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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Florian Zemmin

Prof. Dr. Florian Zemmin

Institute of Islamic Studies

Executive Director of the Institute, Co-Director Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies (BGSMCS), Erasmus/Exchange contact person

Research interests: Religion and society in Islamic and Arab modernity and the present; Islamic reformism; Middle Eastern conceptual history; sociology in Arab countries; theories of modernity and secularity.

Address
Freie Universität Berlin
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Islamic Studies
Fabeckstr. 23/25
Room 1.1056
14195 Berlin
Email
florian.zemmin[at]fu-berlin.de

Office hours

Office hours (weekly during the teaching term, less regular in the teaching break):
Please schedule an appointment here:
https://calendly.com/-zemmin/sprechstunde

Please briefly indicate your topic and email any documents prior to the meeting. If needed, please select two consecutive 15-minute slots – thank you!

Academic career

Dr. phil. 2016                  

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bern

M.A. 2010

Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (Major), Science of Religion (Minor), University of Bern

B.A. 2007

Cultural Studies with a Focus on Religion (Major), Intercultural German Studies (Minor), University of Bayreuth

                                                                    

04/2020-09/2021                    

Senior Researcher at the Collaborative Research Group "Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities", University of Leipzig

10/2016-03/2020

Assistant for Islamic Studies at the Institute for Islamic Studies and Modern Oriental Philology, University of Bern

08/2019-03/2020      

Senior Research Fellow at the collaborative research group "Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities", University of Leipzig

08/2018-07/2019                  

Substitute Professor for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute for Islamic Studies and Modern Oriental Philology, University of Bern

02-07/2018                        

Senior Research Fellow at the collaborative research group "Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities", University of Leipzig

11/2015-09/2016                  

PhD student and assistant for Islamic Studies at the Institute for Islamic Studies and Modern Oriental Philology, University of Bern

11/2011-10/2015                  

PhD student and research assistant at the Institute for Islamic Studies and Modern Oriental Philology, 

University of Bern, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation

[01/2011-10/2011 parental leave]

09/2008-10/2010               

M.A. Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (Major) and Science of Religion (Minor), University of Bern, 

supported by a Master Grant from the University (CHF 1600/month)

10/2003-03/2007                

B.A. Cultural Studies with focus on Religion (Major) and Intercultural German Studies (Minor), 

University of Bayreuth; exchange semester at the University of Lausanne

Religion and society in Islamic and Arab modernity and the present; Islamic reformism; Middle Eastern conceptual history; sociology in Arab countries; theories of modernity and secularity.

Selection of publications without media contributions

(a complete overview can be found on Academia.edu)


Monographien:

  • Modernity in Islamic Tradition. The Concept of ‘Society’ in the Journal al-Manar (Cairo, 1898–1940). Religion and Society, Bd. 76, Hgg. Gustavo Benavides, Frank J. Korom, Karen Ruffle, Kocku von Stuckrad. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2018; Taschenbuchausgabe 2020.
  • Islamische Verantwortungsethik im 17. Jahrhundert. Ein weberianisches Verständnis der Handlungsvorstellungen Kātib Čelebis (1609–1657). Bonner Islamstudien, Bd. 26, Hg. Stephan Conermann. Berlin: ebv, 2011.

Herausgeberschaften:

  • Florian Zemmin, Johannes Stephan, Monica Corrado (Hgg.): Islam in der Moderne, Moderne im Islam. Eine Festschrift für Reinhard Schulze zum 65. Geburtstag. SEPS, Bd. 119, Hg. Dale F. Eickelman. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2018.
  • Florian Zemmin, Colin Jager, Guido Vanheeswijck (Hgg.): Working with A Secular Age. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Charles Taylor’s Master Narrative. Religion and Its Others, Bd. 3, Hgg. Stacey Gutkowski, Lois Lee, Johannes Quack. Boston/Berlin: De Gruyter, 2016; Taschenbuchausgabe 2017.

