Researh Fellow from April 2004 until June 2012.

Research Projects: Discourses of Legitimation in the Age of Reform - The Azhar, the Army and Egyptian Expansionism, 1822-1882; The World(s) of Islam as articulated by the production and reception of the Pan-Islamic journal al-manar (1898-1935);

And at DFG-Joint Project „Akteure der kulturellen Globalisierung“ with the Project: Societies, Scouts and Schoolbooks for the Arab Nation. A case study of Pan-Arabist Darwish al-Miqdadi (1897-1961)