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Contact
Maurus Reinkowski
Nahoststudien, Department of Social Sciences, University of Basel
Maiengasse 51, 4056 Basel, Switzerland
Telephone: 41 / 61 / 207 28 60
eMail: [email protected]
https://nahoststudien.unibas.ch/en/about-us/faculty/maurus-reinkowski/

Education
2002 Habilitation (2nd Dr. phil.) in History and Culture of the Muslim World / Turkish Studies,
University of Bamberg, Germany

1995 Dr. phil., Turkish Studies, University of Bamberg

1989 Magister Artium, Arabic Studies, University of Vienna, Austria

Academic Positions
fall 2015 Visiting Professor at Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Sabanci University, Istanbul,
Turkey

since 2010 Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Basel

2008-2010 Senior Fellow, Freiburg Institute of Advanced Studies, School of History

2004-2010 Professor of Islamic, University of Freiburg

2003-2004 Visiting Professor of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Munich

1998-2003 Assistant (~ assistant professor) of Turkish Studies, University of Bamberg

1996-1998 Research Fellow, Orient Institute Istanbul

1995-1996 Research Fellow, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem

Memberships
Swiss Asiatic Society, 2010 –
Swiss Society for the Middle East and Islamic Cultures (SGMOIK), 2010 –
Corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, 2010 –
Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft, 2003 –
German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research (DAVO), 1999 –
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Services to the academic community (selected examples)

2013 – coeditor of journal Asiatische Studien / Etudes Asiatiques and series Welten des Islam,
edited by Swiss Asiatic Society

2012-5 Head of Department of Social Sciences, University of Basel

2012 Head of evaluation committee to Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, initiated by German
Ministry of Research and Education

2012, 2016 Member of evaluation committee with “Strengthening area studies,” initiated by Germany
Ministry of Research and Education

Supervision of Scientific Research

Supervision of dissertations, current (all Basel)

Murat Kaya: Imperialism and Nationalism in Young Turks’ Autobiographies

Sarah Khayati: “Islamistische Umtriebe”? The encounter of Middle Easterners with and
their experience in Switzerland from the 1920s to the 1940s
Ecaterina Matoi: Challenges of State-Building in Iraq: The Roly of the Army in the Post-
Saddam Era
Thomas Volk: Conceptions of the ‘Middle East’ in the Republic of Turkey
Selin Yilmaz: Reconceptualizing the Securitization of the "Never Again" Discourse in the
Context of Existential Threat and its Consequences on the Israeli Arabs

Supervision of Dissertations, Completed

As first supervisor:
2017 Basel Annika Törne: Dersim - Geographie der Erinnerungen. Eine Untersuchung
von Narrativen über Verfolgung und Gewalt
2017 Basel Anna Vakalis: Crime and Intercommunal Relations in Ottoman Macedonia,
1839-1876
2016 Basel Alp Yenen: The Young Turk Aftermath, 1918-1922
2015 Basel Parviz Mullojonov: History of the Tajik Civil War (1992-1997)
2012 Freiburg i. Br. Metin Atmaca: Politics of Alliance and Rivalry on the Ottoman-Iranian
Frontier: The Babans (1500-1851)

As second supervisor:
2014 Strasbourg Neslis ah Leman Başaran: The Muslim-Turkish Merchant and Industrial
Bourgeoisie in Turkey in the 1920’s and Their Relation with the Political
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Power (first supervisor: Paul Dumont)

