Ayyildiz, Iclal
Ottoman and Turkish history; History in entertainment media
After completing my Bachelor's degree in History, with a minor in Comparative Cultural and Religious Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, I started my second degree at the Institute for Near
Bernhofer, Jasper
Biblical exegesis, codicology, critical editions, digital humanities, Islamicate world, Late Antiquity, manuscript cultures, Middle Ages, Middle Arabic, philosophy
I am a PhD candidate in Judaic Studies at Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg, having obtained an MA in Semitic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, with studies abroad at INALCO in Paris and
Connolly, Magdalen
Arabic, Judeo-Arabic, historical linguistics, Cairo Genizah collections, codicology and palaeography of manuscripts
My research centres on pre-modern “non-standard” Arabic writing. The focus of my work is primarily linguistic; I am interested in diachronic developments in the orthography, morphology, and syntax of Middle
Froschmeier, Lukas
Arabic media, Arabic, Hebrew, Arabic travel reports
I am a graduate student in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. I am interested in foreign languages and cultures. My main focus is Arabic, with a
Gibson, Nathan
Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations, Syriac communities, social encounters, network analysis, polemics and argumentation, digital humanities
In my research, I focus on communication and knowledge exchange among Muslim, Christian, and Jewish communities in the medieval Near East. Although many of these interactions took place over a
Graziani, Lola
History of the Hebrew language, Semitic languages, linguistics, Jewish thought, Jewish mysticism
I am an undergraduate student of Middle Eastern Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. During the academic year 2021–2022, I studied abroad at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. At LMU, I
Hieke, Sebastian
manuscripts, codicology, Arabic Bible, Arabic documents, Syriac, Judeo-Arabic, history of grammar
I am a Student Assistant in the DFG-funded project “Independence and Diversity: Unknown Qaraite Bible Commentaries in Judeo-Arabic from the Early Classical Age”. Therein, I am assisting in the translation
Kloos, Caroline
Arabic language, History of religion, History of art
I am a Student Assistant on the project “Beyond Conflict and Coexistence. Entangled History of Jewish-Arab Relations”. As an undergraduate student of Religious Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich, my
Koss, Jonas
Genizah, Islamization, early structures of state, society and law, religious laws, global trade, contracts, structure of Jewish community, patronage and reciprocity
In 2019 I completed my studies in social sciences at Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf, where I developed a special regional interest in the Near and Middle East. As a result, I decided
Kurowski, Noah
Kurdish studies, Arabic language, Arab media, Iraqi Kurdistan
I am currently in the BA program in Near and Middle East Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. The first relevant regional language I started learning was Arabic, the second is
Lipika Pelham
I am a research fellow of the VW Momentum programme: From Pre-Modern to Modern Perspectives in Judaic Studies, at the Institute of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich.
Mazzola, Marianna
medieval Middle East (7th–13th centuries), Syriac Christianity and its relations with Byzantium and Islam, Eastern Christian political thought in the Islamicate world, Syriac historiography, philology and codicology (including excerpt collections in transcultural comparison)
Trained as an Oriental philologist at Pisa University, I earned a joint PhD in history from Ghent University and the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris. My research pertains
Posegay, Nick
Middle Eastern studies, intellectual history, Semitic languages, Genizah studies, archival history
I am a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, researching interfaith exchange in the intellectual history of Syriac,
Russo, Mai
Phonetics, Psycholinguistics, Language acquisition
I’m an undergraduate student for Speech Science at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. I was born and raised in Israel, with Hebrew as my mother tongue. Following my move to Germany,
Wiesbeck, Tilman
Arabic-speaking Jews, (post)colonialism, Orientalism, transnationalism, media science
Modern Hebrew and Arabic are the languages I have learned at the Institute for Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU), Munich. This enables me to combine different
Willimsky, Carolin
influence of religion, women as actors of history, Jewish–Muslim similarities, Hebrew, Arabic, radicalisation
I am a research assistant on the project “Beyond Conflict and Coexistence. Entangled History of Jewish-Arab Relations”. I have been enrolled in the master’s programme in Middle Eastern studies at
