WiSe 23/24: Interdisciplinary and/or Inter-Institutional master's degree programs
M.A. Interdisciplinary Studies of the Middle East (2020 study regulations)
0593a_MA120Please find the current study and examination regulations here .
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Histories and Societies of the Middle East
0593aB1.1Learning objectives:
Students have in-depth knowledge and understanding of the historical and social formations of the Near and Middle East from late antiquity to the present as well as the historical conditions since antiquity. They are familiar with important current theoretical and methodological debates in social history research that are relevant to the study of the Near and Middle East. Students can recognize, classify, and articulate the circumstances and problems surrounding socialhistorical descriptions of the Near and Middle East; they also know how to consult, evaluate, and interpret source material independently and to apply the tools of history and social sciences when dealing with questions they have developed themselves. They are aware of the central categories of analysis used to examine historical and social processes and know how to discuss and present the results of their scholarly analyses orally and in writing.Content:
In this module, students engage intensively with complex topics such as periodization, dimensions of space (power centers vs. peripheral regions, transregional connections), governance, statehood and social groups as well as identity, mobility, communication, and ethnic and religious minorities. The module teaches them to reflect on topics from the fields of Arab-Islamic, Arab-Christian and Syrian-Christian, Byzantine, Persian, Jewish or Turkish history as well as from historical source studies considering theories and methods specific to historical and social science and by critically evaluating scholarly debates in these fields.Modes of instruction/ Contact hours / Regular attendance required
Elective course / 2 SWS / yesElective course / 2 SWS / yes
Module assessment
Written assignment (approx. 5000 words)Language
English (or if applicable, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac-Aramaic,Turkish)Total workload
450 hours (15 credit points)duration / Frequency
One or two semesters / Every semester close-
14310-ISME
Practice seminar
The Mamluk Sultanate in Its Global Context (Christian Mauder)
Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-19)
Location: 1.2051 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14311-ISME
Seminar
Sports, Games, and Entertainment in Islamic Historical and Contemporary Perspective (Birgit Krawietz)
Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-17)
Location: 2.2063 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14316-ISME
Seminar
(Post-)Colonialism, Authoritarianism, and Authenticity: Sociology in Arab Societies (Florian Zemmin)
Schedule: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-16)
Location: 2.2059 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14317-ISME
Practice seminar
`Ilm al-ijtima´: topics of Arabic sociology (Florian Zemmin)
Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-16)
Location: 2.2059 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14462
Advanced seminar
Empires of Ancient Iran: Self-Representation and Interaction (Stefan Härtel)
Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-16)
Location: 1.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14466
Advanced seminar
Iran and Turan: Sogdians and Turks on the Silk Road (Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst)
Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-17)
Location: 1.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14527
Reading Course
Reading Ottoman Sources (Toygun Altintas)
Schedule: Mi 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-18)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14309-ISME
Introductory Course
The Mamluk Sultanate in Its Global Context (Christian Mauder)
Schedule: Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-19)
Location: 1.2051 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14312-ISME
Reading Course
Sports, Games, and Entertainment in Islamic Historical and Contemporary Perspective (Birgit Krawietz)
Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-17)
Location: 2.2058 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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16270
Lecture
Byzanz: Facetten eines Faches (Johannes Niehoff)
Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-17)
Location: K 29/204 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
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16272
Lecture
Byzantinische Geschichte und "New Historicism" (Johannes Niehoff)
Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-17)
Location: K 29/204 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
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14310-ISME
Practice seminar
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Traditions of Texts and Knowledge in the Middle East
0593aB1.2Learning objectives:
Students have a thorough understanding of the emergence and systematization of various traditions of knowledge and texts in the Near and Middle East, including their presentation and mediality, as well as the people involved in those traditions and the authority associated with them regarding religious, social and epistemological structures, especially from the beginnings of Islam to the present. They are aware of the historical and contemporary processes of collective formation and positioning of identity in cultures of knowledge and texts in the Near and Middle East; they have a conceptual toolkit of established theories and methods from the history of knowledge, cultural studies, and philology, which allows them to reflect on sources from different knowledge and text cultures and to present the results of their analyses orally and in writing appropriately.Content:
The module deals with the history and current significance of textual cultures and knowledge cultures from the Near and Middle East, especially from the beginnings of Islam to the present day. This includes, on the one hand, the reception and further development of antiquity’s legacy in natural sciences and humanities (in philosophy, logic, mysticism, etc.) as well as scientific literature in the broadest sense through the centuries and, on the other hand, normative traditions, such as the exegesis of sacred texts as well as the study of traditions, norms, dogmatics, hagiography, religious ethics, or rituals. One focus is on the cultural and intellectual history of the Arabic-speaking world, Jewish history of knowledge and the relationship between Judaism and Islam as well as facets of the Christian Orient and Iranian religions in the past and present.Modes of instruction/ Contact hours / Regular attendance required
