Publications

Öktem K , Aslan E. When Faith Kills: Understanding Religious Extremism. Springer, 2026. (Wiener Beiträge zur Islamforschung).

Öktem K. Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī and the Knowledge of God in Pre-Modern Qurʾānic Exegesis: Beyond Certainty in Language and Epistemology. Islamic Studies Journal. 2025 Nov 14;2(2):131-162.

Öktem K. The Knowledge of God (maʿrifat Allāh)? A Kalāmic approach to Islamic Religious Education through Transcendence and Scepticism (ḥisba) Beyond Certainty (yaqīn). In Yagdi S, Kocyigit I, Karagedik U, editors, Islamic Theological and Pedagogical Approaches to Religious Education: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Contemporary Challenges. 1 ed. Vol. 1. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag. 2025. (Neue Perspektiven in der islamischen Theologie und Religionspädagogik).

Ebrahim R. Female-Led Theologies in Islam: :Reclaiming Authority, Redefining Tradition. In Ladner G, Dormandy K, editors, Liminal Lives: Women Scholars Challenging Boundaries in Theology and Philosophy of Religion. 1 ed. Routledge. 2025

Kuehn S. Art, Aesthetics and Islamic Mysticism: Contemporary Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.

Cosan Eke D. Gender Dynamics and Religious Transnationalism: Alevi Women in Diaspora. Lexington Books, 2025.

Kuehn S, (ed.). Gendered Visions: Visual Culture and Female Agency in Contemporary Islamic Mysticism. Geneva: MDPI Open Access, 2025.

Cosan Eke D, Djuric Milovanovic A, Zrinščak S. Interreligious Dialogue and Migration: Grassroots Initiatives and Comparative Perspectives from Austria, Croatia, and Serbia. In Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity: Religious and Non-Religious Narratives on Migration. Brill. 2025

Cosan Eke D, Zirh BC, Cetin Ü, Jenkins C. Narratives in the Politics of Recognition of Alevis in the course of migration from Turkey to Western Europe since the 1960s. In Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity: Religious and non-religious Narratives on Migration. Brill. 2025

Cosan Eke D, Zirh BC, Ilengiz C, Gültekin AK. Special Issue on “Entangled Ethnographies on Alevism in Turkey and Beyond”. Wiley-Blackwell, 2025. 2 p.

Kuehn S. Sufi Materiality in Islamic Painting. In Zarcone T, Papas A, editors, Sufi Material Culture. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 2025

Öktem K. Faḫr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzīs (gest. 1210) innovativer Horizont in der sunnitischen Koranexegese: Der kalām als Universalwissenschaft und die Koranexegese als Partikularwissenschaft. In el-Kaisy-Friemuth M, Ighbariah AM, editors, Post-klassische islamische Theologie. De Gruyter. 2024

Öktem K. Koranexegese im Diskurs von historischer Objektivität und Meinungspluralität: Faḫr ad-Dīn ar-Rāzīs (gest. 1210) pluralistischer Ansatz in der sunnitischen Koranexegese am Beispiel von Sprache und Wahrscheinlichkeit. In Koçyiğit I, Yagdi Ş, editors, Interreligiöse Hermeneutik in pluralen Gesellschaften: Begründungen, Herausforderungen, Chancen und Grenzen. 1 ed. Vol. 1. Springer. 2024. p. 183–208

Gad Makhlouf A. Islamische Normativität im westlichen Kontext: Zur Anwendung des kollektiven iǧtihād in Europa. Handbuch der Religionen. 2024 Jun.

Aslan E, Yildiz E. Religiöse Selbstentwürfe im Kontext medialer Islambilder: Plädoyer für eine diversitätsbewusste pädagogische Praxis. Forum Islamisch-Theologische Studien. 2024 Jun;3-25. 1.

Gad Makhlouf A. The establishment of a (pro-)iǧtihād genre: On al-Suyūtī’s contribution to the iǧtihād discourse. Arab Law Quarterly. 2024 Jun.

Aslan E. The Ideal of an Islamic Society. In Jäger T, Thiele R, editors, Handbook of Political Islam in Europe : Activities, Means, and Strategies from Salafists to the Muslim Brotherhood and Beyond. Wiesbaden: Springer. 2024. p. 127-139. (Springer Handbooks of Political Science and International Relations). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-46173-6_8

Kuehn S. Sufi Devotional Aesthetics: Fieldwork in Contemporary Sufi Communities in the Balkans. Marburg Journal of Religion. 2024 Mar 21;25(1):1-29. doi: 10.17192/mjr.2024.25.8694

Kuehn S. Rose Blossoms, Ashura Pudding, and a “Golden Trophy:”: Embodied Material Traces of Islamic Mysticism in Ottoman Hungary. Material religion : the journal of objects, art and belief. 2024 Jan 24;19(5):439-456. RFMR 2285584. doi: 10.1080/17432200.2023.2285584

Aslan E. Die Zukunft des Islam in Europa. Der Standard. 2024 Jan 10.