Laufende Forschungsprojekte

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, ongoing since 2016, Einstein Stiftung Berlin and Leibniz Prize, DFG

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

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

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

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

The Poetry of Arab Women in the Modern Era: a prosodical inquiry into the reasons WHY?, 2023-2025, Minerva Stiftung

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"

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

Abgeschlossene Projekte

Arabic Pharmaceutical Manuscripts — A Neglected Field of Study, 2020-2022, Einstein Stiftung Berlin

Chemistry and Its Consequences in Byzantium and the Islamic World, 2023-2024

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

Creativity and Controversy in the Early Modern Islamic World: The Intellectual World of Burhan al-Din al Biqa'i, 1406-1480 (Kluge Fellowship at Library of Congress)

Displaced Texts: Arabic Literature in the Anglophone Literary Marketplace, 2021-2024, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

Junior Research Group "Arabic Philology and Textual Practices in the Early Modern Period"

Kalila and Dimna – Wisdom Encoded, 2015-2017

"Literary Migrations: Arabic and Persian Poetry around the Arabian Sea, 1600-1700", 2019-2021, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

Luther’s Qur’ān. Pro/claiming the Christian Reformation in Early Twentieth-Century Cairo

Matter Redeemed: Ancient Physics and Alchemy in Byzantium and the Islamic World, 2020-2021, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

PalREAD – Country of Words: Reading and Reception of Palestinian Literature from 1948 to the Present, 2018-2024, ERC Starting Grant

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

What is the Arabic for ‘Trauma'?, 2020-2023, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung

Zukunftsphilologie! Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship

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