Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Berliner Institut für Islamische Theologie

Dr. Dženita Karić

Name
Dr. Dženita Karić
Status
wiss. Mitarb.
E-Mail

Einrichtung
Humboldt-Universität → Präsidium → Zentralinstitut Berliner Institut für Islamische Theologie (BIT) → Islamische Ideengeschichte
Funktion / Sachgebiet
Islamische Ideengeschichte der postklassischen Periode
Sitz
Hannoversche Straße 6 , Raum 1.24
Telefon
(030) 2093-98097
Postanschrift
Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin

Foto: Matthias Heyde
Senior Researcher

Lehrstuhl für Islamische Ideengeschichte der postklassischen Periode 1200-1800

Sitz: Hannoversche Straße 6
Email: dzenita.karic@hu-berlin.de

 

Research interests

  • Islamic intellectual history
  • Hajj and ritual
  • Hadith
  • Islam in the Balkans
  • Gender

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

From 06/2020
Researcher at the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology

February 2020
Erasmus+ Teaching and Training Mobility at KU Leuven
Arabic and Islamic studies

2019-2020
Teach@Tubingen Fellow at the ZiTh Tubingen

2017
Teaching assistant at the QMUL, University of London

2009-2019
Researcher at the Oriental Institute in Sarajevo

2015-2016
Visiting researcher at the Şehir University, Istanbul

2014-2018
PHD at SOAS, University of London
Thesis title: ‘’Multiple paths to the holy: Continuity and Change in Bosnian Hajj literature’’ (supervisor Dr. Yorgos Dedes)

2008-2010
MA in Literary historical studies, University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Oriental Philology

2004-2008
BA University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Philosophy
Department of Oriental Philology and Department of English Language and Literature

 

Publications

Articles

A Sultan’s children: Bosnian Jews in two major newspapers of the Bosnian vilayat – ‘’Bosna’’ and ‘’Sarajevski cvjetnik’’, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Taylor & Francis, Volume 42, Issue 2 (2015): 147-162

Djelo ‘Dalīl al-sāʾirīn’ Imām-zāde Ḥasana al-Būsnawīja i fadạ̄ ʾilska literatura: tekstualni autoritet i sveti prostor (‘Dalil al-sa'irin’ of Imam-zade Hasan al-Busnawi and Fada'il Literature: Textual Authority and Holy Space), Prilozi za orijentalnu filologiju, Orijentalni institut u Sarajevu, (2015): 51-87.

Chapters

Bosnian Women on Hajj, Reconfiguring Muslim Pilgrimage through the lens of Women's Mobility (ed. Marjo Buitelaar, Viola Thimm and Manja Stephan-Emmrich), Routledge (forthcoming)

Online Bosniak hajj narratives, Muslim Pilgrimage in Europe, ed. Ingvild Flaskerud, Richard J. Natvig, Routledge, 2018, pp. 58-69.

The Many Faces of Cairo: Bosnian Muslims and their Re-imagination(s) of the Identitarian Centre, Muslims in the UK and Europe II (ed. Yasir Suleiman and Paul Anderson), Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 2016, pp. 159-168.

Encyclopedia Entries

''Women in Bosnia and Herzegovina'' for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, series editor John Esposito, editor-in-chief Natana J. DeLong-Bas (2013)

''Mustafa Cerić'' for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, series editor John Esposito, editor-in-chief Natana J. DeLong-Bas (2013)

''Afterlife'' for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, series editor John Esposito, editor-in-chief Natana J. DeLong-Bas (2013)

''Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries'' for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, series editor John Esposito, editor-in-chief Natana J. DeLong-Bas (2013)

''Devotional poetry'' for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, series editor John Esposito, editor-in-chief Natana J. DeLong-Bas (2013)

Selected book reviews

Meyda Yegenoglu, Islam, Migrancy, and Hospitality in Europe, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Journal of Muslims in Europe 2, 2013, pp. 83-84.

Ian Almond, The New Orientalists: Postmodern representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard. Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Brill, no 3, 2011.

Ian Almond, History of Islam in German Thought: From Leibniz to Nietzsche. Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Brill, no 3, 2011.

Ian Almond, Two Faiths, One Banner: When MUSLIMS Marched With CHRISTIANS Across Europe's Battlegrounds. Yearbook of Muslims in Europe, Brill, no 3, 2011.

The Cambridge Companion to Classical Islamic Theology, ed. Tim Winter, Prilozi za orijentalnu filologiju (Contributions to Oriental Philology), no. 59, Sarajevo, 2010, pp. 310-313

Paul L. Heck, Skepticism in Classical Islam: Moments of Confusion, Routledge, London and New York, 2014. Prilozi za orijentalnu filologiju, br. 64, 2015, pp. 546-549.

Rebecca R. Williams, Muhammad and the Supernatural: Medieval Arab Views, Routledge, London and New York, 2013. Prilozi za orijentalnu filologiju, no. 64, 2015, pp. 550-551.

Unity in Diversity: Mysticism, Messianism and the Construction of Religious Authority in Islam (ed. Orkhan Mir-Kasimov), Brill, Leiden-Boston, 2014. Prilozi za orijentalnu filologiju, no. 64, 2015, pp. 552-555.

Podcast

‘’Bosnian Comrades on Hajj’’
Ottoman History Podcast, Episode No. 406, Release Date: 17 March 2019