Courses

Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Semitic and Arabic Studies:

2014/15
Classical Arabic Literature. Methods and Readings

2014/1
Classical Arabic Literature. Methods and Readings

2011/12
The Kitab al-Aghani. Aesthetic Dimensions

2010
Ethnogenesis in the Mediterranean World: The Umayyads and the Visigoths

2009/10
The Desert. Social Reality and Literary Topos in the Arabic Literature

2009
The Shu'ubiyya. Discourses of Cultural Identity in the Abbasid Period

2008/09
The Picatrix of Pseudo-Majriti. An Introduction to Magic und Occult Sciences in Classic Arabic Culture

2008
The Muqaddima of Ibn Khaldun. Historical and Economic Remarks of a Great Arabic Historian

2007/08
The Palm in the West II: The Historians in Andalusia

2007
The Palm in the West I: The belles-lettres in Andalusia

2006/07
al-Hira: A Christian Arabic Metropole



University of Göttingen, Department of Islamic and Arabic Studies:

2014/15
Introduction to the History and Culture of Islam until 1500

2010/11
Introduction to the History and Culture of Islam until 1500

2010/11
The Kharidjites: Origins and Evolution of a Religious Group

2010/11
"Breath of Perfumes": The Arabic Literature in Andalusia

2010/11
Kufa: History of an Early Islamic City