Research project:
Sufi Fundamentalists: Al-Ahbash transnational Sufi network in Western Europe
Regional focus:
Post-Soviet countries, especially Ukraine and Russia
Current research:
Scholarly Ways. Mobility, Knowledge Production and Research Capacity Building Between Europe and the Middle East
Regional focus:
Arab Middle East, especially Syria; GDR
Research project:
"The History of German participation in the European colonial endeavor with a focus on India"
Research project:
Return of the Spirit: Mysticism in Modern Arabic Thought, 1919-1967
Regional focus:
Central Asia, especially Kyrgyzstan, Russia
Regional focus:
India, Indian Ocean