Sebastian Hanstein is head of the university's Research Center for Islamic Numismatics (FINT, est. 1990). As curator he supervises all research activities, the collections and the library connected to Islamic numismatics. He also regularly offers courses on numismatics and history at the Department of Oriental and Islamic Studies and students can complete internships at the FINT under his supervision. Since 2020 he has been serving as principal investigator in a project on Būyid coinage and numismatic maps (sikka:būya), among several others projects. His research interests include the (political) history of the Islamic world, especially of its eastern part, i.e. of the Iranian world (incl. Central Asia), before c. 1500 (with a focus on the 10th–13th cent.); Islamic codicology, epigraphy and numismatics (material culture); Arabic and Persian historiography. At the University of Leipzig, he studied Egyptology as well as Islamic studies, was a research fellow in the project “database-supported cataloguing, research and digital presentation of the Refaiya library” and, in 2018, completed his PhD about the political architecture of the Great Seljuq Empire under Sultan Sanjar.
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