GSC 153:  Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies

• Subject Area: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Non-European Cultures, Jewish Studies and Religious Studies
• Term: from 2007 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 38908493

• Final Report Year: 2019

Final Report Abstract

The Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies investigates the plurality, changeability, and global connectedness of Muslim cultures and societies past and present. In a comparative way, it examines concepts, practices, and institutions variously understood as Islamic. Geographically, the Graduate School covers a broad spectrum: in addition to the Middle East, our research focuses on sub-Saharan Africa; Central, South, and Southeast Asia; and Muslim communities in Europe and North America. The Graduate School systematically combines and connects approaches from the humanities and social sciences in its research activities. This is reflected in the multidisciplinary composition of researchers and research projects. We thus offer supervision of doctoral projects in numerous discipline-based departments and area studies: Arabic Studies, Asian and African Studies, Central Asian Studies, History, Human Geography, Islamic Studies, Political Science, Semitic Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, South and Southeast Asian Studies, and Southeast European History. Research projects at our Graduate School address in particular strategies of dealing with diversity, difference, and distinction in a wide range of fields, be they religious, cultural, ethnic, social, economic, or political. They do this through one or more of the three focal areas of texts, objects, and practices. Texts form an important nexus through which diversity is negotiated within Muslim communities and societies. This negotiation occurs at all stages of textual production as well as during the reception and re-use of textual material. We understand the concept of text in a broad way: orally transmitted, written, or alternating between both modes. Objects can be used as key points of entry into understanding the ways in which Muslim communities deal with diversity and difference. This includes analysing material culture with reference to its discursive function as well as investigating the role of objects in social interactions. Our research in this area explores broader questions of power relations and the way these might affect various actors’ approaches to dealing with diversity. Possible research topics include perceptions of difference, individual strategies of dealing with diversity, and practices of enacting difference and hybridity. We support our doctoral candidates with a research-oriented curriculum. Our courses are designed to balance specialised research in a given field of study with multidisciplinary training. Our three-year modular programme offers supportive structures and provides sufficient time for field or archival research and writing. Our study programme includes colloquia, research seminars and workshops, language training and soft skills courses, regular meetings with supervisors, financial support for research and conference travel, as well as workspaces at the Graduate School. With more than half of our fellows coming from abroad, we offer a diverse and international environment for our candidates’ doctoral studies.

Link to the final report

https://doi.org/10.2314/KXP:1698288638

Publications

• 2014. “Tablīghī Jamā‘at.” In Islamic Movements in Europe: Perspectives on Public Religion and Islamophobia, eds. Frank Peter and Rafael Ortega. London: I.B. Tauris, 30–36
  Reetz, Dietrich
  
• 2009. Hasan al-Banna. Makers of the Muslim World. Oxford, New York: OneWorld. ISBN 978-1851684304
  Krämer, Gudrun
  
• 2010. Imām Yaḥyā Ḥamīd ad-Dīn und die Juden in Ṣanʿāʾ (1904 - 1948): Die Dimension von Schutz (Dhimma) in den Dokumenten der Sammlung des Rabbi Sālim b. Saʿīd al-Ǧamal. Vol. 9 of Studies on modern Yemen. Dissertation. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz. ISBN 9783879973699
  Hünefeld, Kerstin
  
• 2011. Kausalität in der Mu'tazilitischen Kosmologie: Das Kitāb al-Mu'aththirāt wa-miftāḥ al-muškilāt des Zayditen al-Ḥasan ar-Raṣṣāṣ (st. 584/1188). Dissertation. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004212053
  Thiele, Jan
  
• 2011. Ottoman Painting: Reflections of Western Art from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 9781848852884
  Shaw, Wendy
  
• 2011. Social Dynamics 2.0: Researching Change in Times of Media Convergence. Vol. 8 of Internationale und Interkulturelle Kommunikation. Case studies from the Middle East and Asia. Berlin: Frank & Timme. ISBN 9783865963222
  Gräf, Bettina, and Nadja-Christina Schneider, eds.
  
