Staff

Professors

Islam Dayeh

Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies

Interests: Islamic intellectual history, history of knowledge, modern Arabic and Islamic thought, critical philology.

Liza Franke

Professor of Islamic Studies

Interests: Cultures and societies of the modern and contemporary Middle East, social and intellectual history of Islam, socio-religious dynamics, history of Palestine, martyrdom and eschatology, Arabic literature, gender and identity.

Fokelien Kootstra

Visiting professor in Arabic epigraphy and Arabic historical linguistics

Interests: Pre-Islamic Arabia, Early Arabic, Arabic papyri, development of writing traditions, historical sociolinguistics

Aymon Kreil

Professor of Middle Eastern Anthropology

Interests: Cultures and societies of the contemporary Middle East, gender, love and sexuality, art and calligraphy

Christopher Markiewicz

Professor of Ottoman and Islamic Studies

Interests: Islamic history (13th-17th century), Ottoman Empire, Islamic political culture, comparative empires, new diplomatic history

Sara Mondini

Professor of Art and Architecture of West and South Asia

Interests: Islamic, Indo-Islamic and South Asian art and architecture (12th-19th century), modern and contemporary art from the MENASA region, the Indian Ocean network, the dynamics of patronage, exchanges and identity-building processes.

Jo Van Steenbergen

Professor of Islamic History

Interests: Islamic history, Islamic political culture, comparative empire, state formation, Arabic historiography

Researchers

Kotoz Ahmed

Postdoctoral researcher in the ERC Project KNOW: Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures

Interests: Social and intellectual history, Arabic (Pre)Modernity with a focus on Egypt, Arab-European transculturality, digital humanities

Colinda Lindermann

Postdoctoral researcher in the ERC Project KNOW: Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures

Interests: Arabic philology in the post-formative period, history of knowledge, adab , pre-Islamic poetry

Mohamed Maslouh

PhD-researcher

Interests: Mamluk history, sufism, Cairo Sultanate

Ophelie Mercier

PhD-researcher

Interests: Anthropology of art, migration, intersectionality, Egypt, Palestine

Semih Özmeriç

PhD-researcher

Interests: The comparative history of Europe and the Ottoman Empire, the intellectual history of the early modern world, the history of emotions and mentalities.

Roman Schärer

PhD-researcher

Interests: Islamic philanthropy, Islamic history, historiography, theology

Maya Termonia

Research Associate

Interests: Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL), decolonization of Arabic language teaching, Arabic grammar, Egyptian Arabic, Egypt, Sultanate of Cairo, Arabic literature

Language lecturers

George Khouri

Language lecturer

Interests: Language acquisition, Media Arabic

Maya Termonia

OB, Language Lecturer

Interests: Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL), decolonization of Arabic language teaching, Arabic grammar, Egyptian Arabic, Egypt, Sultanate of Cairo, Arabic literature

Stijn Van Nieuwenhuyse

Language lecturer

Interests: Language acquisition, Media Arabic, Arabian Nights, Kalila wa Dimna

Affiliated and Former Researchers

Administration