Dr. des. Dyala Hamzah
Born 25 January 1967 in Beirut (Lebanon)
Mother of 3 children
A French citizen and a resident of Berlin
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Education | Academic grants and positions | Research interests | Languages | Publications | Conference Papers |
Education 
Since 2011: Habilitation in History
(Free University of Berlin)
2008 : Doctorate in History and Islamic Studies
(EHESS, Paris and Free University of Berlin)
1996-97 : Graduate Studies in Political Science
Sciences Po, Paris
1996 : M. Phil. (DEA) in Philosophy
Sorbonne (Paris)
1994 : Agrégation (2nd Teachers’ Qualification Exam) in Philosophy
1993 : CAPES (1st Teachers’ Qualification Exam) in Philosophy
1992 : Masters in Philosophy
Sorbonne (Paris)
1990-1992 : Seminar ‘Philosophy and Islam’ (Prof. J. Jolivet)
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris)
1990 : Masters in American Literature
Sorbonne (Paris)
1990 : BA in Philosophy
Sorbonne (Paris)
1989 : BA in English
Sorbonne (Paris)
1986-89 : Preparatory classes to the entrance examination of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Eligible)
Lycée Lakanal (Sceaux)
1985 : French and International Baccalaureates
Ecole Active Bilingue J. M. (Paris)
Academic grants and positions
Teaching
Summer semester 2012 (Apr.-Jul.) – Adjunct Professor
Free University of Berlin, Institute of Islamic Studies;
Graduate Seminar: “The Nahda“
Winter semester 2008/2009 (Okt.-Feb.) - Adjunct Professor
Free University of Berlin, Institute of Islamic Studies, Undergraduate seminar and Tutorial:
“Historical Semantics from a Global History Perspective: an Introduction”
Summer semester 2008 (Apr.-Jul.) – Teaching Assistant
Free University of Berlin, Institute of Islamic Studies
Graduate Seminar “Al-Azhar 1760-1850”
September 1996 - July 1997: High-School Teacher of philosophy
Lycée Richelieu - Rueil-Malmaison
February - July 1996: Philosophy Instructor (Course in Theory of Education)
Gaza University – The Gaza Strip
September 1994 - July 1996: French Language Instructor
Birzeit University – The West Bank
September 1993 - July 1994: High-School Teacher of philosophy
Lycée Experimental – Sèvres
Research
30 June 2011 - 1 May 2014: DFG Research Fellowship
Research Unit “Actors of Cultural Globalization 1860-1930”
Free University of Berlin / Zentrum Moderner Orient
1 April 2008 – 31 May 2011: BmBF Post-Doc Research Fellowship
Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin
1 April 2004 - 31 March 2008: DFG Part-Time Research Fellowship
Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin
October 2001- March 2004: DAAD Doctoral Grant,
Free University of Berlin
15-28 July 2001 and 04-17 Aug. 2002: SIAS Fellow
(A. v. Humboldt and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations): Summer Institute "Public Spheres and Muslim Identities": Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin and Dartmouth College, USA
Editorship
September 1997 - August 2001 - Head of the publications department
and Chief Editor of Egypte/Monde Arabe
CEDEJ – Cairo
Research interests
Intellectual and social history of the Middle East (18th-20th centuries);
Islamic law, historiography and philosophy;
Conceptual history, critical theory.
Languages
French, English and Arabic (fluent)
German (very good reading and spoken knowledge)
Publications
Books
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Ms. under preparation, Muhammad Rashîd Ridâ (1865-1935) ou le "Tournant
salafiste" :Intérêt général, Islam et opinion publique dans l'Egypte coloniale.
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2001, Al-Fârâbî, Abû Nasr, Al-Risâla fî-l-‘aql. (Annotated translation with
introduction: Dyala Hamzah). Paris: L’Harmattan.
Edited Volumes
- 2012, Dyala Hamzah (Ed.), The Making of the Arab Intellectual (1880-1960:
Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood (London, Routledge,
forthcoming).
- 2010, R. Ahuja, K. Bromber, D. Hamzah, K. Lange & H. Liebau (Eds.), The World
in World Wars: Perspectives, Perceptions and Experiences from the South (Leiden,
Brill).
- 2000, Dyala Hamzah (Ed.), "La Censure, ou comment la contourner: Dire et ne pas
dire en Égypte aujourd’hui", Égypte/Monde arabe 3(1/2000).
