I am a research assistant and doctoral candidate at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Münster. Here I completed my Master’s degree in Islamic and Arabic Studies in March 2022. I completed my Bachelor’s degree in History and Society of the Near East with a focus on Islamic Studies at the Free University in Berlin. Before that, I worked for several years at the German Foreign Office and in a political foundation in Berlin in Public Relations.
My focus is on early modern Islamic history (ca. 1600 to 1900). Here, I am currently particularly interested in translocal connections between the different regions of the Islamicate world, with a focus on social and cultural history, history of knowledge as well as the history of libraries.
In my doctoral project, I am looking at discourses around genealogy and credibility in the 17th and 18th centuries. In doing so, I am examining texts on the prophetic descendants (šurafāʾ / ašrāf / sāda) in Morocco and other regions of the Islamic world for practices of evidence production.
In my master’s thesis, I looked at the origins, history, and contents of a 17th-century Moroccan library. The title of the thesis was „Knowledge in a Network. The Library of the Sufi Brotherhood an-Nāṣiriyya in Tamgrūt, Morocco.“ Currently, I am working on a paper about the history of the library and on another paper about the main copyists I have identified in the Tamgrūt collection.
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