Elective course / 2 SWS / yesElective course / 2 SWS / yes
Module assessment
Written assignment (approx. 5000 words)Language
English (or if applicable, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac-Aramaic,Turkish)Total workload
450 hours (15 credit points)duration / Frequency
One or two semesters / Every semester close-
13951
Seminar
Reading Divinatory Texts in Translation (Cale Johnson)
Schedule: Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-19)
Location: Arnimallee 10, Raum 010
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14311-ISME
Seminar
Sports, Games, and Entertainment in Islamic Historical and Contemporary Perspective (Birgit Krawietz)
Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-17)
Location: 2.2063 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14316-ISME
Seminar
(Post-)Colonialism, Authoritarianism, and Authenticity: Sociology in Arab Societies (Florian Zemmin)
Schedule: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-16)
Location: 2.2059 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14610
Advanced Seminar
Basic questions in Jewish Philosophy (Lukas Mühlethaler)
Schedule: Mo 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-23)
Location: 0.2002
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14628
Lecture
Introduction to the History of Jewish Knowledge (Lukas Mühlethaler)
Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-24)
Location: 0.2002
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13950
Lecture
Divination in the Ancient World (Cale Johnson)
Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-19)
Location: Arnimallee 10, Raum 010
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13955
Lecture
Introduction to Numeracy and Mathematics in the Ancient World (Antonius Ossendrijver)
Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-17)
Location: Arnimallee 10, Raum 010
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14312-ISME
Reading Course
Sports, Games, and Entertainment in Islamic Historical and Contemporary Perspective (Birgit Krawietz)
Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-17)
Location: 2.2058 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14317-ISME
Practice seminar
`Ilm al-ijtima´: topics of Arabic sociology (Florian Zemmin)
Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-16)
Location: 2.2059 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14461
Lecture
Zoroastrianism I (Alberto Cantera Glera)
Schedule: Do 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-19)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14466
Advanced seminar
Iran and Turan: Sogdians and Turks on the Silk Road (Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst)
Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-17)
Location: 1.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14527
Reading Course
Reading Ottoman Sources (Toygun Altintas)
Schedule: Mi 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-18)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14611
Reading Course
Modern Jewish Philosophy of Religion in Hebrew (Lukas Mühlethaler)
Schedule: Mo 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-23)
Location: 0.2002
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14629
Advanced seminar
Rabbinic Judaism and Contemporary Challenges (Lukas Mühlethaler)
Schedule: Mo 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-23)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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13951
Seminar
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Languages of the Middle East
0593aB1.3Learning objectives:
Students can reflect critically on linguistic developments in the Near and Middle East drawing from the most important primary and secondary sources. They know the principles of classifying languages of the region (e.g. historically, comparatively, typologically, regionally) and are confident in applying various methods from empirical linguistics to the languages of the region (e.g. language documentation, field research, dialectology, variational linguistics, sociolinguistics). They know how to make use of models and examples demonstrating the complex interrelationship between language and society in different historical contexts; they can examine oral and written sources independently regarding linguistic issues and to present their observations in oral and written form in a structured and logical way.Content:
The courses provide an overview of the region’s language groups, their historical sources, and their current classification (e.g. Semitic, Iranian, Turkish); furthermore, the module surveys linguistic ecology regarding topics such as nation states, minorities, gender, regional languages, diglossia, writing systems, and linguistic ideologies.Modes of instruction/ Contact hours / Regular attendance required
Elective course / 2 SWS / yesElective course / 2 SWS / yes
Module assessment
Written assignment (approx. 5000 words)Language
English (or if applicable, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac-Aramaic,Turkish)Total workload
450 hours (15 credit points)duration / Frequency
One or two semesters / Every semester close-
14357
Language Course
Genres of Arabic Literature (Isabelle Felenda)
Schedule: Mo 10:00-12:00, Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-16)
Location: 1.2052 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14402
Methods Tutorial
(MÜ) Introduction to Ugaritic (Grace Jeongyeon Park)
Schedule: Mi 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-18)
Location: 0.2051 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14406
Reading Course
(Lk) Damascus Arabic: Text-Structure-Meaning (Maciej Klimiuk)
Schedule: Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-19)
Location: 1.2058 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14411
Miscellaneous
Cancelled
Studies on the Arabic language: From the Arabic linguistic tradition to modern linguistic Theories (Simona Olivieri)
Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-18)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14458
Basic Course
Avestan I (Alberto Cantera Glera)
Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-18)
Location: -1.1020 (UG Holzlaube) (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14459
Basic Course
Middle Persian I (Alberto Cantera Glera)
Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-17)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14463
