since June 2014

Research fellow, ZMO, Berlin
BMBF-research programme “Muslim Worlds – World of Islam? Conceptions, Practices, and Crises of the Global (Phase II, 2014-2019)
Project: “The self, time and the political: biographical approaches to a transregional history of knowledge”

October 2012 - May 2014

Research fellow, ZMO, Berlin
DFG Research Group 955 „Actors of Globalization, 1890-1930“
Project: „The journalist, author, and traveller Yūnus Ṣāliḥ Baḥrī al-Ğabūrī (1903-1979) between anti-imperialism, Arabism and National Socialism“

September 2011-September 2012

Academic assistant to the directorate, half-time position, ZMO, Berlin, September 2011-September 2012

2008 - 2011

PhD-programme, Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Free University Berlin
Defense in November 2013: magna cum laude
Department: Islamic Studies
Dissertation thesis: “Abdallah Laroui and the Location of History. An Intellectual Biography”, advisors Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag, Prof. Dr. Gudrum Krämer, Prof. Dr. Margrit Pernau

2001 - 2008

M.A. (Magister Artium), Leipzig University and Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 2001-2008
Medieval and Modern History, Islamic Studies and Political Science
Thesis: “Discourses about Collective Identities in Germany from 1859 until 1875. On the Relation of Nation and Religion in the ‚Historisch-politische Blätter für das katholische Deutschland’ and the ‚Preußische Jahrbücher’”

1999 - 2001

B.A. (Zwischenprüfung), Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Intermediate examination in Modern and Early Modern History, Islamic Studies and Political Science

1998 - 1999

Lutheran Theological College, Oberursel Ts.
Latinum, Hebraicum

1

Scholarship from the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Free University Berlin, 2008-2011, funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments and by Free University Berlin

2

Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a six-month language course in Cairo, Egypt, winter term 2002-2003

3

Wafedin-scholarship from the Egyptian government, summer term 2003

4

Merit-based governmental scholarship from the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation, 2001-2006

July - September 2015

Visiting scholar, Berkeley

April 2014

Archival research in London

March 2014

Archival research in Jakarta, Indonesia

January - February 2014

Archival research in Washington, D.C. and College Park, Maryland

2009, 2010, 2011

Research trips to Morocco

January - February 2010

Research trip to Egypt

winter term 2014/2015

Three sessions (“Biography as a method”, “Perspectives on Intellectual History”, “Global History from a Non-European Perspective”) of the Research Colloquium for MA-students by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag, Free University Berlin, Institute for Islamic Studies

winter term 2013/2014

Three sessions (“Biography as a method”, “Perspectives on Intellectual History”, “Global History from a Non-European Perspective”) of the Research Colloquium for MA-students by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag, Free University Berlin, Institute for Islamic Studies

1.

Articles

2015

"History, Time, and Temporality in a Global Frame: Abdallah Laroui’s Historical Epistemology of History." In: History & Theory 54, No. 4 (December 2015), special issue “Historical Theory in a Global Frame”, 5-26.

2014

"Frames of Time: Periodization and Universals in the Works of Abdallah Laroui." In: Der Islam 91, No. 1 (May 2014)

2012

"Periodization and the Political: Abdallah Laroui's Analysis of Temporalities in a Postcolonial Context." In: ZMO Working Papers 6 (2012)

2.

Book chapters

Forthcoming

Interdisciplinarity, Disciplines and Temporalities – Continuity or Discontinuity? In: Interdisciplinarity in World History, Edited by Ahmed Ibrahim Abu Shouk (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing)

3.

Reviews

2009

Review of: H. Bock, J. Feuchter, M. Knecht (eds.): Religion and Its Other. Secular and Sacral Concepts in Interaction. Frankfurt am Main 2008, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 06.11.2009.

2003

Review of:  C. Jordan, Kaderschmiede Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Aufbegehren, Säuberungen und Militarisierung 1945-1989, Berlin 2001. H.-P. Schmiedebach, K.-H. Spieß (Hg.), Studentisches Aufbegehren in der DDR. Der Widerstand gegen die Umwandlung der Greifswalder Medizinischen Fakultät in eine militärisch-medizinische Ausbildungsstätte im Jahr 1955, Stuttgart 2001, in: Die Politische Meinung, 48 (2003), 408, pp. 65-66.

4.

