Muslim Worlds - World of Islam? (BMBF-sponsored) | In Search of Europe (BMBF-sponsored) | Joint Research Projects | Single Projects (DFG-sponsered)
sponsored by Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
The Centre's research programme currently comprises three interdisciplinary
projects, with twenty researchers working on different historical
and cultural aspects of the "Modern Orient" since the
18th century. They explore the translocal movements of people,
goods, symbols and ideas between the areas of the non-Western
world and to Europe.
Research programme (full text)
Concepts of World and Order
A Contest between worlds of Sport: competing patterns of order and forms of representation in body cultures in Africa and Asia
PD Dr. Katrin Bromber: Running at the Top: East African Competitive Sports
between National Hallmark, Local Bone of Contention
and Object of Supra-Regional Trade
Dr. Paolo Gaibazzi: The Making of Entrepreneurs in a West African Muslim Trade Diaspora
Dr. M. Ali Raza: Communist Internationalism and the South Asian Left ca. 1917-1979
PD Dr. Dietrich Reetz: Muslim “Globalities”: Another World?
Dr. Abdoulaye Sounaye: Islam, Youth Religiosities and Sermon Practices in Contemporary Niamey, Niger
PD Dr. Steffen Wippel: Tanger - Salalah: Globalising 'Regional Cities'
Dr. Jörg Matthias Determann: New Science in Arabia: Networks in the History of Biology in the Gulf
Dr. Dyala Hamzah: The world(s) of Islam as articulated by the production and reception of the panislamic journal 'al-Manâr' (1898-1935)
PD Dr. Christoph Herzog: Making sense of Turkish history: symbolic and interpretative uses of historiography in Turkey
Dr. Marloes Janson: Operating within the global umma: Gambian Tablighis religious beliefs and practices
Dr. Marloes Janson: The Emergence of Chrislam in Lagos (Nigeria):
Moving Toward "Islamic Pentecostalism"?
Prof. Dr. Roman Loimeier: What is “reform”? Muslim movements of reform in sub-Saharan Africa and the negotiation of modernity
Dr. Antía Mato Bouzas: Centre and peripheries: dynamics of interaction in South Asian borderlands
Karin Mlodoch: Violence, memory and dealing with the past in Iraq: the example of the survivors of the Anfal operations in Kurdistan
Dr. Lutz Rogler: Normativity, ethics, social philosophy: the paradigm of maqasid al-sharia as the foundation of "universal" legal morals
Dr. Dina Wilkowsky: Contesting public spheres: "discussion clubs" in Kazakhstan between politics, science and Islam
Microcosms and the Practices of the Local
Dr. Yasmine Berriane: The Youth Centre of Hay Mohammadi: the Making of a Participatory Sphere Institution in Morocco
Dr. des. Erdem Evren: Fluid Destinies of Çoruh: Techno-Capitalist Development and the Politics of Water in the Eastern Black Sea Region, Turkey
Dr. Jeanne Féaux de la Croix: Activists for a better future: a comparison of Muslim missions, late Soviet and contemporary development work in Kyrgyzstan
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag: Migration and the constitution of urbanity in Jeddah in the 19th century
Feras Krimsti: From the province to the centre: translocal perspectives and representations of Istanbul in the travelogues of the 17th and 18th centuries
PD Dr. Nora Lafi: Living together in the Ottoman city: rules, norms and conflict management patterns in Cairo, Aleppo and Tunis
Dr. Katharina Lange: The Production of Historical Knowledge and Politics of
Memory in Rural Northern Syria: Histories of the Welde
Prof. Marc Baer: Cosmopolitanism and the end of Empire: The Dnme of Salonica
Dr. Jeanne Féaux de la Croix: Competing forms of knowledge in Kyrgyzstan: inter-generational debates over the pastoral economy
Britta Frede: Shaykhâni (Manna Abba ibn Muhammad at-Tulba, 1908-1986) and the revival of the Tijaniyya in Mauritania
Dr. Malte Fuhrmann: Being European in the late Ottoman port cities
Dr. Sebastian R. Prange: Writing a homeland: the creation of Muslim identity on an Islamic frontier
Dr. Florian Riedler: The newcomers and the old-established: creating urban life in late Ottoman Istanbul
Dr. Nitin Sinha: Circulation on the Ganges, 1700-1900
Actors in Translocal Spaces
Dr. Chanfi Ahmed: From West Africa to Arabia. West African ulama in Mekka and Medina, 19th and 20th centuries
Dr. habil. Tilo Grätz: New Media Technologies and Media Entrepreneurs in West Africa
Dr. Wai Weng Hew: Translocal and Cosmopolitan Islam: Chinese-style Mosques in Indonesia and Malaysia
Dr. Heike Liebau: Reading Clubs in Colonial India – a Translocal Perspective
Bettina Gräf: Production and adaptation of fatwas in the era of electronic media with reference to the works of Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Dr. Knut Graw: Migration as postcolonial praxis: life histories and social theory from the African-European borderzone
Dr. Kai Kresse: Muslim discourses and reform: investigating the postcolonial experience in coastal Kenya
Dr. Heike Liebau: The First World War in Indian public spheres: from perception of war to the reconfiguration of identities, world views and world orders
Dr. Hassan Mwakimako: Changing times: Muslim religious debates in old and new cosmopolitan Mombasa and Nairobi
Dalila Nadi: The emergence of new translocal labor markets in Algeria
Dalila Nadi: Chinese migrants in Casablanca and Amman
Dr. Sophie Roche: Youth and
Identitiy in Text and Context: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Islamic
Fundamentalism among Young Tajik Men
Dr. Samuli Schielke: Imaginary cosmopolitans:
engaging the world in provincial Egypt
Dr. Benjamin Zachariah: Indian exiles in Berlin, 1914-1945
In Search of Europe: Considering the Possible in Africa and the Middle East / ISOE Exhibition
sponsored by German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
“In Search of Europe: Considering the Possible in Africa and the Middle East” is an interdisciplinary research project based at Zentrum Moderner Orientfrom 2010 until 2014. The research team consists of four regular and two associated researchers, who are combining anthropological and historical approaches. The project aims to gain an interdisciplinary, empirically grounded and theoretically reflective understanding of the ways people in Africa and the Middle East engage the idea of “Europe” as a metonymy of possibilities, both in its affirmative and in its critical forms. The images they present of Europe are far from unified.