Seminar
Northern Kurdish I (Kurmanci) (Khanna Usoyan)
Schedule: Mi 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-18)
Location: 2.2063 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14401
Advanced Seminar
(VS) Northwest Semitic Inscriptions (Grace Jeongyeon Park)
Schedule: Fr 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-20)
Location: 1.2001 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14403
Seminar
(S) Comparative Semitics (Simona Olivieri)
Schedule: Mi 10:00-12:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2023-10-18)
Location: 2.2059 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14404
Advanced seminar
(HS) Inscriptions from Turabdin (Shabo Talay)
Schedule: Di 10:00-12:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-17)
Location: 2.2058 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14405
Advanced seminar
(HS) Introduction to Arabic Dialectology (Maciej Klimiuk)
Schedule: Di 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-17)
Location: 1.2051 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14410
Reading Course
(Lk) Koran und Syriac literature (Yousef Kouriyhe)
Schedule: Fr 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-20)
Location: 1.2001 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14464
Seminar
New Persian I (Ramin Shahzadi)
Schedule: Do 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-19)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14465
Seminar
Introduction to Iranian Linguistics: from Proto-Iranian to Middle Iranian (Alberto Cantera Glera)
Schedule: Di 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-17)
Location: 1.2058 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14467
Reading Course
Bactrian II (Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst)
Schedule: Fr 13:00-15:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-20)
Location: 1.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14468
Reading Course
Sogdian II (Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst)
Schedule: Fr 15:00-17:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-20)
Location: 1.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14631
Reading Course
Research Literature in Hebrew (Vera Meyer-Laurin)
Schedule: Mo 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-16)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14357
Language Course
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Literatures of the Middle East in their Social Dimensions
0593aB1.4Learning objectives:
Students develop their analytical skills in the scholarly handling of written and oral sources from the Near and Middle East; they have an awareness of the origins and reception of literary production in the past and present. They can approach research questions in a methodologically and terminologically reflective manner based on various genres of texts and literary phenomena; they know how to evaluate secondary literature as well as the most important primary sources critically, and to describe, analyze and classify them historically and aesthetically. They can recognize connections and intertextual references and understand and historically contextualize mutual influences, continuities, and ruptures. They strengthen their ability to reflect and reason complex, multilingual, transregional matters. They are skilled to reflect their approaches to research questions and to present their analyses orally and in writing appropriately.Content:
The module deals with selected epochs, authors, genres, language levels of the Near and Middle East or of a specific literary genre, using the most important sources and critically illuminating specialist literature. The courses provide an overview of partial epochs or literary genres, including debates concerning specific literary, social and gender-historical research problems. Students discuss significant texts in the regional languages regarding authorship, production processes, and media representations, as well as to influences and patterns of perception that have an impact on the literary reception from the regions of the Near and Middle East; thereby, they experiment with theoretical approaches to interpretation of sources from Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, Syriac-Aramaic, or Turkish literature.Modes of instruction/ Contact hours / Regular attendance required
Elective course / 2 SWS / yesElective course / 2 SWS / yes
Module assessment
Written assignment (approx. 5000 words)Language
English (or if applicable, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Syriac-Aramaic,Turkish)Total workload
450 hours (15 credit points)duration / Frequency
One or two semesters / Every semester close-
14631
Reading Course
Research Literature in Hebrew (Vera Meyer-Laurin)
Schedule: Mo 18:00-20:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-16)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14355
Advanced Seminar
Klassiker der arabischen Literatur (Beatrice Gründler)
Schedule: Mi 16:00-18:00, zusätzliche Termine siehe LV-Details (Class starts on: 2023-10-18)
Location: 1.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14356
Reading Course
Banquet of words - food in Arabic literature (Isabel Toral-Niehoff)
Schedule: Do 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-19)
Location: -1.1020 (UG Holzlaube) (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14364
Advanced Seminar
Potentialities of Magical Realism in Arabic Literature (Sanabel Abdelrahman)
Schedule: Di 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-17)
Location: JK 25/138 weitere Hinweise zur Austattun
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14365
Reading Course
Al-Nahda: Introduction to Modern Arabic Literature (Maysoon Shibi)
Schedule: Do 16:00-18:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-19)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14460
Seminar
The Literature of Pre-Islamic and Early Islamic Iran (Khanna Usoyan)
Schedule: Do 12:00-14:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-19)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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14527
Reading Course
Reading Ottoman Sources (Toygun Altintas)
Schedule: Mi 08:00-10:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-18)
Location: 0.2002 Seminarraum (Fabeckstr. 23/25)
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16274
Lecture
Byzantinische Literatur vor dem Hntergrund postkolonialer Theoriebildung (Johannes Niehoff)
Schedule: Mi 14:00-16:00 (Class starts on: 2023-10-18)
Location: K 29/204 (Habelschwerdter Allee 45)
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14631
Reading Course