Key research areas

Arabic

Arabic is not only the language of the Koran and the Prophet Muhammad, but has also been established as the language of administration, literature and Islamic academia in the early centuries of Islam. As such, it is...

Islam in Contemporary Society

The focus of this chair lies on transdisciplinary interaction with stakeholders in society and the public, which takes into consideration the plurality of the different forms of Islam and, in particular, the specificity of Islamic...

Islamic jurisprudence

Islamic jurisprudence (Fiqh) represents a discipline of Islamic theology that deals with the development of norms to regulate Muslim social life. It is characterised by the variability of norms and is determined by time and space as well as by internal plurality and diversity. ...

Islamic-Theological Philology: Textual Studies of Koran and Hadith

The Islamic-Theological Philology: Textual Studies of Koran and Hadith represent two core disciplines of Islamic theology, which can look back on an intellectual history that is diverse and steeped in tradition. At our...