Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Beatrice Gruendler

• Kalila and Dimna research project – Arabic Literature Cosmopolitan (2020-2027, Leibniz Prize DFG) and AnonymClassic (2018-2023, ERC)
• Berlin University Alliance (BUA) Objective 3: Advancing Research Quality and Value
• Aristotle's Poetics in the West (of India) from Antiquity to the Renaissance. A Multilingual Edition, with Studies of the Cultural Contexts, of the Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew, and Latin Translations (start 2016), Einstein Stiftung Berlin and Leibniz Prize, DFG
• Research Area 3 "Future Perfect" @EXC 2020 Temporal Communities
• Magical Realisms and Speculative Literature (start 2023), EXC 2020 Temporal Communities
• Project C10 "Verses and Sayings. Impetus and Range of Scholarly and Popularising Discourses in the Arabic World" (2021-2024) @ CRC 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period"
• Closing the Gap in Non-Latin Script Data II (2023-2026), Berlin University Alliance
• Closing the Gap in Non-Latin Script Data (2021-2023), Berlin University Alliance
• Kalila and Dimna – Wisdom Encoded (2015-2017)
  

Prof. Dr. Isabel Toral

• MEMORY SPACES: Mapping Oral History in Mosul (2023-2024), Gerda Henkel Stiftung
  

Prof. Dr. Refqa Abu-Remaileh

• PalREAD – Country of Words: Reading and Reception of Palestinian Literature from 1948 to the Present (2018-2023),  ERC Starting Grant
  
  

Prof. Dr. Islam Dayeh (2015-2024)

• Luther’s Qur’ān. Pro/claiming the Christian Reformation in Early Twentieth-Century Cairo
• Creativity and Controversy in the Early Modern Islamic World: The Intellectual World of Burhan al-Din al Biqa'i, 1406-1480 (Kluge Fellowship der Library of Congress)
• Junior Research Group "Arabic Philology and Textual Practices in the Early Modern Period"

• Zukunftsphilologie! Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship

• Code-switching in religious, philosophic and secular Judeo-Arabic Texts

• The Role of Arabic-Hebrew Translation in the Construction of the Arabic Other and Its Culture in the Eyes of the Jewish Reader throughout 1948-1993
  
  

Research projects of Fellows and Guest Researchers

• Dr. Maysoon Shibi, The Poetry of Arab Women in the Modern Era: a prosodical inquiry into the reasons WHY? (2023-2025), Minerva Stiftung
• Dr. Alexandre Roberts, Chemistry and Its Consequences in Byzantium and the Islamic World (2023 -2024)
• Dr. Sophia Brown, Displaced Texts: Arabic Literature in the Anglophone Literary Marketplace (2021-2024), Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
• Dr. Nora E. Parr, What is the Arabic for ‘Trauma'? (2020-2023), Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

• Dr. Ayman Y. Atat, Arabic Pharmaceutical Manuscripts — A Neglected Field of Study (2020-2022), Einstein Stiftung Berlin
• Dr. Alexandre Roberts, Matter Redeemed: Ancient Physics and Alchemy in Byzantium and the Islamic World (2020-2021), Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
• Dr. James White, Literary Migrations: Arabic and Persian Poetry around the Arabian Sea, 1600-1700 (2019-2021), Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung