Department of History and Cultural Studies
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Team
Professors
Prof. Dr. Beatrice Gründler
Chair of Arabic language and literature
Study advisor bachelor's programme
Prof. Dr. Islam Dayeh
Assistant Professor
Qur’anic and Hadith studies, Arabic-Islamic Intellectual History, History of scholarship, Modern Arab Thought
islam.dayeh[at]fu-berlin.de
Honorary Professors
Private Lecturers
PD Dr. Isabel Toral-Niehoff
Senior PostDoc Researcher, Deputy Head of the ERC project "Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic"
Lecturers
Dr. Montserrat Rabadán Carrascosa
Lecturer for Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic and Media Arabic
Research Associates
Victoria Mummelthei, M.A.
Research Associate
Deputy study advisor master's programme; responsible for the scholarly communication of Arabic Studies as well as the ERC project "Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic" (websites, social media, print products)
Research Assistants (External Funds)
Dr. Ruth Abou Rached
PostDoc "Country of Words – PalREAD" (ERC)
Theodore Beers
PostDoc "Kalīla and Dimna ‒ AnonymClassic" (ERC)
Indirect Transmission, esp. the interplay between Arabic and Persian Traditions
Rossella De Luca, M.A.
Research Assistant External Funds
Junior Research Group "Arabic Philology and Textual Practices in the Early Modern Period"
Khouloud Khalfallah
Research Assistant "Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic" (ERC)
"Kalīila and Dimna – AnonymClassic" (ERC)
Mahmoud Kozae
Research assistant “Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic” (ERC)
Digital methods in literary research
Colinda Lindermann, M.A.
Research Assistant External Funds
Junior Research Group "Arabic Philology and Textual Practices in the Early Modern Period"
Dr. Jan van Ginkel
Senior PostDoc "Kalīla and Dimna ‒ AnonymClassic" (ERC)
Syriac text versions and tradition
Secretary
Others
Student Assistants
Student Assistants (External Funds)
Rima Redwan
Student research assistant “Kalīla and Dimna – AnonymClassic” (ERC)
Arabic manuscript transcripts and research
