Team
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lejla Demiri
Head
Liebermeisterstraße 18, 72076 Tübingen
6th level, Room 608
lejla.demiri@zith.uni-tuebingen.de
+49 7071 29-75367 (Secretariat)
Jennah G. Sari-Keskingöz
Secretary
Liebermeisterstraße 18, 72076 Tübingen
6th level, Room 611
sekretariat-glaubenslehre@zith.uni-tuebingen.de
+49 7071 29-75367
Dr. Serkan Ince
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Liebermeisterstraße 18, 72076 Tübingen
6th level, Room 605
Abdullah Rıdvan Gökbel
Doctoral Research Fellow
FOR 2828, TP 04
Liebermeisterstraße 18, 72076 Tübingen
6th level, Room 605
Lea Schlenker
Doctoral Research Fellow
FOR 2828, TP 04
Liebermeisterstraße 18, 72076 Tübingen
6th level, Room 605
PhD candidates
Are you interested in doing a PhD in the areas of Systematic Theology/Kalam or Interfaith Studies under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Lejla Demiri? Please send your application and/or questions to the Chair Secretariat, including your research proposal (max. 5 pages), writing samples, a CV, and two references.
Current PhD candidates
Aybe Nur Durgun Badat
“A Path to Planetary Well-being: The Practice of Tafakkur (Contemplation) in Nature” (since 2023)
Dr. phil. habil. Claire Gallien
Taqsîm al-‘ulûm Literature in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Islamic World. Classification, Friction, and Epistemic Holism in Islam" (since 2021)
Abdullah Gökbel
"Christians in the Legal Thought of Ibn Kemal (d. 940/1534)" (since 2022)
Hiroaki Kawanishi
“Diversity within Islam: Inner-Islamic Discourses in the Early Modern Muslim World with a Special Focus on the Ottoman Reception of Sanūsī’s Kalām” (since 2018)
Ertul Ortabas
Aḥmad b. ʿUmar al-Qurṭubī’s (d. 656/1258) Theology and Response to a Christian Letter from Toledo”. (Since 2020)
Lea Schlenker
"Theology at the Table. A study of everyday theology on sharing meals in Sunni adab works and Lutheran hymns" (since 2022)
Completed PhD dissertations
Dr. Serkan Ince
“Argumentation und erkenntnistheoretische Prinzipien der al-Radd ʿalā al-Naṣārā-Literatur unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Werkes des Ṣāliḥ ibn Ḥusayn al-Jaʿfarī (gest. 668/1270)” (supervised 2013-2020; defended on 15 July 2020)
Dr. Florian Lützen
“Der Religionsbegriff (dīn) bei Aḥmad Ibn ʿAğība (gest. 1223/1809) und die Stellung der išāra: Eine Untersuchung der Methode und Zielsetzung des Religionsbegriffs aus sufischer Perspektive” (supervised 2015-2018; defended on 3 July 2018)
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Visiting Scholars
The Chair of Islamic Doctrine welcomes opportunities to host international scholars and students. Facilitating research activities, the Institute offers access to a host of resources for promoting scholarly excellence, and the opportunity to conduct world class theological research in a highly collaborative and collegial context. For more information on how to join our visiting programme please contact the Chair Secretariat.
Former Fellows
Dr. Dženita Karić
Teach@Tübingen Fellow (SS 2019 and WS 2019-20)
Dr. Vladimir Lasica
Teach@Tübingen Fellow (WS 2016-17 and SS 2017)
Dr. Amina Nawaz
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Yazid Said
Teach@Tübingen Fellow (SS 2015, WS 2015-16 and SS 2016); Participant in the Tübingen Reloaded Programme (Summer 2019)
Dr. Mujadad Zaman
Postdoctoral Research Fellow 2016–2023