Courant Research Centre "Education and Religion"

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Data

Date of birth: May 10, 1965

Place of birth: Madrid, Spain



Education

  • Second Ph.D. ("Habilitation"): Freie Universität Berlin, School of Historical and Cultural Studies, Department of Arabic Studies, 29. October 2008. Thesis: Stammesfürsten und Dichterkönige - die arabischen Christen und das Reich der Lakhmiden



  • Ph.D.: University of Tübingen. School of Cultural Studies, Department of Islamic Studies, January 1997. Thesis: Kitab Djiranis. Die arabische Übersetzung der ersten Kyranis. Herausgegeben, übersetzt und kommentiert (supervisor: Manfred Ullmann)



  • M.A.: University of Tübingen. School of Cultural Studies, Department of Islamic Studies, May 1991. Thesis: Das kulturelle Leben im Toledo der Taifas.




Employment/Fellowships

  • Since 1.8.2014 Senior research position (CRC EDRIS, Göttingen). Project: "Education, knowledge and adab in Classical Arab literature: The cases of the 'Iqd al-Farid and 'Uyun al-Akhbar"



  • 1.8.2012-31.7.2014 Research scholarship, M4Human - Marie Curie Senior Research Fellowship, supported by the Gerda-Henkel Foundation. Host Institution: Aga Khan University London, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations. Research project: The 'Iqd al-Farid. The Discourse of the Arab Pre-Islamic Past (jahiliyya) in Islamic Spain, associated with the Excellence-Cluster TOPOI in Berlin, Section CSG V, "Space and Collective Identities"



  • 1.10.2009-31.3.2012 Research Scholarship, supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (National Research Foundation). Research Project: Die Ayyam al-'Arab als tribal history der arabischen Spätantike, associated with the Excellence-Cluster TOPOI in Berlin, Section CSG V, "Space and Collective Identities"



  • 1.10 2010-31.03.2011 Visiting Professorship (Seminar für Arabistik/ Islamwissenschaft, University of Göttingen, replacing Prof. Sebastian Günther)



  • Free University of Berlin: Assistant Professor (2009)



  • Free University of Berlin: Lehrbeauftragte (Teaching fellowship) 2007-2009



  • 1.7.2004-30.6.2007 Research scholarship, supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (National Research Foundation)
    Research Project: Untersuchung der Geschichte des arabischen Fürstentums der Lakhmiden in al-Hira (Irak) in der Grenzregion zwischen dem Sasanidenreich und Rom (3.-7. Jhd.)



  • Universtiy of Freiburg:Lehrbeauftragte (Teaching fellowship) 2003-2004



  • 1.7.1997- 31.12.2002. Research scholarship, supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (National Research Foundation). Project of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 541 Identity and Alterity. The Function of Alterity for the Constitution of Identity. University of Freiburg



  • Individual Research Project Araber und Aramäer im östlichen Imperium Romanum, within the context of the Research Group Römisch-imperiale und regionale Identitäten und ihr Wechselspiel im östlichen Imperium Romanum