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Academic Staff

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag
Director

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-0
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Field of research: Islamic networks in the Indian Ocean, urban and
intellectual history of the modern Middle East
Migration and the constitution of urbanity in Jeddah in the 19th century
Regional specialisation: Arabic countries (notably Bilad al-Sham and
Arabian Peninsula), Indian Ocean

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Dr. Kai Kresse
Research Fellow and Vice Director for Research Development

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-218
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Field of research: Shifts of meaning - Muslim discourses of reform and the practice of everyday life in postcolonial Mombasa
Regional specialisation: Ostafrica, particularly Mombasa and Kenyan Swahili coast

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Dr. Sonja Hegasy
Vice Director and Head External Relations

Head of the project (together with Prof. Ulrike Freitag) "Identity Politics in Changing Societies of Morocco and of Iraq" at the SFB 640

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-223
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Field of research: civil society, intercultural dialogue, politics of memory, globalization / world society
Regional specialisation: Arabic countries

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Leyla von Mende
Academic assistant to the director

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Regina Sarreiter
Public relation assistant to the director

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Dr. Chanfi Ahmed

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-113
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Field of research: From West Africa to Arabia. West African ulama in Mekka and Medina (19th and 20th centuries).
Regional specialisation: East Africa, Arabic countries

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Prof. Marc Baer

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-239
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Field of research:Cosmopolitanism and the end of Empire: The Dönme of Salonica
Regional specialisation: Eastern Mediterranean Region

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PD Dr. Katrin Bromber

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-237
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Field of research: Running at the Top: East African Competitive Sports between National Hallmark, Local Bone of Contention, and Object of Supra-Regional Trade.
Regional specialisation: East Africa, Indian Ocean

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Dr. Caterina Bori

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Field of research: Islamic pathways of reform: The reception of Ibn Taymiyya between the 16-18th centuries

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Dr. Andrea Fischer-Tahir

Phone: +49-(0)30-2093-4898
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Adress: HU-Berlin: Mohrenstr. 40/41, 10117 Berlin

Field of Research: Inside, Outside: Gender and Representation in Urban Society of Iraqi Kurdistan, SFB 640 Humboldt University Berlin: "Identity Politics in Changing Societies of Morocco and of Iraq"

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Britta Frede

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-115
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Field of research: Shaykhâni (Manna Abba ibn Muhammad at-Tulba, 1908-1986) and the Revival of the Tijaniyya in Mauritania.
Regional specialisation: Maghreb, West Africa, especially Mauritania

Dr. Dyala Hamzah

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-238
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Field of research: The World(s) of Islam as articulated by the production and reception of the Panislamic journal 'al-Manâr' (1898-1935)
Regional specialisation: Arabic countries


Friedhelm Hoffmann

Phone: +49-(0)30-2093-4838
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Adress: HU-Berlin: Mohrenstr. 40/41, 10117 Berlin

Field of research: Transnational Public Spheres in Comparison - Europe, the Arab World and Russia. SFB 640 der HU Berlin: Repräsentationen sozialer Ordnungen im Wandel, Interkulturelle und intertemporäre Vergleiche
Regional specialisation: Arabic countries, Europe

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Dr. Marloes Janson

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-249
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Field of research: The Emergence of Chrislam in Lagos (Nigeria): Moving Towards "Islamic Pentecostalism"
Regional specialisation: West-Africa, particularly Gambia

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Dr. Nora Lafi

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-239
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Field of research: Living together in the Ottoman City: Rules, Norms and Conflict Management patterns in Cairo, Aleppo and Tunis

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Dr. Katharina Lange

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-222
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Field of research: The politics of memory in rural Syria: tribal histories of the Welde
Regional specialisation: Arabic countries

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Dr. Heike Liebau

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-226
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Field of research: Competing reading rooms. Discourses and practices in dealing with printmedia in colonial India
Regional specialisation: South Asia

Dr. Antía Mato Bouzas

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-217
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Field of research: Centre and peripheries: dynamics of interaction in South Asian borderlands
Regional specialisation: South Asia

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Karin Mlodoch

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-109
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Field of research: Violence, memory and dealing with the past in Iraq: The example of the survivors of the Anfal-operations in Kurdistan
Regional specialisation: Iraq, Kurdistan

Dalila Nadi

Telefon: +49-(0)30-80307-253
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Field of research: Chinese migrants in Casablanca and Amman

PD Dr. Dietrich Reetz

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-116
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Field of research: Muslim global Networks
Regional specialisation: South Asia, Europe

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Sophie Roche

Field of research: Youth and Identitiy in Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Islamic Fundamentalism among Young Tajik Men

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Trenner

Dr. Samuli Schielke

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-120
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Field of research: Imaginary cosmopolitans: Engaging the world in provincial Egypt
Regional specialisation: Egypt

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Dr. Nitin Sinha

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-114
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Field of research: Circulation on the Ganges, 1700-1900
Regional specialisation: South Asia

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Dr. Rana von Mende Altaylı

Telefon: +49-(0)30-80307-239
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Field of research: The debate on polygamy in the late Ottoman modernisation discourse
Regional specialisation: Turkey, Ottoman Empire

Sophie Wagenhofer

Phone: +49-(0)30-2093-4898
HU-Berlin: Mohrenstr. 40/41, 10117 Berlin
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Field of research: "Identity Politics in Changing Societies of Morocco and of Iraq" (SFB 640, Humboldt University Berlin)
Regional specialisation: Arabic countries

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Dr. Dina Wilkowsky

Phone: +49(0)30-80307-220
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Field of research:Contesting public spheres: "Discussion clubs" in Kazakhstan between Politics, Science and Islam

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Dr. Steffen Wippel

Telefon: +49(0)30-80307-231
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Field of research: Tanger - Salalah: Globalising "Regional Cities"
Regional specialisation: Marocco, Mauratania, Arabian Peninsula

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Dr. Benjamin Zachariah

Phone: +49(0)30-80307-244
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Field of research: Indian exiles in Berlin, 1914-1945
Regional specialisation: South Asia

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Technical Staff

Svenja Becherer
Publications

Phone: +49-(0)30-80307-228
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Petra Engler
Caretaker

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Dr. Silke Nagel
Office

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Dr. Thomas Ripper
Library

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Ursula Benzin
Library

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Trenner

Michael Schutz
Computing

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Student Assistants

Heba Ahmed
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Nadja Benakezouh
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Philipp Dehne
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Liese Hoffmann
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Mounia Jammal
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Johanna Klauke
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Eva Langerbeck
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Irina Lofink
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Tobias Mörike
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Nura N’Galamulume-Treves
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Zoé Oßwald
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Larissa Schmid
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Juliane Sievert
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Julian Tadesse
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Doreen Teumer
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Ute Theel
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Jolita Zabarskaite
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Christoph Zelke
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Stephanie Zöllner
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collective Phone Number: +49-(0)30-80307-235