In this blog, I share news about talks and events, updates on ongoing projects, and tutorials. I also share anything important to me or that I want to document. I follow the idea of the IndieWeb with this: Content belongs to the people who create it. It shouldn’t disappear just because platforms go out of business, get sold, or become inaccessible for other reasons. That’s why I post here what is often posted directly on social media.
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Hier veröffentliche ich Ankündigungen zu Vorträgen und Veranstaltungen, Einblicke in laufende Projekte, Tutorials – und Dinge, die mir wichtig sind oder die ich dokumentieren möchte. Damit folge ich der Idee des IndieWeb: Inhalte gehören denjenigen, die sie erstellen. Sie sollten nicht verschwinden, nur weil Plattformen ihren Betrieb einstellen, verkauft werden oder aus anderen Gründen nicht mehr zugänglich sind. Deshalb poste ich hier, was sonst oft direkt auf Social Media landet.
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Panel „A Culture of Certainty: Islam, Knowledge, and the Search for Truth in Unstable and Uncertain Times“ (Vienna, 11.07.2025)
In July, I will be attending the annual conference of the European Academy of Religion in Vienna. Claire Gallien (Cambridge) invited me to participate in the panel she organized on the intriguing topic, „A Culture of Certainty: Islam, Knowledge, and the Search for Truth in Unstable and Uncertain Times.“ The panel is scheduled to take…
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CfP Conference „Poetry and Knowledge“ (Münster, 20.-22.11.2025)
We invite papers for an upcoming conference in Münster, Germany (November 20–22, 2025), focusing on Arabic poetry as a medium of knowledge. In premodern Islamic societies, poetry was one of the central literary forms for transmitting and disseminating knowledge. Poetry can be found in almost all fields of knowledge, from Qurʾanic sciences, jurisprudence, grammar, rhetoric,…
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Workshop „The Visual Scribe“ (Berlin, 10.-11.04.2025)
On 10 and 11 April 2025, I will be attending the workshop ‘The Visual Scribe: Tables and Diagrams in Middle Eastern Manuscripts‘ in Berlin, with a talk on the representation of lineage in genealogical trees from the Western Maghrib in the 17th and 18th centuries. Anyone wishing to participate online or in person is kindly…
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How to Set up and Maintain Your Academic Reading List in Obsidian
A few days ago, I posted on Mastodon about my excitement for the new Projects plugin for Obsidian by Marcus Olsson and the great possibilities it offers for keeping a reading list, for example. Some have asked if I can write up how I accomplished that. I will gladly do so.
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Masterarbeit: Wissen im Netzwerk
Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts gründeten Maḥammad b. Maḥammad b. Nāṣir (gest. 1085/1674) und sein Sohn Aḥmad b. Nāṣir al-Ḫalīfa (gest. 1129/1717) mit der Nāṣiriyya eine der einflussreichsten Sufibruderschaften ihrer Zeit in Nord- und Westafrika. In einer Periode, die von den Kämpfen um die Nachfolge des verstorbenen marokkanischen Sultans Aḥmad al-Manṣūr (gest. 1011/1603) sowie von Dürre…