Britta Frede
Britta Frede holds a PhD in Islamic Studies. She is currently holds the chair of Islamic Studies at the Faculty of Languages and Literatures. Her general research interest concerns south-south relations and processes of religious and social transformation since 1800. During her doctoral thesis, she worked on the history of Sufi revivalism in 19th and 20th century Mauritania. Currently she works on informal settings of Islamic knowledge transmission in contemporary urban Kenya and Mauritania, with a special focus on female learning circles by considering their ethno-gender specific contexts. Since 2006, she held positions funded by BMBF, DFG and Volkswagen Foundation as research fellow at Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient, Free University, and Humboldt University in Berlin. She was hosted as postdoctoral guest research fellow at Cape Town University, South Africa (2015) and ASC in Leiden, Netherlands (2016). From 2013 to 2020 she cooperated as German Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Halkano Abdi Wario (Egerton University, Kenya) about the mediatisation of Islamic knowledge in Kenyan mosque bulletins and counter radicalisation campaigns within the funding program “Knowledge for Tomorrow” (Volkswagen Foundation). Since 2015 she is a member of the editorial board of the international journal Islamic Africa (Brill).
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag and Prof. Dr. Baz Lecocq
Address: Universität Bayreuth
Islamwissenschaft GWI/1.02
Universitätsstr. 30
95448 Bayreuth
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag and Prof. Dr. Baz Lecocq
Address: Universität Bayreuth
Islamwissenschaft GWI/1.02
Universitätsstr. 30
95448 Bayreuth
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