Zeitschriftsartikel

  • mit Henning Sievert: „Conceptual History of the Near East: The Saddle Period as a Heuristic Tool for Interrogating the Formation of a Multi-Layered Modernity.“ Contributions to the History of Concepts, Volume 16, Issue 2 (2021).
  • „The Janus Face of Kātib Çelebi: Reflecting on the Ottoman Saddle Period.“ Turcica 50 (2019), S. 327–354.
  • „Validating Secularity in Islam: The Illustrative Case of the Sociological Muslim Intellectual Rafiq al-Azm (1865–1925).“ HistoricalSocial Research 44 (2019), S. 74–100.
  • „Modernity without Society? Observations on the term mujtamaʿ in the Islamic Journal al-Manar (Cairo, 1898–1940).“ Die Welt des Islams 56/2 (2016), S. 223–247.
  • „Integrating Islamic Positions into European Public Discourse: The Paradigmatic Example of Tariq Ramadan.“ Journal of Religion in Europe 8/1 (2015), S. 121–146.
  • „Was hat Max Weber mit Kātib Čelebi zu tun? Ein Annäherungsversuch an Gottfried Hagen.“ Asiatische Studien 68/2 (2014), S. 549–556.
  •  „Vom gesellschaftlichen Engagement für den Islam zum islamischen Engagement für die Gesellschaft – Verschiebungen In Tariq Ramadans Plädoyer für eine ganzheitliche Moderne.“ Asiatische Studien 66/3 (2012), S. 749–810.

Handbucheinträge

  • „Varieties of Secularity,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of the Middle East, Hgg. Armando Salvatore, Sari Hanafi und Kieko Obuse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021; DOI:

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190087470.013.46.

  • „Soziologie in arabischen Gesellschaften,“ in Handbuch Theorien der Soziologie, Hgg. Heike Delitz, Julian Müller und Robert Seyfert. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, im Erscheinen.

Buchkapitel:

  • „Gruppensolidarität und Intoleranz: Rašīd Riḍās ambivalenter Gebrauch von taʿaṣṣub,“ in Konzepte von Intoleranz und Toleranz in der arabischen Moderne – Eine Anthologie, Hgg. Sarhan Dhouib und Anke von Kügelgen. Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag, im Erscheinen.
  • „Wider die islamische Exzeptionalität: Zur (Inter-)Disziplinarität der Islamwissenschaft am Beispiel des Salafismus“, in: Islam in der Moderne, Moderne im Islam [siehe: Herausgeberschaften], S. 159–186.
  • „Einleitung“ (zusammen Johannes Stephan und Monica Corrado), in: Islam in der Moderne, Moderne im Islam [siehe: Herausgeberschaften], S. 1–11.
  •  „A Secular Age and Islamic Modernism“, in: Working with A Secular Age [siehe: Herausgeberschaften], S. 307–329.
  •  „An Annotated Bibliography of Responses to A Secular Age“, in: Working with A Secular Age [siehe: Herausgeberschaften], S. 385–419.
  • „Introduction“ (zusammen mit Colin Jager und Guido Vanheeswijck), in: Working with A Secular Age [siehe: Herausgeberschaften], S. 1–19.

Weitere Artikel:

  • „How (Not) to Take ‘Secularity’ Beyond the Modern West: Reflections from Islamic Sociology.” Working Paper Series of the HCAS Multiple Secularities – Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities 9, https://multiple-secularities.de/media/wps_9_zemmin_secularitybeyondthewest.pdf

Rezensionen:

  • „[Review of:] Ahmet T. Kuru, Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment. A Global and Historical
  • Comparison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.” Die Welt des Islams 61/2 (2021), S. 254–257.
  • „[Review of:] Rediscovering the Islamic Classics: How Editors and Print Culture Transformed an Intellectual Tradition by Ahmed El Shamsy.” Technology and Culture 62/1 (2021), S. 314–316.
  • „[Review of:] Ammeke Kateman, Muḥammad ʿAbduh and His Interlocutors: Conceptualizing Religion in a Globalizing World. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2019.” Die Welt des Islams, 61/1 (2021), S. 127–130.
  • „[Review of] Wael Abu-Uksa: Freedom in the Arab World: Concepts and Ideologies in Arabic Thought in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.” Die Welt des Islams 58/1 (2018), S. 101–104.

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