Encyclopaedia Entries
- 2012, “Islah,” in: Houari Touati et al., Encyclopédie des traditions humanistes
arabes et islamiques, Paris: EHESS (forthcoming)
- 2011, “Rida, Rashid,” in: Gerhard Bowering, Patricia Crone, Wadad Kadi, Devin J.
Stewart, Muhammad Qasim Zaman (Eds.), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
Articles
- 2012, "From ‘Ilm to Sihafa or the Politics of the Public Interest (Maslaha):
Muhammad Rashîd Rida and his journal al-Manar (1898-1935)," in: Dyala Hamzah
(Ed.), The Making of the Arab Intellectual (1880-1960: Empire, Public Sphere and the Colonial Coordinates of Selfhood, London: Routledge (forthcoming).
- 2010, « Introduction », with R. Ahuja, K. Bromber, D. Hamzah, K. Lange & H. Liebau (eds.), The World in World Wars: Perspectives, Perceptions and Experiences from the South (Leiden, Brill), pp. 1-25.
- 2008, "Muhammad Rashid Rida or: The Importance of Being (a) Journalist", in:
Heike Bock, Jörg Feuchter & Michi Knecht (Eds.), Religion and its Other: Secular
and Sacral Concepts and Practices in Interaction (Frankfurt am Main & New York:
Campus): 40-63.
- 2008, "Lutte nationale ou fondation étatique? Les intellectuels palestiniens
d’Oslo I à Intifada II". In: M. Zeghal (Ed.) Intellectuels de l’Islam contemporain :
réformismes, libéralismes et nouveaux débats - Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée n°123 : 161-177.
- 2007, "Nineteenth-Century Egypt as Dynastic Locus of Universality: The History of
Muhammad Ali by Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Rajabi (d. 1829)", Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 27.1 (2007): 62-82.
- 2006, "La pensée de ‘Abduh à l'âge utilitaire: l'intérêt général entre maslaha et
manfa‘a". In: M. Charif et S. Mervin (Eds.), Modernités islamiques, Damascus:
IFPO: 29-52.
- 2005, "Is There An Arab Public Sphere? The Palestinian Intifada, a Saudi Fatwa and
the Egyptian Press". In: Armando Salvatore & Mark LeVine (Eds.), Religion, Social Practice, and Contested Hegemonies: Reconstructing the Public Sphere in Muslim Majority Societies, New York: Palgrave MacMillan: 181-206.
- 2000, "La Censure, ou comment la contourner: Dire et ne pas dire en Égypte
aujourd’hui", Égypte/Monde arabe 3(1/2000): 11-23.
Book reviews
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„Katrin Bromber, Imperiale Propaganda. Die Ostafrikanische Militärpresse im
Zweiten Weltkrieg, ZMO Studien/Klaus Schwarz Verlag Berlin, in: Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, forthcoming.
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„Friedhelm Hoffmann, Die Syro-Palästinensische Delegation am Völkerbund und
Sakib Arslan in Genf 1921-1936/46, LIT Verlag, 2007, 206 p.“, in: Revue des
Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, forthcoming.
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„Dagmar Glaß, Der Muqtataf und seine Öffentlichkeit. Aufklärung, Räsonnement
und Meinungsstreit in der frühen arabischen Zeitschriftenkommunikation (2 vols.),
Würzburg: Ergon, 2004, 749 p.“ In: Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, no.121-122, April 2008: 296-301.
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“Peter Mandaville, Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma, London:
Routledge, 2001, 235 p.” In: The Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 39(1),
June 2005: 117-119.
Manuscript reviews
- For the American Historical Review (ARH)
Conference papers
- “Scholarship against the Odds? The Berlin Years (1936-1939) of Palestinian Pan-Arab Historian Darwish al-Miqdadi (1897-1961)”, International Conference ‘European Totalitarianism in the Mirrors of Contemporary Arabic Thought’, Orient Institut Beirut, 6-8 octobre 2010.
- “Professionalization as nexus of reform and self-reform. A Pan-Islamist and a Pan-
Arabist in light of their life trajectories”, WOCMES, Panel : Muslim World, World
of Islam. Dynamics of Reform: Historical and Biographical Dimensions. 18-24 July
2010, Barcelona.