Konstanz Denise Klein: Historiography and Historical Culture in the Crimean
Khanate (16th-18th Century), (first supervisor: Jürgen Osterhammel)
Basel Lorenz Trein: Begriffener Islam: Zur Formation eines Kollektivsingulars
und zum Islamdiskurs einer europäischen Wissenschafts- und Religions-
geschichte (first supervisor: Jürgen Mohn)
2013 Strasbourg Vafa Goulieva: De veloppement linguistique et transformations sociales et
politiques: le cas de l’azerbaïdjanais moderne (first supervisor: Paul
Dumont)
2012 Genève Aline Schlaepfer: A Bagdad je resterai! Réception et diffusion du concept
de 'nation' chez les intellectuels juifs de Bagdad entre la révolution jeune-
turque et l'émigration (1908-1951) (first supervisor: Silvia Naef)
Bamberg Ali Suat Ürgüplü: Der Nachlass des Mustafa Hayri Efendi (first supervisor:
Klaus Kreiser)
2009 EHESS, Paris Burak Onaran: A Bas le Sultan. La conjuration de Kuleli (1859) et
l’organisation Meslek (1867). Les premières tentatives de détrônement
après l’abolition des janissaires (first supervisor: M. François Georgeon)
Bochum Armina Omerika: Islam in Bosnien-Herzegowina im 20. Jahrhundert. Mit
besonderer Berücksichtigung der Netzwerke der Jungmuslime (1941-1983)
(first supervisor: Stefan Reichmuth)
2005 Freiburg i. Br. Joseph Croitoru: Der Märtyrer als Waffe. Die historischen Wurzeln des
Selbstmordattentats (first supervisor: Bernd Martin)
Freiburg i. Br. Manfred Sing: Progressiver Islam: Die "interne Kritik" des libanesischen
Religionsgelehrten ʿAbdallāh al-ʿAlāyilī (1914-1996) am hegemonialen
islamischen Diskurs. Untersuchung zu Modernität, Relationalität und
Ambivalenz bei konkurrierenden Akteuren des religiösen und literarischen
Feldes (first supervisor: Werner Ende)
Freiburg i. Br. / Anne Françoise Weber: On peut dialoguer sans vivre ensemble et vivre
EHESS, Paris ensemble sans dialoguer" – Relations interreligieuses et construction d'une
unité nationale au Liban (first supervisor: Theodor Hanf)
Freiburg i. Br. Marcel Behrens: ‘Ein Garten des Paradieses’. Die Prophetenmoschee von
Medina seit 1800 (first supervisor: Werner Ende)

Research Projects
2016-9 Cost Action CA15101: Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories, member of
management committee, Switzerland

2016-9 Principal Investigator: “Islamistische Umtriebe”? The encounter of Middle Easterners

with and their experience in Switzerland from the 1920s to the 1940s, funded by Swiss
National Science Foundation.
Researcher in the project: Sarah Djavid Khayati, M.A.

2015-8 Principal Investigator: Order and Transgression. Divergent Representations in Ottoman

Texts (1687-1730), funded by Swiss National Science Foundation.
Researcher in the project: Dr. Felix Konrad
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2013-8 Principal Investigator: Amulet Scrolls Used as Protective Means by Elites: A Study on
Applied Magic in the Muslim World, funded by Swiss National Science Foundation.
Researcher in the project: Dr. Tobias Nünlist
2013-7 SIBA – A Visual Approach to Explore Everyday Life in Turkish and Yugoslav Cities,
1920s and 1930s, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, headed by Prof. Dr.
Nataša Mišković and based at the Seminar of Middle Eastern Studies, Univ. of Basel

Conceptualisation and organisation of major conferences (see separate file)

Review Activities
for institutions:
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2007, 2008, 2010, 2015)
Federal Ministry of Research and Education, Germany (2012, 2016)
German Academic Exchange Service, Germany (2010, 2016)
German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany (2007, 2008, 2010, 2013-16)
European Institutes for Advanced Studies (2013-16)
Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Austria (2011)
Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Germany (2010)
Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Germany (2009, 2014, 2016)
The Israel Science Foundation, Israel (2006, 2013)
Kosova Accreditation Agency, Kosova (2009-11, 2013-15)
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria (2008)
Swiss National Science Foundation, Switzerland (2011-15)
Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes, Germany (2009)
Volkswagen Foundation, Germany (2005, 2012)

for universities:
Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany (2009)
Rice University, Houston, USA (2007)
Ruhr University Bochum, Germany (2010)
University of Bern, Switzerland (2010, 2016)
University of Cyprus, Cyprus (2009, 2012)
University of Erfurt, Germany (2014)
University of Frankfurt, Germany (2012)
University of Heidelberg, Germany (2013)
University of Kiel, Germany (2007)
Université de Nancy II, France (2009)
University of Tübingen, Germany (2011, 2014)
University of Zürich, Switzerland (2014)
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for publications (monographical series and journals):

Al-Abhath (2007)
Asiatische Studien (2012-15)
Brill, Leiden (2009)
Cambridge University Press (2016)
Contributions to the History of of Concepts (2012)
Ergon, Würzburg (2006)
European Journal of Turkish Studies (2011, 2013)
Istanbuler Texte und Studien (2012, 2016)
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (2014)
Journal of Modern European History (2009, 2012, 2014)
Leiden University Press (2015)
Mediterranean History Review (2005)
New Global Studies (2016)
New Perspectives on Turkey (2015)
Südosteuropäische Arbeiten (2007)
Südostforschungen (2009, 2012, 2016)
Südosteuropa. Zeitschrift für Politik und Gesellschaft (2010)
Theologische Zeitschrift (2011)