Dr. Rebecca Sauer
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Islamic Studies (Arabistics) Telephone: (0)6221-54 29 64 |
Address
Seminar für Sprachen und Kulturen des Vorderen Orients
Albert-Ueberle Straße 3-5
69117 Heidelberg
EDUCATION
University of Cologne, Germany
November 2013
Ph.D. in Arabic and Islamic Studies,
Dissertation: “Rebellion Widerstand. Politisch-religiös motivierte Gewalt im innerislamischen Diskurs. Eine Untersuchung vormoderner und moderner Korankommentare”.
July 2006
M.A. in Arabic and Islamic Studies.
GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
2009-2011
Doctoral Scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Department for Arabic and Islamic Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany
2011 to present
Research Associate, focusing on al-Qalqashandī’s encyclopaedia Ṣubḥ al-Aʿshā fī ṣināʿat al-inshāʾ. Research Project on “Profession and Training in Islamic Chancery Practice (adab al-kātib) or: Administration as the Ultimate Discipline” under the auspices of the Collaborative Research Center 933 “Material Text Cultures. Materiality and Presence of Writing in Non-Typographic Societies”, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
Courses taught include “Orality and Literacy during the Early and Middle Periods of Islamic History” (winter term 2013/14), “Media History of the Middle East” (summer term 2014), “A Close Reading of ‘Classics’ in Islamic Studies” (winter term 2015/16), “Islam and the Body” (summer term 2016) and “The Body, ritual and habitus in Islam” (winter term 2017/18).
Department for Oriental Studies, University of Cologne, Germany
2008-2011
Assistant Lecturer, giving seminars on “Pre-modern Islamic Intellectual History”, Qurʾān (2009-2011), “Travel literature in Arabic (19th century) and the Nahḍa” (2008)
Orient Institute Beirut (OIB)
Aug.-Oct. 2004
Library internship
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Monographs:
- The Social Life of Texts: Shihāb al-Dīn al-Qalqashandī between Chancery Practice and the Normative, postdoctoral dissertation (in progress, to be completed in autumn 2018).
- Rebellion und Widerstand – Politisch-Religiös motivierte Gewalt im innerislamischen Diskurs. Eine Untersuchung vormoderner und moderner Korankommentare, Würzburg: Ergon (Kultur, Recht und Politik in muslimischen Gesellschaften 27), 2013 (published dissertation).
Edited Volumes:
- (with Thomas Meier and Michael R. Ott), Materiale Textkulturen. Konzepte, Materialien, Praktiken. Berlin, Munich e.a.: De Gruyter (Materiale Textkulturen 1), 2015.
- (with Susanne Enderwitz), Communication and Materiality. Berlin: De Gruyter (Materiale Textkulturen 8), 2015.
Articles and Bookchapters:
- “Books as memory devices and lieux de mémoire in Medieval Islamic Culture”, in: KODEX themed issue (forthcoming).
- “Der ‘Krönungsmantel Rogers’. Ein Gewand zwischen Orient und Okzident”, in: Michaela Böttner e.a. (eds.), 5300 Jahre Schrift. Heidelberg, 2017, 90-93.
- “Der Schreiber – die beredte Zunge der Herrscher”, in: Charlotte Lagemann, Tina Schöbel and Christian Vater (eds.), Leben, Dinge, Texte, Heidelberg, 2015 u. 2017 (online-ed.), 14-15.
- „The Textile Performance of the Written Word”, in: Susanne Enderwitz, Rebecca Sauer (eds.), Communication and Materiality. Berlin: De Gruyter (Materiale Textkulturen 8), 2015, 113-128.
- „Tafsīr between law and exegesis: the case of Q 49:9”, in: Andreas Görke, Johanna Pink (eds.), Tafsīr and Islamic Intellectual History, OUP, 2014, 225-252.
- (with Christoph Mauntel, Christoffer Theis und Kai Trampedach), „Beschädigen und Zerstören“, in: Thomas Meier, Michael R. Ott and Rebecca Sauer (eds.), Materiale Textkulturen. Konzepte, Materialien, Praktiken. Berlin: De Gruyter (Materiale Textkulturen 1), 2014, 735-746.
- (with Carla Meyer), „Papier“, in: Thomas Meier, Michael R. Ott and Rebecca Sauer (eds.), Materiale Textkulturen. Konzepte, Materialien, Praktiken. Berlin: De Gruyter (Materiale Textkulturen 1), 2014, 355-370.
- (with Susanne Enderwitz and Robert Folger), „Einweben und Aufnähen“, in: Thomas Meier, Michael R. Ott and Rebecca Sauer (eds.), Materiale Textkulturen. Konzepte, Materialien, Praktiken. Berlin: De Gruyter (Materiale Textkulturen 1), 2014, 567-584.
- (with Susanne Enderwitz, Enno Giele and Michael R. Ott), „Textilien“, in: Thomas Meier, Michael R. Ott and Rebecca Sauer (eds.), Materiale Textkulturen. Konzepte, Materialien, Praktiken. Berlin: De Gruyter (Materiale Textkulturen 1), 2014, 421-438.
- „Der Kātib als Medium: Überlegungen zum performativen Potential des Verschriftlichten“, in: Material Text Culture Blog 3/2014.
- (with Carla Meyer, Sabine Neumann, Sandra Schultz and Melanie Trede), „Paper in the Laboratory. Material Science and Conservation of Historical Paper in an Intercultural Comparison (17.-19.7.2013). Ein Tagungsbericht”, Material Text Culture Blog 7/2013.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Native Speaker of German, excellent command of English and Arabic, good command of Persian, French and Finnish, basics in Italian.