- “Scholarship against the Odds? The Berlin Years (1936-1939) of Palestinian Pan-
Arab Historian Darwish al-Miqdadi (1897-1961)”, Workshop: Out of Place or
Belonging?, Panel 3: Exile Communities in Interwar Europe, Zentrum Moderner Orient,
Berlin, 1-3 July 2010
- Guest lecture within the seminar "Religion, politics and science in global society”,
University of Trondheim, “What do we mean with “Islamic” concepts? The example of maslaha ‘âmma (public interest) and the problem of translation”, 28 January 2010.
- Doctoral Seminar, Institute for cultural and oriental studies, University of Oslo /
KULTRANS: "Conceptual History in a Global Context." Title of presentation:
“Is Conceptual History in/of The Modern Middle East Possible? The example
of maslaha 'âmma (public interest) and some of the thornier issues of historiography”,
25-27 January 2010.
- “Concepts of the Social and the Economic in Turn of the 20th century Egypt: al-hay’aal-ijtimâ‘iyya, al-manâfi’ al-‘umûmiyya, and the ‘âmma/khâssa dichotomy
revisited”. Social and Economic Concepts in Eurasian Comparison. Third Meeting of
the International Research Group on Conceptual History and Global Translations,
Berlin, 19-22 October 2009.
- “Conceptualizations of the Social in Turn of the 20th century Egypt: al-hay’a al-ijtimâ‘iyya and the ‘âmma/khâssa dichotomy revisited”. The Social in a Global Comparative
Perspective of Conceptual History, Second Meeting of the International Research Group
on Conceptual History and Global Translations Bangkok, 2-4 March 2009 (participation cancelled).
- “Reporting the World to the Umma: Muhammad Rashîd Ridâ’s al-Manâr, Panislam
and “the interests of humanity”, American Historical Association Annual Conference,
Panel convened by Ariel Salzmann, New York, 2-5 January 2009.
- “Conceptualizations of the Social in Turn of the 20th century Egypt”. The Social in a Global Comparative Perspective of Conceptual History, First Meeting of the International Research
Group on Conceptual History and Global Translations Helsinki, 2-4 October 2008.
- “Misr, Kinânatu-allah fî ardih or: Early 19th-Century Egypt (Re)Invented?”, Panel:
Before Nationalism: Land and Loyalty in the Middle East (S: Tamari), MESA Annual
Conference, Montreal, Canada, 17-20 November 2007.
- “From reform to the public interest, across the colonial caesura (Egypt, 19th-20th
century)”. Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA,
15 November 2007.
- “From reform (islâh) to public interest (maslaha), across the colonial caesura
(Egypt, 19th-20th century)”. The 10th Annual International Conference on
Conceptual History: Transnational Concepts, Transfers and the Challenge of the
Peripheries, Panel: Concepts and their appropriation: the notion of reform (M.
Pernau). Technical University, Istanbul, 30 August – 2 September 2007.
- From religious knowledge (‘ilm) to journalism (sihâfa) or the genealogy and
epistemology of the salafi turn. Muhammad Rashîd Ridâ (1865-1935) and his
Journal al-Manâr (1898-1935). International Conference of the SFB 640, Religion
and its Other: Secular and Sacral Concepts, Objects and Practices in Interaction.
Humboldt University, Berlin, 30 March – 1 April 2007.
- "From ‘ilm to sihâfa or the genealogy and epistemology of the salafi turn.
Muhammad Rashîd Ridâ (1865-1935) and his Journal al-Manâr (1898-
1935)". Global Communication of Fundamentalist Knowledge Conference,
panel: "Fundamentalism and Exegesis" (D. Katz). NTNU, Trondheim, 14-16
December 2006.
- "Governmentality and Epidemics. Muhammad Ali's 19th Century Health Reforms in
Egypt (1820-1850)". Colloquium Afrikanum (Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig), Universität zu
Köln, 31 October 2006.
- "Translocality reloaded" (with K. Bromber). Translocality: An Approach to
Globalising Phenomena?, ZMO Tenth Anniversary Conference, Round Table
Discussion: "Translocality and Hermeneutic Practice: any Fusion of Horizons?" (K.
Kresse, B. Janz, M. Lambek, A. v. Oppen). Berlin, 26-28 September 2006.
