Orient- und Islamwissenschaft

Biography

since 2020

Professor of Islamic History and Culture, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Tübingen

2018-2020

Professor of Arabic Studies, Seminar for Semitic and Arabic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

2016-2018

SNSF professor, Insitute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Islamic Studies, University of Zürich

Project: "Between Religion and Alchemy. The scholar Ibn Arfa‘ Ra’s (d. 1197) as a model for an integrative Arabic literary and cultural history“

2015

Habilitation, Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

Venia legendi: Arabic and Islamic Studies

Thesis: „Wissensvermittlung im Gespräch. Eine Studie zu klassisch-arabischen Dialogen“ ("Talking for the transfer of knowledge. A study into Classical Arabic dialogues")

Oral presentation: „Palästina als Frau? Nation und Gender bei Maḥmūd Darwīš“ ("Palestine as a woman? Nation and gender in the work of Maḥmūd Darwīsh")

2008-2018

Junior professor of Arabic, Freie Universität Berlin
(positiv evaluation: 2011; on leave 2016-2018)

2007-2008

Scholarship for Advanced Research from the Swiss National Science Foundation
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford

2001-2007

Junior Lecturer (“wissenschaftliche Assistentin”) for German Literature up to 1700
Institute for German Studies, University of Zurich

2005

Doctor philosophiae (Dr. phil.), University of Zurich
PhD thesis: “Das Geheimnis der Geheimnisse. Die arabischen und deutschen Fassun­gen des pseudo-aristotelischen Sirr al-asrār / Secretum secretorum” (referees: Prof Paul Michel, Prof Ulrich Rudolph)

1994-2000

Studied German, Arabic, and Philosophy (Universities of Zürich, Tübingen and Birzeit)

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