Birgit Krawietz is professor of Islamic Studies at the Institut für Islamwissenschaft at the

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Biography

Birgit Krawietz is professor of Islamic Studies. She earned her PhD in Islamic Studies from the

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in 1990. From 1992 to 1998 she worked as a post-doctoral assistant at the Orientalische Seminar at the

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. After having finished her habilitation with Professor Joseph van Ess at the Orientalische Seminar of the Universität Tübingen about "Hierarchie der Rechtsquellen im tradierten sunnitischen Islam" she left for the United States to join the

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in Princeton, New Jersey as a fellow. Later she continued for two years as a Heisenberg fellow at the Islamic Studies Program at

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and the Center for Middle East Studies of

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. After her return to Germany she worked as a research fellow at the

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(ZMO) near Berlin from May 2006 until March 2009. and taught as a visiting professor at the Institut für Islamwissenschaft at the

, the

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and the

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. She now has tenure as a professor at the Institut für Islamwissenschaft and the Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures at the

. Her areas of expertise

Islamic law Sharia (; ar, شريعة, sharīʿa ) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition. It is derived from the religious precepts of Islam and is based on the sacred scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and the ...

, body and space management in Islam, namely the hurma, Hanbali school of law,

Salafism The Salafi movement or Salafism () is a Islah, reform branch movement within Sunni Islam that originated during the nineteenth century. The name refers to advocacy of a return to the traditions of the "pious predecessors" (), the first three g ...

, sports, body and culture, urbanism in

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and the

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Published works

* ''Islam and the rule of law: between Sharia and secularization.'' Sankt Augustin: Konrad Adenauer Foundation 2008. * Selbsttötung und islamische Scharia nach traditioneller sunnitischer Auffassung. In: Sterben von eigener Hand. Selbsttötung als kulturelle Praxis. Hg. Andreas Bähr und

Hans Medick Hans Medick (born 7 October 1939) is a German historian. Life Born in Wuppertal, Medick studied history, philosophy, English and political science at the universities of Cologne University, Cologne, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heide ...

. Cologne: Böhlau, 2005. S. 333-350. * ''Hierarchie der Rechtsquellen im tradierten sunnitischen Islam.'' Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2002. * Grundlagen und Grenzen einer Hirntodkonzeption im Islam. In: Hirntod. Zur Kulturgeschichte der Todesfeststellung. Hg. Thoma Schlich und Claudia Wiesemann. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, 2001. * ''Die Hurma: schariatrechtlicher Schutz vor Eingriffen in die körperliche Unversehrtheit nach arabischen Fatwas des 20. Jahrhunderts.'' Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1991. * Islam, Migration and Jinn - Spiritual Medicine in Muslim Health Management. London, New York: Palgrave MacMillan.

References

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