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

Kalila and Dimna research project – AnonymClassic, ERC Advanced Grant, 2018-2023 and Arabic Literature Cosmopolitan, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize/DFG, 2020-2027

KALiMaT – Key Words for the Study of the Arabic Literary and Manuscript Tradition, DFG, 2024-2027

Berlin University Alliance (BUA) Objective 3: Advancing Research Quality and Value
Closing the Gap in Non-Latin Script Data II, Berlin University Alliance, 2023-2026
Closing the Gap in Non-Latin Script Data I, Berlin University Alliance, 2021-2023

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, Einstein Stiftung Berlin and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize/DFG, ongoing since 2016

Research Area 3 "Future Perfect" @EXC 2020 Temporal Communities
Magical Realisms and Speculative Literature, EXC 2020 Temporal Communities, start 2023

Project C10 "Verses and Sayings. Impetus and Range of Scholarly and Popularising Discourses in the Arabic World", CRC 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period", 2021-2024

Kalila and Dimna – Wisdom Encoded, 2015-2017

Prof. Dr. Isabel Toral

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

Prof. Dr. Refqa Abu-Remaileh

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

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

Fellows and Guest Researchers

Dr. Maysoon Shibi, The Poetry of Arab Women in the Modern Era: a prosodical inquiry into the reasons WHY?, Minerva Foundation, 2023-2025

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, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2021-2024

Dr. Nora E. Parr, What is the Arabic for ‘Trauma'?, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2020-2023

Dr. Ayman Y. Atat, Arabic Pharmaceutical Manuscripts — A Neglected Field of Study, Einstein Stiftung Berlin, 2020-2022

Dr. Alexandre Roberts, Matter Redeemed: Ancient Physics and Alchemy in Byzantium and the Islamic World, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2020-2021

Dr. James White, "Literary Migrations: Arabic and Persian Poetry around the Arabian Sea, 1600-1700", Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2019-2021