Media publications

2015

„Die Umklammerung. Die islamistische Idee von der Einheit von Staat und Religion verstört säkulare Gesellschaften.“ In: Das Parlament, no 16-17, p. 5, Berlin, 13 April 2015.

„Raus aus dem Containerdenken. ‚Der‘ Islam, ‚der‘ Westen: Die Suche nach einem ‚wahren Kern‘ verschleiert komplexe Zusammenhänge.“ In: Der Tagesspiegel, no. 22, p. 18, Berlin, 28 January 2015.

„Berichterstattung über Charlie Hebdo: Islam, Gewalt und das Problem der Kontextualisierung.“ In: Al-Sharq. Berlin, 16 January 2015.

5.

Selected conference papers

2015

“Modernity as rupture: analyzing Abdallah Laroui's epistemology of history as a postcolonial intellectual practice”, International Conference “History and Historiography in the 20th century”, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, University of Peloponnese, International Network for the Theory of History, Historein, Athens, 18-20 June 2015

“Historicizing difference. Abdallah Laroui’s epistemology of history and the critique of culturalist knowledge production”, Workshop “Tolerance in Contemporary Muslim Thought and Practice”, King’s College London, 16-17 March 2015 (invited)

“Abdallah Laroui’s epistemology of history and the critique of culturalist knowledge production”, Workshop "(De-)Colonizing Knowledge: Figures, Narratives, and Practices", Free University Berlin, Research Area Global History, 16-17 February 2015

2014

“Interdisciplinarity, disciplines and temporalities – continuity or discontinuity?”, Conference “Interdisciplinarity in History: An Old Method in a New World Context”, Qatar University, Doha, 5-6 March 2014

 „Intellektuelle Praktiken aus globaler Perspektive. Methodische Überlegungen am Beispiel des Begriffs des Historizismus bei Abdallah Laroui“, Tagung „Area Histories Transregional“, organized by Prof. Birgit Schäbler, Lehrstuhl für Geschichte Westasiens, Universität Erfurt, Erfurt February 2 - March 1, 2014 (invited)

2013

„Zeit und Zeitlichkeit in Abdallah Larouis historischer Epistemologie“, Panel: Geschichtsschreibung zwischen Wissenschaft und Ideologie, 32. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Münster, 23-27 September 2013

“Experiences of violence, tağāwuz/dépassement and universalism. Abdallah Laroui and the dialectic of memory and critique”, Workshop “Trauma, Memory and History: A Comparative Reflection between Morocco and Lebanon”, Mohammed V University of Rabat, 18-24 April 2013 (invited)

2012

Paper presented: “Frames of time: universals and periodization”, Workshop Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiography. Special theme:  “What is in a Period? ‘Jāhiliyya’, ‘ʿAbbāsid’, and ‘Arab Spring’ in Arabic Historical Writing”, ISMC, Aga Khan University/SOAS, University of London, London, 28 September 2012

2011

“Abdallah Laroui’s concept of historicism, modernity and the times of history”, International Graduate Conference “Colonial Legacies, Postcolonial Contestations: Decolonizing the social sciences and the humanities”, Frankfurt Research Center for Postcolonial Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Panel 15: Postcolonial Thought and the Problem of Periodization, Frankfurt a.M., 16-18 June 2011

6.

Conference report

2015

Conference report: Provincializing the Social Sciences. International Workshop, 04.06.2015 – 06.06.2015 Berlin, in: H-Soz-Kult, 02.09.2015

10 May 2014

Panel discussion „Biographie - was ist das? Wissen, Lebensläufe und biographische Wenden“,  Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, Berlin

6 December 2012

Panel discussion “‚Forschen ohne Grenzen‘ oder wozu braucht das ZMO seine FSP-Vorgeschichte? Moderated by Dr. Katharina Lange“ at the conference „Geteilt/Vereint/Global: vom Forschen im geteilten Deutschland zum Forschen ohne Grenzen“, ZMO, Berlin

winter term 2015-2016

Co-organizer lecture series “Engaging with Contemporary Philosophy in the Middle East and Muslim South Asia Themes, Approaches, and New Perspectives”, , Freie Universität Berlin/Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies

winter term 2014-2015

Co-organizer ZMO-Colloquium “Who speaks? – The global history of intellectual practices: epistemological, political, and ethical challenges”, ZMO Berlin