• 2012. "The Hand that Rocks the Cradle is the Hand that Rules the World": An Analysis of Muḥammad Quṭb's Portrayal of Feminism as a Jewish Conspiracy [eng]. Vol. 24 of Bonner islamwissenschaftliche Hefte. Dissertation. Berlin: EB-Verlag. ISBN 978-3-86893-067-2
  Bosanquet, Antonia
  
• 2012. Philanthropie in Saudi-Arabien: Bestandsaufnahme und Untersuchung der organisierten wohltätigen Praxis in Djidda, Saudi-Arabien. Vol. 9 of Maecenata Schriftenreihe. Dissertation. Stuttgart: Lucius & Lucius
  Derbal, Nora
  
• 2012. Zwei arabische Dialoge zur Alchemie: Die Unterredung des Aristoteles mit dem Inder Yūhīn und das Lehrgespräch der Alchemisten Qaydarūs und Mītāwus mit dem König Marqūnus. Vol. 310 of Islamkundliche Untersuchungen. Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz
  Müller, Juliane
  
• 2013. The Ambiguous Nation: Case Studies from Southeastern Europe in the 20th Century. München: Oldenbourg
  Grandits, Hannes, and Ulf Brunnbauer, eds.
  
• 2013. The dowry of the state?: The Politics of Abandoned Property and the Population Exchange in Turkey, 1921-1945. Vol. 9 of Bamberger Orientstudien. Dissertation. Bamberg: University of Bamberg Press. ISBN 978-3-86309-463-8
  Morack, Ellinor
  
• 2013. Theologie in der jemenitischen Zaydiyya: Die naturphilosophischen Überlegungen des al-Ḥasan ar-Raṣṣāṣ. Vol. 86 of Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Dissertation. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-25127-4
  Thiele, Jan
  
• 2013. Youth and Globalization in Central Asia: Everyday Life between Religion, Media, and International Donors. Frankfurt am Main, New York: Campus
  Kirmse, Stefan
  
• 2013. “Appropriation of Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya: Challenging Expectations of Ingenuity.” In Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law: Debating Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya. Vol. 27 of Studien zur Geschichte und Kultur des islamischen Orients, eds. Birgit Krawietz and Georges Tamer. Berlin: De Gruyter, 1–36. ISBN 9783110285406
  Kokoschka, Alina, and Birgit Krawietz
  
• 2013. “Barelwi movement.” In Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, eds. Gerhard Bowering, Patricia Crone, Wadad Kadi, Devin Stewart and M. Q. Zaman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 64–65
  Reetz, Dietrich
  
• 2013. “Perspectives, Aspirations and Constraints: How To Do Politics in Off-Centre Afghanistan.” In Local Politics in Afghanistan: A Century of Intervention in Social Order, ed. Conrad Schetter. New York: Columia University Press, 163–75
  Baldauf, Ingeborg
  
• 2014. Al-Ḥīra: Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im spätantiken Kontext. Vol. 104 of Islamic history and civilization. Leiden, Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04- 22926-6
  Toral-Niehoff, Isabel
  
• 2014. Geschichte als Widerstand: Geschichtsschreibung und nation-building in Qaḏḏāfīs Libyen. Vol. 34 of Kultur, Recht und Politik in muslimischen Gesellschaften. Dissertation. ISBN 978-3-95650-158-6
  Krais, Jakob
  
• 2014. Urban Governance Under the Ottomans: Between Cosmopolitanism and Conflict. SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East. Abingdon: Routledge
  Freitag, Ulrike, and Nora Lafi, eds.
  
• 2014. Zwanzig Jahre Alltag: Lebens-, Welt- und Selbstbild im Journal des Ahmad Ibn Tawq. Vol. 8 of Mamluk Studies. Dissertation. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. ISBN 978-3-8471-0294-6
  Wollina, Torsten
  
• 2014. “Can ‘Om’ be an Islamic Term?: Translations, Encounters, and Islamic Discourse in Vernacular South Asia.” South Asian History and Culture 5 (2): 195– 211
  Tschacher, Torsten
  
• 2014. “Falconry as a Cultural Icon of the Arab Gulf Region.” In Under Construction: Logics of Urbanism in the Gulf Region. 1st ed., eds. Steffen Wippel, Katrin Bromber, Christian Steiner and Birgit Krawietz. Farnham: Ashgate, 131–46. ISBN 9781472412881
  Krawietz, Birgit
  
• 2014. “Frames of Time: Periodization and Universals in the Works of Abdallah Laroui.” Der Islam 91 (1): 115–34
  Riecken, Nils
  