- "For whom the Press Rolls: Modern Manuscripts and Medieval Books in
Muhammad ‘Alî’s Egypt". Workshop of the Arbeitskreises Moderne und Islam, To
Print or not to Print? Knowledge Diffusion in the 18th and 19th Century Arabic,
Turkish, and Persian-Speaking Worlds (D.Sajdi). Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 5-6
May 2006.
- "Réception comparée du réformisme en France et en Allemagne: le cas de Rashîd
Ridâ (1865-1935)". Workshop (CHSIM/CRIA/CMB): Textes arabes en Allemagne
et en France : traductions, lectures scientifiques et réceptions culturelles, effets de
retour (19-20 siècles). Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, 28 April 2006.
- "Intellectuels et militants palestiniens entre Oslo I et Intifada II : entre lutte
nationale et construction étatique" (with Pénélope Larzillière). ACI International
Symposium, Territoires et imaginaires dans le nationalisme palestinien. Centre Marc
Bloch, Berlin, 13-14 January, 2006.
- "La pensée de ‘Abduh à l'âge utilitaire : l'intérêt général entre maslaha et manfa‘a".
IFPO, International Symposium on the centennial anniversary of Muhammad ‘Abduh’s death , Aleppo, 9-10 November 2005.
- "Discourses of Legitimation in the Reforming Muslim Mediterranean: The Singular
Voice of the Egyptian `alim Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Rajabi (d. 1829?)". MESA
2004, panel: "Rethinking Reform, Reforming Narratives of History in the Muslim
Mediterranean, 18th-early 20th Centuries" (J. Clancy-Smith). San Fransisco, 20-23
November, 2004.
- "Assumptions of Universality of a Nineteenth-Century Egyptian Scholar (Fî sha’n
târîkh al-wazîr Muhammad ‘Alî of Khalîl ibn Ahmad al-Rajabî, m.1824)". ZMO
Workshop South-South Linkages in Islam (B. Dennerlein & D. Reetz). Berlin, 5-6
November, 2004.
- "Is There An Arab Public Sphere? The Palestinian Intifada, A Saudi Fatwa And The
Egyptian Press". SSRC, The Beirut Conference on Public Spheres, panel: "Socio-
Religious Movements and the Transformation of the Public Sphere: Palestine,
Lebanon, and Beyond" (A. Salvatore, M. LeVine). Beirut, 20-22 October 2004.
- "Legal rationale and the military: the case of Egypt in the early 19th century". 29.
Deutscher Orientalistentag, panel: "Perspektiven auf Krieg und Gesellschaft in
Marokko, Ägypten und im Osmanischen Reich 18.- Anfang 20. Jahrhundert" (Ch.
Herzog), im Arbeitsfeld Geschichte der Sektion Islamwissenschaften. Halle, 20-24
September 2004.
- "Rashîd Ridâ (1865-1935): 'Âlim, Islamic Reformer or Journalist? Genre, Class and
the New Intellectual Craft During the Nahda". Fourth Mediterranean Political and
Social Meeting, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, workshop: "Towards
a Theory of the Mediterranean Intellectual: Modernity and Axes of Thought in
the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa (1850-1950)" (K. Watenpaugh & D.
Hamzah). Florence, 19–23 March 2003.
- "Defining The Public Interest in Egypt at the Turn of the 20th Century: What
Genealogies?". WOCMES, Symposium: "The Interrelatedness of Intellectual Trends
in the Modern Mediterranean" (R. Deguilhem and B. Schäbler). Mainz, 9-12
September 2002.
- "Intifâda’s Fidâ’ : Suicide or Martyrdom? Transnationalist Icons, Islamic Consultation
and some notions of Modern Polity". Third Mediterranean Political and Social
Meeting, Robert Schuman Center for Advanced Studies, Workshop: "Islamic
movements and discourses in local, national and transnational public spheres" (A.
Salvatore & A. Hamzawi). Florence, 20-24 March 2002.
- "Quel intérêt public pour l’Egypte du troisième millénaire?", IAMES, 7th Congress,
Berlin, 4-8 October 2000.
- "Le chercheur et son terrain". 2e Rencontres de Jeunes Chercheurs (IRMCUniversité
de Tunis). Tunis, 1998.
- "Généalogie des champs politique et religieux en Islam: maslaha entre ‘ibâdât et
mu‘âmalât". AFEMAM: Lyon, 1998.
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