AKMI Fellows 1997–2006
AKMI Fellows 1997–2006
Die Fellowships des Arbeitskreises Moderne und Islam (AKMI) wurden aus Mitteln des Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) finanziert.
2005/2006
Shereen Abou El Naga
(Cairo University)
Women Reading / Crossing Borders
Hany Hanafy
(Tanta University)
Re-inscribing the Boundaries of the Novelistic and History in Radwa Ashour’s Part of Europe
Ilham Khuri-Makdisi
(Northeast University)
Subversive Acts: the Theatre and Social Contestation in Syria and Egypt, 1850–1914
Nora Lafi
(Zentrum Moderner Orient)
Old Regime Urban Government in Merchant Cities of the Ottoman Empire (Middle-East and Maghreb)
Abdellah Larhmaid
(University of Mohammed V)
Jewish Minority, Muslim Majority: Formation of Nationalist Ideas in Modern Morocco
Dana Sajdi
(Amman)
The Barber of Damascus: Episodes in Early Modern Culture
2004/2005
Shereen Abou El Naga
(Cairo University)
Woman Reading / Crossing Borders
Abed Azzam
(Tel-Aviv University)
The Hermeneutics of the Antichrist in Nietzsche’s History of Christianity
Hülya Canbakal
(Sabanci University)
Social Conflict in 18th century `Ayntab
Constantin Iordachi
(Central European University, Budapest)
Inter-Communitarian Relations at the Lower Danube: The Case of the Dobrudjan Merchant Cities of Tulcea, Sluina and Constanta (1839–1940)
Assaad Elias Kattan
(University of Balamand)
Thinking Modernity. A Study of Reception of Modern Hermeneutics in Islamic Lebanese Circles (1992–2004)
Kader Konuk
(University of Michigan)
Jewish-German Philologists in Turkish Exile
Nora Lafi
(Université de Paris / Université de Provence, Arles)
Old Regime Urban Government in Merchant Cities of the Ottoman Empire (Middle-East and Maghreb)
Abdellah Larhmaid
(University of Mohammed V)
Jewish Minority, Muslim Majority: Formation of Nationalist Ideas in Modern Morocco
Ulrika Martensson
(Trondheim University)
Notions of Reform in Medieval Islamic Hermeneutics, the ‘new’ Orientalist Discourse, Max Weber’s ‘Interpretative Sociology’ and Cultural ‘Ideal Types’
Asli Niyazioglu
(Oxford University)
Between Two Worlds: Writing Life Stories in the Late 19th Century
Azam Puyazadeh
(Tehran University)
The Development of Tafsir from Other Worldly Orientation to Worldly Orientation
Samah Selim
(Marseille)
‘The Peoples Entertainment’: The Popular Novel in Egypt, 1904–1911
Malek Sharif
(Freie Universität Berlin)
A Social History of the Medical Profession in 19th Century Beirut
Yücel Terzibasoglu
(Bogazici University)
Urban Property and Administration in Dispute: Ayvalik, 1877–1926
2003/2004
Abdul-Rahim Al-Shaikh
(Bir Zayt University)
Poetics of Identity and the ‘Other’: The Mahmoud Darwish Reader
Saeid Edalat Nezhad
(International Centre for Dialogue among Civilizations, Tehran)
On the Interaction of Natural Science and Qur’anic Exegesis
Biray Kirli
(Bogazici University)
Istanbul: A World No More: Christians, Muslims and Jews in Nineteenth-Century Izmir
Mohammad Mojahedi
(Research Institute for Curriculum and Innovation, Tehran)
A Comparative Interdisciplinary Study on Hermeneutical Criteria of Distinguishing between “Core” and “Margin” in Mystical-Experience-Oriented Interpretation of the Holy Qur’an
Asli Niyazioglu
(Harvard University)
Between Two Worlds: Writing Life Stories in the Late Nineteenth Century Ottoman Society
Florian Riedler
(University of London)
Temporary Workers and Small Traders in and around Khans and Bachelor Houses in Ottoman Port Cities in the 19th Century
Canay Sahin
(Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul)
Tax-Farmers, Notables and Merchants in the Black Sea Region at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Sunil Sharma
(Harvard University)
Defining the Literary Domains of Persianate Cultural Traditions
Meltem Toksöz
(Bogazici University)
‘Furnishing Merchants’ of Port-Cities
Daniel Tsadik
(The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Shi’ite Tafsir of the Jewish Scriptures
Sevket Yavuz
(Canakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi)
The Project for a New Islamic Episteme and the Reconstruction of New Hermeneutics in Islam. The Reconstruction of the “Other” in Muslim Existence in Light of the Textual and Archetypal Paradigms
