Besnik Sinani

Office

Liebermeisterstraße 18, 72076 Tübingen, 5th level, Room 521
+49 7071 29-75387
besnik.sinanispam prevention@uni-tuebingen.de

Sprechzeiten
on appointment

Kurzvita

Center for Muslim Theology, Tübingen University.

Leibniz – Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin.

Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.

Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near East Studies, New York University

City University of New York

Das Konigshaus mit neuer Mission”, Welt-Sichten, 21. 08. 2019. pp. 24-27. (The Royal Family with a New Mission).

“Entertainment as a Marker of Religious Reform in Saudi Arabia”, CRSI Blog – University of Oxford, 13. 07. 2019. https://crsi.theology.ox.ac.uk/article/entertainment-as-a-marker-of-religious-reform-in-saudi-arabia
“Stresstest für Salafisten”, Zenith, 06.06.2019. pp.74-77. (Pressure-test for Salafis).

"Albania", in European Islamophobia Report 2016, Enes Bayrakli and Farid Hafez eds., (Istanbul: SETA, 2017)

“Post Salafism: The Internal Revisionism and the Political Changes Transforming Saudi Salafism” in Religions Journal, Special Issue Editors W. Rory Dickinson and Meena Sharify-Funk (forthcoming).
“Devotional Extremism: Muḥammad ʿAlawī al-Mālikī and the Debate over the Glorification of the Prophet in Saudi Arabia”, in The Presence of the Prophet: Muhammad in the mirror of his community in early modern and modern Islam, Stephan Reichmuth et. al. eds., in "Handbuch der Orientalistik" Brill Series (forthcoming).
“In the Path of the Ancestors: The Ba ‘Alawi Sufi Order and the Struggle for Shaping the Future of Islam.” in Global Sufism: Boundaries, Structures, and Politics, Mark Sedgwick and Francesco Piraino eds., (London: Hurst, 2019).
“The Return of Islam in South East Europe: Debating Islam and Islamic Practices of Family Law in Albania and Kosovo.” in, Applying Sharia in the West; Facts Fear and the Future of Islamic Rules on Family Relations in the West, Maurits S. Berger ed., (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2013).

DAVO (German Association of Middle Eastern Studies) Dissertation Award, 2021
Fritz Thyssen Foundation Fellowship (2020-2021) Awarded for Postdoctoral Research at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) Berlin.
German Federal Excellency Program (2016 – 2020) Awarded to Doctoral Fellows at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies.
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship (2008 – 2010) United States Department of State, Awarded towards the pursuit of an MA at New York University.
Critical Language Scholarship (CLS), Summer 2007. United States Department of State.

Awarded to continue the study of Arabic in Tangier, Morocco.

Ward Medal for Excellency in Social Studies. May 2007 Awarded by the Department of Social Studies, City College of New York.
Winston Scholarship for Study Abroad. Winter 2005. Awarded by the International Studies Program at City College of New York in support of studies at the Center for Cross-Cultural Learning in Rabat, Morocco.