Projects

  • Contemporary Art and Sufi Aesthetics in European Context
    Research project conducted in the framework of a research fellowship granted by the Academy for Islam in Research and Society (AIWG) at the Goethe University in Frankfurt funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Stiftung Mercator [grant number 3309010003]
    2021–2022
    Project description
    Organized within the framework of Sara Kuehn’s fellowship:
    international conference "Art, Aesthetics and Islamic Mysticism: Contemporary Perspectives", convened by the Centre for Islamic Theology (ZITh), University of Tübingen, and the Department for Interreligious Dialogue, Academy of the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart, 30–31 March 2023
    Outcome: 1 international conference, 3 conference presentations, 2 peer-reviewed journal articles, and 1 edited volume: Art, Aesthetics and Islamic Mysticism: Contemporary Perspectives (preliminary title)  

  • The Visual Culture of Sufism in France and in Germany (SufiVisual)
    Research Project conducted in the framework of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) under Horizon 2020–EU.1.3.2. – Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility / European Commission (Project ID: 794958)
    2018-2020
    Project description
    Outcome: 1 international conference, 1 workshop, 14 conference presentations, 2 peer-reviewed journal articles, 2 book chapters, 1 edited volume (contracted/forthcoming), 1 monograph (forthcoming)

  • Gender and Islam
    Since 2018
    Female Visions: The Religious Visual Culture of Contemporary Female Islamic Mysticism (provisional title)
    Collective volume edited by Sara Kuehn and Amila Buturovic (Leiden: Brill)
    which developed out of the international conference "Female Visions: The Religious Visual Culture of Contemporary Female Islamic Mysticism", 16–18 October 2020, Stuttgart
    organized in the framework of Sara Kuehn’s research project "The Visual Culture of Sufism in France and in Germany"
    Conference report (in German)
    Institut d’ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative (IDEMEC) / Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Zentrum für Islamische Theologie (ZITh), Universität Tübingen Centre for Islamic Theology (ZITh), University of Tübingen und Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart
    Outcome: 1 international conference, 4 conference presentations, 3 peer-reviewed book chapters, 1 edited volume

  • The Mosaic of Contemporary Sufism in Western Europe
    Exhibition project with Manoël Pénicaud and Francesco Piraino
    Since 2018
    In this frameworks, see Spuren des Sufismus in Europa/Traces of Sufism in Europe, Photo Exhibition Sara Kuehn, at the Department of Islamic Theological Studies, University of Vienna, 15 March–14 April 2023

  • Materiality of Religion    
    Research project on the visual and material culture of Sufism in Central and Southeastern Europe (Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Novi Pazar Sandžak in Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, the Dobruja, Romania, the Crimea, Ukraine, and Hungary) funded by the Austrian Research Foundation/Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft (ÖFG) [MOEL-477]
    2011–2012
    Outcome: 4 peer-reviewed book chapters, 3 conference presentations, 18 conference presentations

  • Angels in Islam
    Research project conducted in the framework of a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Orient-Institut Beirut der Max Weber Stiftung (OIB), Beirut
    2015–2019
    The Intermediate Worlds of Angels. Islamic Representations of Celestial Beings in Transcultural Contexts
    Collective volume edited by Sara Kuehn, Stefan Leder and Hans-Peter Pökel, which developed out of the international conference "Angels and Mankind: Nature, Role and Function of Celestial Beings in Near Eastern and Islamic Traditions" (organized by Sara Kuehn, Stefan Leder and Hans-Peter Pökel) at the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB), the Monastery of Balamand and the St. John of Damascus Institute of Theology, University of Balamand (UOB), 2–4 July 2015
    Outcome: 1 international conference, 1 conference panel, 4 conference presentations, 2 peer-reviewed book chapters, 1 journal article, 1 edited volume

  • Shared Sacred Spaces
    Research project conducted in the framework of a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study of Aix-Marseille University – AMU (IMéRA), Marseille
    Since 2015
    Holy Sites in the Mediterranean, Sharing and Division. Guest-edited journal by Sara Kuehn, Dionigi Albera and Manoël Pénicaud which developed out of the international conference "Lieux saints en Méditerranée. Entre partage et partition" (organized by Dionigi Albera, Sara Kuehn and Manoël Pénicaud), at the Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée (MuCEM), Marseille, 3–5 June 2015
    Outcome: 4 conference presentations, 4 peer-reviewed journal articles, 4 peer-reviewed book chapters, 1 guest-edited journal

  • Environmentalism and Ecology in Sufism
    Research Project and fieldwork on the spiritual ecology of Sufism in the Indian Subcontinent (Pakistan, India and Bangladesh Europe) conducted in the framework of a European Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Program (EURIAS) / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship
    Since 2014
    Outcome: 1 peer-reviewed journal article, 5 conference presentations

  • The Visual and Material Culture of Sufism in Central and Southeastern Europe
    Fellowships and grants for pilot study and fieldwork on the visual and material culture of Sufism in Central and Southeastern Europe (Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Novi Pazar Sandžak in Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, the Dobruja, Romania, the Crimea, Ukraine and Hungary) funded by the Austrian Research Foundation/Österreichische Forschungsgemeinschaft (ÖFG); the London Academy of Iranian Studies, London; and EURIAS / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship as part of the EU-funded project EU-Institutions for Advanced Study Fellowship Program (EU-IAS-FP), NEC-Institute for Advanced Study (Junior Fellow)
    2011–2015
    Outcome: 12 conference presentations, 1 peer-reviewed journal articles, 1 monograph (forthcoming)

  • Monsters, Hybrids, and Deviants in Western Asia
    Grant by the Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF), London
    Since 2011
    The Dragon in Medieval East Christian and Islamic Art. With a Foreword by Robert Hillenbrand (Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts 86, Leiden: Brill 2011)
    Awarded: 20th Joint World Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2013, issued by the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
    6 international book reviews
    Monsters or Bearers of Life-Giving Powers? Trans-Religious Migrations of an Ancient Western Asian Symbolism. With a Foreword by Lokesh Chandra (New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts 2016)
    Ongoing book projects include a transhistorical study focusing on the riddle of hybridity and species-defying anatomies generally expressed either in mixed animal-human or mixed animal anatomical form in Western Asia, provisionally titled Monsters, Hybrids, and Deviants in Western Asia (2500 BCE to 650 CE).
    Outcome: 26 conference presentations, 5 peer-reviewed journal articles, 9 book chapters, 2 monographs, 1 monograph (forthcoming)
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