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Muslim Worlds - World of Islam? (BMBF-sponsored) | Single Project (DFG-sponsered)

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Muslim Worlds - World of Islam?
sponsored by Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)

The Centre's research programme currently comprises seven interdisciplinary projects, with twenty researchers working on different historical and cultural aspects of the "Modern Orient" since the 18th century. They explore the translocal movements of people, goods, symbols and ideas between the areas of the non-Western world and to Europe.

Concepts of World and Order

A Contest between worlds of Sport: competing patterns of order and forms of representation in body cultures in Africa and Asia

PD Dr. Katrin Bromber: Running at the top: East African competitive sports between national hallmarks, local bones of contention, and objects of supra-regional trade

Dyala Hamzah: The world(s) of Islam as articulated by the production and reception of the panislamic journal 'al-Manâr' (1898-1935)

Dr. Marloes Janson: The emergence of Chrislam in Lagos (Nigeria): moving towards >Islamic Pentecostalism<?

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Dr. Antía Mato Bouzas: Centre and peripheries: dynamics of interaction in South Asian borderlands

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Dr. Steffen Wippel: Tanger - Salalah: globalising "regional cities"

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Karin Mlodoch: Violence, memory and dealing with the past in Iraq: the example of the survivors of the Anfal operations in Kurdistan

PD Dr. Dietrich Reetz: Muslim global Networks

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Dr. Dina Wilkowsky: Contesting public spheres: "Discussion clubs" in Kazakhstan between Politics, Science and Islam

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Completed projects:

Dr. Marloes Janson: Operating within the global umma: Gambian Tablighis religious beliefs and practices

PD Dr. Christoph Herzog: Making sense of Turkish history: symbolic and interpretative uses of historiography in Turkey

Dr. Lutz Rogler: Normativity, ethics, social philosophy: the paradigm of maqasid al-sharia as the foundation of "universal" legal morals

Prof. Dr. Roman Loimeier: What is “Reform”? Muslim Movements of Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Negotiation of Modernity

Microcosms and the Practices of the Local

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag: Migration and the constitution of urbanity in Jeddah in the 19th century

Prof. Marc Baer: Cosmopolitanism and the end of Empire: The Dnme of Salonica

Britta Frede: Shaykhâni (Manna Abba ibn Muhammad at-Tulba, 1908-1986) and the revival of the Tijaniyya in Mauritania

Dr. Nora Lafi: Living together in the Ottoman City: rules, norms and conflict management patterns in Cairo, Aleppo and Tunis

Dr. Katharina Lange: The politics of memory in rural Syria: tribal histories of the Welde

Dr. Nitin Sinha: Circulation on the Ganges, 1700-1900

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Completed projects:

Dr. Florian Riedler: The newcomers and the old-established: creating urban life in late Ottoman Istanbul

Dr. Malte Fuhrmann: Being European in the late Ottoman port cities

Actors in Translocal Spaces

Dr. Chanfi Ahmed: From West Africa to Arabia. West African ulama in Mekka and Medina, 19th and 20th centuries

Dr. Heike Liebau: Competing Reading Rooms. Discourses and practices in dealing with printmedia in colonial India

Dr. Benjamin Zachariah: Indian exiles in Berlin, 1914-1945

Dr. Kai Kresse: Shifts of meaning Muslim discourses of reform and the practice of everyday life in postcolonial Mombasa

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Dr. Samuli Schielke: Imaginary cosmopolitans: engaging the world in provincial Egypt

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Dalila Nadi: Chinese migrants in Casablanca and Amman

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Sophie Roche: Youth and Identitiy in Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Islamic Fundamentalism among Young Tajik Men

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Completed projects:

Dr. Hassan Mwakimako: Changing times: Muslim religious debates in old and new cosmopolitan Mombasa and Nairobi

Dalila Nadi: The emergence of new translocal labor markets in Algeria

Bettina Gräf: Production and adaptation of fatwas in the era of electronic media with reference to the works of Yusuf al-Qaradawi

Dr. Knut Graw: Migration as postcolonial praxis: life histories and social theory from the African-European borderzone

Dr. Heike Liebau: The First World War in Indian public spheres: from perception of war to the reconfiguration of identities, world views and world orders

Joint Research Projects

SFB 640: Repräsentationen sozialer Ordnungen im Wandel

Subproject A7: Arabische Identitätspolitik - Identitätspolitik in Neuordnungsprozessen in Marokko und Irak
Project director: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag, Dr. Hegasy
Research assistants: Sophie Wagenhofer, Dr. Andrea Fischer-Tahi

Subproject A5: Europa-Repräsentationen und transnationale Öffentlichkeiten im Vergleich: Europa, arabische Welt, Russland, 1850er-1910er Jahre und 1990er Jahre
Project director: Prof. Freitag, Prof. Baberowski, Prof. Kaelble
Research assistants: Friedhelm Hoffmann, Benjamin Beuerle, Johan Grußendorf, Andreas Weiß

Joint Research Project "Muslime in Europa"

Head of the Project: PD Dr. Dietrich Reetz (ZMO). In cooperation with: the Universität Frankfurt/Oder (Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Prof. Dr. Werner Schiffauer), the Universität Hamburg (Religionspädagogik, Prof. Dr. Wolfram Weiße) and the Universität Halle (Südasienwissenschaften, Prof. Dr. Rahul Peter Das).

Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe

A collaborative researchprogramm of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

EUME International Summer Academy

Prof. Dr. Birgit Krawietz: System of sports rules and identity-creating practices in the Asian Islamic world
in Cooperation with the FU Berlin

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Dr. Elisabeth Boesen, Dr. Laurence Marfaing et Dr. Christine Hardung: Projet de coopération franco-allemand: La question du pouvoir dans les recompositions sociales et religieuses contemporaines de l’Afrique du Nord et de l’Ouest (PRANO)

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Single Projects
sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschafte (DFG):

Dr. Rana von Mende Altaylı: The debate on polygamy in the late Ottoman modernisation discourse.

Dr. Caterina Bori: Islamic pathways of reform: The reception of Ibn Taymiyya between the 16-18th centuries

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Completed projects:

Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS):
Dr. Patrick Desplat: Culturalization of religious practices and the local relevance of conspiracy theories