Vanessa Díaz: Europe and the Image of one's own in the contemporary art of Mozambique
Dr. Knut Graw: Picturing Europe in Migration and Diaspora
Dr. Bettina Gräf: Public Debates in Transcultural Space: The Concept of Islam as Political Order at the Beginning of the Cold War
Dr. Aïssatou Mbodj: The Making of Ordinary Imaginations of Europe Between France and Mali: Migrants” Letters and Domestic Archives
Leyla von Mende: "Today's neighbour - yesterday's subject":
The Balkans between Ottoman
Empire and Europe from the perspective of Ottoman travellers, 1870-1918
Dr. Samuli Schielke: Engaging the World between Egypt and Europe - Reasons to Write after 2011
Daniela Swarowsky: Curator of exhibition project "In Search of Europe: Considering the Possible in Africa and the Middle East"
Joint Research Projects
Urban Violence in the Middle East
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"Urban Violence in the Middle East" is a joint Anglo-German research project based on a collaboration of ZMO and SOAS from 2010 until 2013. The project is funded by DFG and AHRC. The main objective of the research project is to investigate the emergence and different forms of public and popular violence in selected Ottoman, Arab and Iranian cities from the early 19th century to the 1960s in a wide geographical setting which stretches from Tunisia to Iran. |
Transforming Memories: Cultural Production and Personal/Public Memory in Lebanon and Morocco
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Staff:
- Dr. Sonja Hegasy
- Dr. habil. Saadi Nikro
- Makram Rabah
- Monika Borgman
- Laura Menin
- Christine Rollin (until August 2012)
In Cooperation with UMAM D&R, BeirutSponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
Crossroads Asia
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The Crossroads Asia competence network is an interdisciplinary research project conducted at several German universities and institutes and coordinated at Bonn University. Over a period of four years, 2011-2014, the project will study the interaction between emerging and evolving social 'figurations' (Norbert Elias) and mobility in and between the neighbouring regions of South and Central Asia. ZMO participation emphasises cross-regional aspects between Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Kashmir region and post-Soviet Central Asia.
funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |
Just Boedeker: The Baloch Borderlands: The Conflict of Tribe and State in a Globalized World
Dr. Antía Mato Bouzas: Plural Affinities in Contested Borderlands
In and Out of South and Central Asia: Transnational Community-Building in Religious and Ethnic Networks
Dr. Aksana Ismailbekova: Conflict Dynamics, Local Strategies and Trans-local Ties in the Fergana Valley
PD Dr. Dietrich Reetz: In and Out of South Asia: Transnational Community-Building in Religious and Ethnic Networks
Actors of Globalization
Muslime in Europa
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Head of the Project: PD Dr. Dietrich Reetz (ZMO). In cooperation with: the Universität Frankfurt/Oder (Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Prof. Dr. Werner Schiffauer), the Universität Hamburg (Religionspädagogik, Prof. Dr. Wolfram Weiße) and the Universität Halle (Südasienwissenschaften, Prof. Dr. Rahul Peter Das). |
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Subproject A7: Tourismus, Krieg und Erinnerung in Postkonfliktstädten. Beirut und Sarajevo im Vergleich
Project director: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag
Researcher: Anja Peleikis, Jens Adam
Subproject A5: Europa-Repräsentationen und transnationale Öffentlichkeiten im Vergleich: Europa, arabische Welt, Russland, 1850er-1910er Jahre und 1990er Jahre
Project director: Prof. Freitag, Prof. Baberowski, Prof. Kaelble
Researcher: Dr. Ahmed Badawi, Benjamin Beuerle, Johan Grußendorf, Andreas Weiß
Subproject A7: Arabische Identitätspolitik - Identitätspolitik in Neuordnungsprozessen in Marokko und Irak
Project director: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag
Researcher: Dr. Andrea Fischer-Tahir |
Europe in the Middle East - the Middle East in Europe
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A collaborative research programme of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung and the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. |
Invisible Borders in East-Central Europe
Projet de coopération franco-allemand:
La question du pouvoir dans les recompositions sociales et religieuses
contemporaines de l’Afrique du Nord et de l’Ouest
(PRANO)
with Dr. Elisabeth Boesen, Dr. Laurence Marfaing and Dr. Christine
Hardung
Single Projects
Completed Single Projects:
sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschafte (DFG):
Dr. Caterina Bori: Islamic pathways of reform: The reception of Ibn Taymiyya between the 16-18th centuries
sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschafte (DFG):
Dr. Rana von Mende Altaylı: The debate on polygamy in the late Ottoman modernisation discourse.
Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS):
Dr. Patrick Desplat: Culturalization of religious practices and the local relevance of conspiracy theories
Hatsuki Aishima: Karate as a Vehicle to Modernity? Islam, Art and Body Culture in Egypt
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