• 2014. “Pathways to Politcal Power in Sudan.” In Women In Politics: Gender, Power and Development, ed. Mariz Tadros. London: Zed Books, 167–201
  Abbas, Sara
  
• 2014. “Sociocultures of Southeast Asia: Between History, Area and Social Studies.” transcience 5 (1): 25–35
  Houben, Vincent
  
• 2014. “The Successful Life of Qurbon Amirqulov: Memories of Leadership in the Southern Periphery of Uzbekistan.” ASIEN 129: 115–36
  Baldauf, Ingeborg
  
• 2014. “To Whom Belong the Streets? Property, Propriety, and Appropriation: The Production of Public Space in Late Ottoman Damascus, 1875-1914.” Dissertation. Freie Universität Berlin
  Grallert, Till
  
• 2014. “Translocal Ethics: Hizmet Teachers and the Formation of Güleninspired Schools in Urban Tanzania.” Sociology of Islam 1 (3-4): 233–56
  Dohrn, Kristina
  
• 2015. Ahmad al-Tijânî de Fès: Un sanctuaire soufi aux connexions transnationales [fre]. Histoire et perspectives méditerranéennes. Dissertation. Paris: L'Harmattan. ISBN 978-2-343-07530-3
  Berriane, Johara
  
• 2015. Die Erben des Malcolm X: Afroamerikanische Muslime zwischen Widerstand und Anpassung. Globaler lokaler Islam. Dissertation. Bielefeld: transcript. ISBN 978-3-940132-96-3
  Simon, Katrin
  
• 2015. New Media Configurations and Socio-Cultural Dynamics in Asia and the Arab World. Baden-Baden: Nomos. ISBN 978- 3848712939
  Schneider, Nadja-Christina, and Carola Richter, eds.
  
• 2015. The Yemeni Manuscript Tradition. Vol. 7 of Islamic manuscripts and books. Leiden, Boston: Brill. ISBN 9004289763
  Schmidtke, Sabine, David Hollenberg, and Christoph Rauch, eds.
  
• 2015. “Boundaries and space in Gilgit-Baltistan.” Contemporary South Asia 23 (3): 276-291
  Kreutzmann, Hermann
  
• 2015. “From State Exclusionary Politics to Youth Inclusionary Practices: The Tahrir Square Experience.” International Journal of Sociology 45 (3): 176–89
  El-Sharnouby, Dina
  
• 2015. “History, Time, and Temporality in a Global Frame: Abdallah Laroui’s Historical Epistemology of History.” History & Theory 54 (4): 5–26
  Riecken, Nils
  
• 2015. “Human Development in Pakistan and Bureaucratic Predicaments.” International Journal of Public Administration 38 (3): 216–26
  Kalia, Sumrin
  
• 2015. “Koloniale Moderne in Nederlandsch-Indië: Grenzen und Gegenströme.” In Andere Modernen: Beiträge zu einer Historisierung des Moderne- Begriffs, ed. Wolfgang Kruse. Bielefeld: transcript, 209–18
  Houben, Vincent
  
• 2015. “Peacebuilding and Pasture Relations in Afghanistan.” Peacebuilding 3 (3): 238–60
  Schütte, Stefan
  
• 2015. “Religionen und internationale Politik.” In Handwörterbuch Internationale Politik. 13th ed., eds. Wichard Woyke and Johannes Varwick. Opladen, Toronto: Barbara Budich, 408–18
  Bongardt, Michael
  
• 2015. “The Social Production of Space and Emotions in South Asia.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 58 (5): 611–33
  Khan, Razak
  
• 2015. “Ṣanʿāʾ, Jerusalem, New York // Ṣanʿāʾ, Jerusalem, New York: Imām Yaḥyā Ḥamīd al-Dīn (1869-1948) and Yemeni-Jewish Migration from Palestine to the United States.” In The Yemeni Manuscript Tradition. Vol. 7 of Islamic manuscripts and books. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 252–80. ISBN 9004289763
  Hünefeld, Kerstin, and Menashe Anzi
  
• 2016. #Hashtag Solidarities: Twitter Debates and Networks in the Mena Region. Vol. 5 of SWP Research Paper. Berlin: Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik
  Transfeld, Mareike, and Isabelle Werenfels, eds.
  
