprozess): Apologetic Arguments in Ṣāliḥ ibn al-Ḥusayn al-Jaʿfarī’s Kitāb al-radd ʿalā l-Naṣārā, in: Islam and Christian - Muslim Relations (ICMR), Abingdon: Routledge.
Ince, S. (2022, Artikel im Veröffentlichungsprozess): Islamic Theological Arguments in Apologetic Literature. An Example from the Apologetic Work of ʿAbd al-Jabbār, in: Methodos 22 (Argumentation and Arabic Philosophy of Language), hrsg. Walter Edward Young et al., Villeneuve d'Ascq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion.
Ince, S. (2016): Grounded Theory und ihr epistemologischer Wert für die Religionsforschung und für die praktische Islamische Theologie, in: Jahrbuch für Islamische Theologie und Religionspädagogik, Münster: Kalām, S. 171–190.
Ince, S. (2012, Studentische Schriften): Religiöse Argumentationsstrukturen am Beispiel des salafistischen Bid’a-Verständnisses. Eine qualitative Videoanalyse, München: Grin.
Ince, S. (2012, Studentische Schriften): Entstehung religiöser Werte. Diskurs und Kommunikation der gesellschaftlichen Systeme, München: Grin.
Ince, S. (2012, Studentische Schriften): The 99 – Islamischer Comic? Eine kultur- und religionswissenschaftliche Analyse am Beispiel der 1. Ausgabe der arabischen Comicserie The 99, München: Grin.
Ince, S. (2012, Studentische Schriften): Ehe als Konversionsfaktor. Wie die Ehe zum Religionswechsel führen kann, München: Grin.
Ince, S. (2011, Studentische Schriften): Migration und Remigration unter Berücksichtigung der religiösen Faktoren, München: Grin.
Ince, S. (2010, Diplomarbeit an der Universität Ankara): Kuran'da psikolojik kavramların dilsel analizi [Sprachliche Analyse psychologischer Konzepte im Koran], München: Grin.
Ince, S. (2021, Unveröffentlichtes Skript als Begleitmaterial zur Vorlesung): Systematische Theologie – Argumentationstheoretische Einführung, Skript zur Vorlesung „Systematische Theologie und Philosophie“, Tübingen, 176 Seiten.