Leonie Rau, M.A.

Leonie Rau will join the Research School "Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities" at Berlin's Max Planck Institute for the History for Science as a doctoral student in October 2023, working on pre- and early modern Arabic recipe collections. Currently, she is a research assistant at Tübingen's FID Religious Studies.

She received her MA in Islamic and Midde Eastern Studies from the University of Tübingen.

Reviews

Ghosn, Katia / Tadié, Benoît (Eds.): Le récit criminal arabe/Arabic Crime Fiction. In: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 117:1 (2022), 68–70.

Faiq, Said (Hg.): Arabic Translation across Discourses. In: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 117:4-5 (2022): 399–402.

Further publications

"What Culinary History Can Teach Us: Tracing Dishes Through the Library of Arabic Literature," Library of Arabic Literature Blog (24/02/2023), https://www.libraryofarabicliterature.org/2023/culinary-history-arabic-literature/.

“A Snake Oil from Tenth Century al-Andalus,” The Recipe Project (07/02/2022), https://recipes.hypotheses.org/18336.

"Of Figs and Grapes,” ArabLit Quarterly 4:2 (2021): 60–63.

• Arabic recipe literature
• transmission of practical knowledge in the premodern Arabic world
• modern Arabic literature, especially from the Maghreb
• translation as academic and literary practice