• 2016. Der Vordere Orient und Nordafrika ab 1500 [Deutsch]. 1st ed. Vol. 9 of Neue Fischer Weltgeschichte. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-10-010829-6
  Krämer, Gudrun
  
• 2016. Guidance (Uwongozi) by Sheikh al-Amin Mazrui: Selections from the first Swahili Islamic newspaper. Vol. 13 of African sources for African history. A Swahili- English edition. Trans. Hassan Mwakimako and Kai Kresse. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004335509
  Kresse, Kai
  
• 2016. Managing Piety: The Shrine of Data Ganj Bakhsh. Dissertation. Karachi: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19940-298-4
  Strothmann, Linus
  
• 2016. Muslim Matter: Photographs, Objects, Essays. Berlin: Revolver Publishing. ISBN 978-3-95763-359-0
  Maneval, Stefan, and Omar Kasmani, eds.
  
• 2016. “Can poetry change the world? Reading Amal Dunqul in Egypt in 2011.” In Islam and popular culture, eds. Karin van Nieuwkerk, Mark LeVine and Martin Stokes. Austin: University of Texas Press, 122-148. ISBN 978-1-4773-0904-9
  Schielke, Samuli
  
• 2016. “Changing Perceptions along the Frontiers: The Moving Frontier with Rum in Late Medieval Anatolian Frontier Narratives.” In Living in the Ottoman Realm: Empire and Identity, 13th to 20th centuries, eds. Christine Isom-Verhaaren and Kent F. Schull. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 29–41. ISBN 9780253019486
  Aydogan, Zeynep
  
• 2016. “Die türkisch-osmanische Bibelübersetzung.” In Orientalische Bibelhandschriften aus der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin-PK: Eine illustrierte Geschichte, eds. Meliné Pehlivanian, Christoph Rauch and Ronny Vollandt. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 127–40. ISBN 9783954902095
  Gehlhar, Josephine
  
• 2016. “From Archive to Archival Practices: Rethinking the Preservation of Mamlūk Administrative Documents.” Journal of the American Oriental Society 136 (1): 1-28
  Hirschler, Konrad
  
• 2016. “From Muslims into Turks? Consensual Demographic Engineering Between Interwar Yugoslavia and Turkey.” Journal of Genocide Research 18 (4): 427–46
  Schad, Thomas
  
• 2016. “How a Collective Trauma Influences Ethno-Religious Relations of Adolescents in Present-Day Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.” Social Inclusion 4 (2): 133–43
  Šehagić, Merima
  
• 2016. “Life After Genocide: Bosnian Muslim Women Remembering Together.” In Remembering the Bosnian Genocide: Justice, Memory and Denial, ed. H. Karčić. Trans. Alison Sluiter. Sarajevo: Institute za islamsku tradiciju Bošnjaka
  Šehagić, Merima
  
• 2016. “Qasā‘id-khānī in Wakhān Valley of Badakhshan, Tajikistan.” In The music of Central Asia, eds. Theodore C. Levin, Saida Daukeyeva and Elmira Köčümkulova. Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 535–54. ISBN 9780253017642
  Goibnazarov, Chorshanbe
  
• 2016. “The Bohra Dark Archive and the language of secrecy: A codicological ethnography of the Royal ʿAlawī Bohra Library in Baroda.” Dissertation. Freie Universität Berlin
  Akkerman, Olly
  
• 2016. “The Manufacturing of Islamic Lifestyles in Tajikistan through the Prism of Dushanbe's Bazaars.” Central Asian Survey 35 (2): 157–77
  Stephan-Emmrich, Manja
  
• 2016. “The Mosque as the Religious Sphere: Looking at the Conflict over the Al Muttaqun Mosque.” In Islam, politics and change: The Indonesian experience after the fall of Suharto [eng]. Debates on Islam & society, eds. Kees van Dijk and Nico J.G. Kaptein. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 79–102. ISBN 9789400602328
  Zuhri, Zyaifudin
  
• 2017. Knowledge Production, Area Studies and Global Cooperation. London, New York: Routledge
  Derichs, Claudia
  
• 2017. Nahrungsmittel in der arabischen Medizin: Das Kitāb al-Aġdhiya wal-ašriba des Naǧīb ad-Dīn as-Samarqandī. Vol. 101 of Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Dissertation. Leiden, Boston: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-34509-6
  Müller, Juliane
  
