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Photograph: Ekko von Schwichow, Berlin
Photograph: Ekko von Schwichow, Berlin
I studied History of Religions and Philology at Amsterdam University (UvA), focusing on Ancient History and Cuneiform. This resulted in a dissertation that traced historical pathways leading to the making of the Old Testament (The Topography of Remembrance. The Dead, Tradition, and Collective Memory in Mesopotamia. Leiden: Brill 1995).
My research interests target collective memory patterns vs. long durée perceptions, with a focus on religious minorities in Europe. I published on the institutionalization of Islam in Europe, European perceptions of Jews and Muslims, Ahmadiyya mission, mosque archives, and a remarkable Jewish-Muslim encounter in interwar Berlin. Ahmadiyya mission was placed in the wider field of German-Indian religious entanglements. Research into the Russian-Muslim POW Camp of Weinberge (1914-1918) cleared the beginnings of Muslim engagement in Germany.
I am affiliated with the Erlangen Research Center for Islam and Law in Europe (EZIRE) at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen.
The Department of Global Religions at the University of Erfurt has kindly offered me a research collaboration on the topic "The Making of Annemarie Schimmel, 1939–1959." With this study, I hope to expand our knowledge of German-Muslim entanglements by examining the Oriental Institute in wartime Berlin and its diverse war-related knowledge productions:
https://www.uni-erfurt.de/philosophische-fakultaet/seminare-professuren/religionswissenschaft/forschung/glocal-religiosities/betreuerinnen
My research interests target collective memory patterns vs. long durée perceptions, with a focus on religious minorities in Europe. I published on the institutionalization of Islam in Europe, European perceptions of Jews and Muslims, Ahmadiyya mission, mosque archives, and a remarkable Jewish-Muslim encounter in interwar Berlin. Ahmadiyya mission was placed in the wider field of German-Indian religious entanglements. Research into the Russian-Muslim POW Camp of Weinberge (1914-1918) cleared the beginnings of Muslim engagement in Germany.
I am affiliated with the Erlangen Research Center for Islam and Law in Europe (EZIRE) at Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen.
The Department of Global Religions at the University of Erfurt has kindly offered me a research collaboration on the topic "The Making of Annemarie Schimmel, 1939–1959." With this study, I hope to expand our knowledge of German-Muslim entanglements by examining the Oriental Institute in wartime Berlin and its diverse war-related knowledge productions:
https://www.uni-erfurt.de/philosophische-fakultaet/seminare-professuren/religionswissenschaft/forschung/glocal-religiosities/betreuerinnen