2002/2003
Randa Abou-Bakr
(Cairo University)
Re-Examining Cultural Theory: Egyptian Colloquial Poetry as Subversive Discourse
Hülya Adak
(Sabanci University)
Self and Subjectivity in Live Story Narratives of the Middle East
Maher Jarrar
(American University of Beirut)
Space and the Poetics of Prose in Modern Arabic Narrative
Morteza Kariminiya
(University of Tehran / Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation)
The Role of Shaikh Tusi in the Development of Early Shi’ite Exegesis
Georges Tamer
(Universität Erlangen)
The Concept of Time ind Qur’an and ist Hermeneutics
Yehia Zekri
(Cairo University)
Arab-Jewish Literature
2000/2001
Jillali el-Adnani
(Marokko / Arles)
Conflicts and Hierarchy: Or How the Neat and Polished Up Saint’s Image was Frozen
Abdallah Chanfi Ahmed
(Zentrum Moderner Orient)
Da’wa et Ngoma: Quelques aspects de l’Islam traditionnel contestés par les nouveaux ulémas aux Comores et en pays swahili (Afrique orientale). Une approche anthropologique
Samer Mahdi Ali
(Indiana University)
Generosity like God’s: Praise Ceremony and the Cultural Foundation of an Old Virtue
David Atwill
Along the Multiple Periphery: Islamic Language, Ethnicity, and Symbols in the Borderworld of SW China
Vladimir Bobrovnikov
(School for Oriental Studies, Moscow)
Crime, Custom and Ethnography among the North Caucasian Muslims
Christèle Dedebant
(EHESS Paris)
Islamicate in Pakistan
Syrinx Hees
(Bonn)
“Islamic Art” in Modern Discourse. How is an “Islamic Code” Used in the Discourse on Art?
Farish Noor
(University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur)
Returning to the Future. The Rediscovery and Reinvention of the Islamic Civilizational Project in Malaysia as a Response to the Crisis of Globalisation and Secular Modernity
Cyris Schayegh
(New York University)
Engineering Homo Faber? Health Science and Work in the Formation of the Iranian Modern Middle-Class, 1910s–1940s. A Socio-Cultural History
1999/2000
Jamila Bargach
(Marokko)
Genealogies and Debates on Kafala, Adoption, and Abandoned Children
Robert Crews
(Princeton University)
The House of Islam in a Christian Empire: Religion, Law, and the State in Imperial Russia
Jan Goldberg
(St. Anthony’s College, Oxford)
Majalis al-Tujjar (1845–76) and Actor sequitur forum rei: Al-Khawaga Ya’qub al-Haddad v. al-Khawaga Markar (1855–56)
Hakan Karateke
(Burhanye, Turkey)
Changes in the Bases of the Ottoman Sultan’s Legitimacy, as Reflected in the Siyaset-name Literature (16th–20th Century)
Farish A. Noor
(University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur)
Returning to the Future. The Rediscovery and Reinvention of the Islamic Civilizational Project in Malaysia as a Response to the Crisis of Globalisation and Secular Modernity
1998/1999
Khaled Adham
(Cairo University)
Architectural (B)Order and Social Order: Postmodernity and the Socio-Urban Condition of the Production of Space in Late 20th Century Cairo
Abdallah Chanfi Ahmed
(Zentrum Moderner Orient)
Les Pratiques de l’«Islam populaire» face à la propagande des jeunes ulémas-wahhabito-frères musulmans aux Comores et en Afrique de l’Est
Zourabi Aloiane
(Central European University, Budapest)
The Kurds and the Caucasus: Cultural and Religious Links in Early Modern and Modern Period
Rahal Boubrik
(Université de Provence)
Traditional Religious Men and Political Power in Mauritania
Christoph Herzog
(Universität Heidelberg)
Ottoman Modernisation and Sunnite Dissent in Baghdad: The Cases of Abu t-Tana’ and Mahmud Šukri al-Alusi
Nabila Oulebsir
(EHESS, CNRS)
L’invention de l’occident musulman. Le rôle de l’École historique française d’Alger (1900-1962)
1997/1998
Abdallah Chanfi Ahmed
(Komoren)
Islam et modernité
Zeynep Aygen
(Mimar-Sinan-University Istanbul)
Public Participation in the Cities of Islam
Pardis Minucher
(Columbia University New York)
The Homeland from Afar: Experiences of Iranians in Istanbul from June 1908–1909
Stephan Rosiny
(Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
“Islamic Economy”. Theory and Practice of Hezbollah in Lebanon