• 2017. The Architecture of Everyday Life in Twentieth Century Jiddah. Dissertation. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin
  Maneval, Stefan
  
• 2017. The Jurist and the Theologian: Speculative theology in Shafi`i Legal theory. Dissertation. USA: Gorgias Press. ISBN 978-1-4632-0618-5
  Eissa, Mohamed
  
• 2017. Wakhan Quadrangle: Exploration and Espionage During and After the Great Game. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. ISBN 9783447108126
  Kreutzmann, Hermann
  
• 2017. Wissensvermittlung im Gespräch: Eine Studie zu klassischarabischen Dialogen. Vol. 149 of Islamic history and civilization. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004326705
  Forster, Regula
  
• 2017. “'They all just want to get healthy!': Drinking the Qur'an Between Forming Religious and Medical Subjectivities in Zanzibar.” Journal of Material Culture 22 (2): 453–75
  Nieber, Hanna
  
• 2017. “Before the Eternal: Muslim Law and the Eternity of Divine Speech.” Journal of Islamic Law and Society 24 (4): 336–54
  Eissa, Mohamed
  
• 2017. “Ethics, Epistemology and Ethnography: The Need for an Anthropological Debate on Ethical Review Processes in Germany.” Sociologus 67: 191-208
  Dilger, Hansjörg
  
• 2017. “Institutionelle Diskriminierung: Rechtliche Möglichkeiten in Deutschland und Großbritannien.” In Rassismuskritik und Widerstandsformen. Research, eds. Karim Fereidooni and Meral El. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. ISBN 9783658147204
  Lewicki, Aleksandra
  
• 2017. “Islamic Art in the Islamic World: Museums and Architectural Revivalism.” In A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture: From the Mongols to Modernism. Vol. 2 of Blackwell Companions to Art History. 2 vols., eds. Gülrü Necipoglu and Finbarr B. Flood, 1150–71
  Shaw, Wendy
  
• 2017. “Lowering the Gaze, Shaping Desires: A Perspective on Islamic Masculinity in Germany.” In Muslims in the UK and Europe. Vol. 3, eds. Paul Anderson and Julian Hargreaves. Cambridge: Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 36–48. ISBN 978-0-9573166-5-2
  Kurz, Miriam
  
• 2017. “Squatting and Urban Modernity in Turkey.” In Public Goods vs. Economic Interests: Historical Perspectives on Squatting, eds. Freia Anders and Alexander Sedlmaier. New York: Routledge, 99–121
  Morack, Ellinor
  
• 2017. “The Practice of Zakat in Northern Nigeria and the Building of Social Relationships.” In Charity in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions, eds. Julia R. Lieberman and Michal J. Rozbicki. London: Lexington Books, 195-210. ISBN 978-1-4985- 6085-6
  Abubakar, Dauda
  
• 2018. Being and Becoming: Imagination, Memory, and Violence in the Southern Philippines. Dissertation. Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin
  Castillo, Rosa C. A.
  
• 2018. Der inspizierte Muslim: Zur Politisierung der Islamforschung in Europa. Globaler lokaler Islam. Bielefeld: transcript. ISBN 9783732836758
  Amir-Moazami, Schirin, ed.
  
• 2018. Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya and the Divine Attributes: Rationalized Traditionalistic Theology. Vol. 104 of Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004372511
  Ovadia, Miriam
  
• 2018. Im Zentrum der Peripherie: Über Muslimisches Leben in Südostasien. Berlin: Promosaik. ISBN 978-3-7467-6839-7
  Seise, Claudia
  
• 2018. Into the Wild: Art and Architecture in a Global Context. Munich: Edition Metzel. ISBN 9783889601698
  Bassing, Antonie, Laura Hindelang, Charlotte Matter, and Filine Wagner, eds.
  
• 2018. Neue Wege der Begriffsgeschichte. Vol. 44 of Geschichte und Gesellschaft
  Pernau, Margrit, ed.
  
• 2018. Swahili Muslim publics and postcolonial experience. African expressive cultures. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253037557
  Kresse, Kai
  
• 2018. Ways of Knowing Muslim Cultures and Societies: Studies in Honour of Gudrun Krämer. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-37754-7
  Gräf, Bettina, Birgit Krawietz, and Schirin Amir-Moazami, eds.
  
