Birgit Krawietz

Birgit Krawietz is professor of Islamic Studies.

Biography

Birgit Krawietz is professor of Islamic Studies.[1] She earned her PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Freiburg in 1990. From 1992 to 1998 she worked as a post-doctoral assistant at the Orientalische Seminar at the University of Tübingen. After having finished her habilitation with Professor Joseph van Ess about "Hierarchie der Rechtsquellen im tradierten sunnitischen Islam" [2] she left for the United States to work as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Later she continued as a Heisenberg fellow at the Islamic Studies Program at Harvard Law School and the Center for Middle East Studies of Harvard University.

After her return to Germany she continued as a research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) near Berlin [3] and taught as a visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Zurich and the Ruhr University of Bochum. She now has tenure as a professor at the Institute of Islamic Studies [4] and the Berlin Graduate School of Muslim Cultures at the Free University of Berlin.[5]

Her areas of expertise cover Islamic law, Hanbali school of law, Salafism, sports, body and culture, urbanism in Turkey and the Gulf.

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. Köln: 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.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/en/people/pis/birgit_krawietz.html
  2. ↑ https://www.amazon.de/Hierarchie-Rechtsquellen-tradierten-sunnitischen-Rechtstheorie/dp/3428103025
  3. ↑ https://www.zmo.de/publikationen/lit_Krawietz.html
  4. ↑ http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/islamwiss/mitarbeiterinnen/professorinnen/Krawietz/index.html
  5. ↑ http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/en/people/pis/birgit_krawietz.html
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