• 2018. “A Recent Revival of Shii Studies in Germany: Three Panels on the Field.” Shii Studies Review 2 (1- 2): 372–80
  Akkerman, Olly, Christian Funke, Verena Klemm, and Robert Langer
  
• 2018. “Crossmedia Flows of Documentary Images and the Transnational Communicative Figuration Surrounding Gestational Surrogacy in India.” BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies 9 (2): 184–207
  Schneider, Nadja-Christina
  
• 2018. “Islam in the Echo Chamber: Homogenisation and Polarisation in Indonesia and Malaysia.” Asiascape: Digital Asia 5 (1-2): 124–58
  Schäfer, Saskia
  
• 2018. “More than Subversion: Four Strategies for the Dominated.” Qualitative Sociology 41 (4): 593–616
  Büyükokutan, Barış, and Hale Şaşmaz
  
• 2018. “On Coming to Grips with Turkish Oil Wrestling: Conceptualising Muscular Islam and Islamic Martial Arts.” In Ways of Knowing Muslim Cultures and Societies: Studies in Honour of Gudrun Krämer, eds. Bettina Gräf, Birgit Krawietz and Schirin Amir-Moazami. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-37754-7
  Krawietz, Birgit
  
• 2018. “Opposition Dynamism Under Authoritarianism: The Case of Yemen, 1994-2011.” Democratization 25 (4): 597–613
  Heibach, Jens, and Mareike Transfeld
  
• 2018. “Tracing Ibn Ṭūlūn’s Autograph Corpus, with Emphasis on the 19th–20th Centuries.” Journal of Islamic Manuscripts 9 (2-3): 308–40
  Wollina, Torsten
  
• 2018. “Unpacking the Effects of Repression: The Evolution of Islamist Repertoires of Contention in Egypt after the Fall of President Morsi.” Social Movements Studies 17 (1): 1–18
  Grimm, Jannis, and Cilja Harders
  
• 2019. A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
  Hirschler, Konrad
  
• 2019. Esprit civique et organisation citadine dans l'empire ottoman (XVe-XXe siècles). The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage. Leiden: Brill
  Lafi, Nora
  
• 2019. Mobilität und Zeugenschaft: Unabhängige Dokumentarfilmpraktiken und der Kaschmirkonflikt. Film. Dissertation. Bielefeld: transcript. ISBN 978-3-8376-4177-6
  Kramer, Max
  
• 2019. The Arabic Book Revolution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press
  Gründler, Beatrice
  
• 2019. The Lawful Empire: Legal Change and Cultural Diversity in Late Tsarist Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
  Kirmse, Stefan
  
• 2019. Waren Welt Islam: Konsumkultur und Warenästhetik in Syrien 2000−2011. Dissertation. Berlin: Kadmos. ISBN 978-3-86599-383-0
  Kokoschka, Alina
  
• 2019. “Democratic Decline in Indonesia: The Role of Religious Authorities.” Pacific Affairs 92 (2): 235–55
  Schäfer, Saskia
  
• 2019. “Devotional Annotations: Preserving the Family’s Memory in Arabic Manuscripts.” Religions 10 (6): 376
  Wollina, Torsten
  
• 2019. “Egypt Is Not For Sale!: Harnessing nationalism for alliance building in Egypt’s Tiran and Sanafir island protests.” In Allying beyond Social Divides: Coalitions and Contentious Politics in the Middle East and North Africa. Vol. 24, eds. Yasmine Berriane and Marie Duboc, 443–66
  Grimm, Jannis
  
• 2019. “Midān Moments.” In Affective Societies - Key Concepts, eds. Jan Slaby and Christian von Scheve. London, New York: Routledge, 279–88
  Harders, Cilja, and Bilgin Ayata
  
• 2020. A History of Jeddah: The Gate to Mecca in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Cambridge University Press
  Freitag, Ulrike
  
• 2020. Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes. Durham: Duke University Press. ISBN: 978-1-4780-0549-0 ; 978-1-4780-0626-8
  Dilger, Hansjörg, Astrid Bochow, Marian Burchardt, and Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon, eds.
  
• Picturing the Islamicate World: The Story of al-Iṣṭakhrī's Book of Routes and Realms. Dissertation. Leiden: Brill
  Danilenko, Nadja