Bettina Gräf, PhD (2009), Freie Universität Berlin, is lecturer for Islamic Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich. She has published on topics related to Arab Media and Cultural Studies, including Medien-Fawas@Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Die Popularisierung des Islamischen Rechts (2010).Birgit Krawietz, PhD (1990), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, is Professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. She has published on Islamic medical ethics, legal theory and sports in the Islamic world. Her overall research interests are normative Islam and cultural history.Schirin Amir-Moazami, PhD (2004) European University Institute, Florence in Social and Political Sciences, is Professor for Islam in Europe at the Institute of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. She has published on topics related to political secularism, governmentality and body politics in the field of Islam and Muslims in Europe. Her most recent edited volume Der inspizierte Muslim. Zur Politisierung der Islamforschung (2018) deals with the politics of knowledge production on Islam in Europe.

• Preface of the EditorsDale F. Eickelman: The Underneath of Academic Life: Gudrun Krämer and Islamic Studies Today1) Islamic Studies Inside OutAlexander Knysh: Between Europe and Asia: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Imperial RussiaReinhard Schulze: Kairo 1869 – Eine historische Collage2) Empires, Corporations, and NationsAhmed Ibrahim Abushouk: Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā’s Reformist Project to Establish a True Caliphate: Prospects and ChallengesJohann Büssow and Astrid Meier: Ottoman Corporatism, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries: Beyond the State-Society Paradigm in Middle Eastern HistoryElke Hartmann: Family Portraits: Visual Sources for a Social History of the Late Ottoman EmpireM. Sait Özervalı: The Position of Philosophy in the Late Ottoman Educational Reforms3) Islam, Ethics, and LanguagesMutaz al Khatib: The Emerging Field of Ethics in the Context of Modern EgyptAbdou Filali-Ansary: Pratique religieuse et comportement moralAbdulkader Tayob: Religion as Discourse: Conversion and Commitment to Jihād in South Africa4) Media Perspectives and Material ApproachesAlina Kokoschka: Reading between the Lines: Arabic Script, Islamic Calligraphy,and the Question of LegibilityMuhammad Qasim Zaman: Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi, his Successors, and the QurʾānBettina Gräf: From the Pocket Book to Facebook: Maktabat Wahba, Publishing, and Political Ideas in Cairo since the 1940sKai Kresse: Dimensions of “Giving Voice”: Discursive Agency and Intellectual Practice on Swahili Islamic Radio, in Mombasa 2005-20065) The Politics of Body and GenderBirgit Krawietz: On Coming to Grips with Turkish Oil Wrestling: Conceptualising Muscular Islam and Islamic Martial ArtsKatajun Amirpur: #ItsMensTurn: Of Hashtags and Shīʿī Discourses in IranBettina Dennerlein: Contested Genderscapes: Islamic Languages of Women’s Rights in the Arab Region6) Dominant Minorities and Dominant MajoritiesHamit Bozarslan: Domination, Resilience, and Power: Religious Minorities in the Imperial and Post-Imperial Middle EastDorothea Schulz: Carving Out a Space for Equal Political Citizenship? Muslim Politics of Remembrance in Uganda7) Arab Revolutions and Their Impact on Research about the Middle EastMuriel Asseburg: Understanding Transformation, Elite Change, and New Social Mobilisation in the Arab World: An Actor-Centred and Policy-Oriented Research ProjectCilja Harders: Understanding Politics in Egypt “From Below” 8) Muslims Inside OutSchirin Amir-Moazami: Recognition and Its Traps in Liberal Secular Conditions: The Case of Muslims in EuropeRuth Mas: The Refugee and the Dog

Bettina Gräf, PhD (2009), Freie Universität Berlin, is lecturer for Islamic Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich. She has published on topics related to Arab Media and Cultural Studies, including Medien-Fawas@Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Die Popularisierung des Islamischen Rechts (2010).Birgit Krawietz, PhD (1990), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, is Professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. She has published on Islamic medical ethics, legal theory and sports in the Islamic world. Her overall research interests are normative Islam and cultural history.Schirin Amir-Moazami, PhD (2004) European University Institute, Florence in Social and Political Sciences, is Professor for Islam in Europe at the Institute of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. She has published on topics related to political secularism, governmentality and body politics in the field of Islam and Muslims in Europe. Her most recent edited volume Der inspizierte Muslim. Zur Politisierung der Islamforschung (2018) deals with the politics of knowledge production on Islam in Europe.

• Preface of the EditorsDale F. Eickelman: The Underneath of Academic Life: Gudrun Krämer and Islamic Studies Today1) Islamic Studies Inside OutAlexander Knysh: Between Europe and Asia: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Imperial RussiaReinhard Schulze: Kairo 1869 – Eine historische Collage2) Empires, Corporations, and NationsAhmed Ibrahim Abushouk: Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā’s Reformist Project to Establish a True Caliphate: Prospects and ChallengesJohann Büssow and Astrid Meier: Ottoman Corporatism, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries: Beyond the State-Society Paradigm in Middle Eastern HistoryElke Hartmann: Family Portraits: Visual Sources for a Social History of the Late Ottoman EmpireM. Sait Özervalı: The Position of Philosophy in the Late Ottoman Educational Reforms3) Islam, Ethics, and LanguagesMutaz al Khatib: The Emerging Field of Ethics in the Context of Modern EgyptAbdou Filali-Ansary: Pratique religieuse et comportement moralAbdulkader Tayob: Religion as Discourse: Conversion and Commitment to Jihād in South Africa4) Media Perspectives and Material ApproachesAlina Kokoschka: Reading between the Lines: Arabic Script, Islamic Calligraphy,and the Question of LegibilityMuhammad Qasim Zaman: Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi, his Successors, and the QurʾānBettina Gräf: From the Pocket Book to Facebook: Maktabat Wahba, Publishing, and Political Ideas in Cairo since the 1940sKai Kresse: Dimensions of “Giving Voice”: Discursive Agency and Intellectual Practice on Swahili Islamic Radio, in Mombasa 2005-20065) The Politics of Body and GenderBirgit Krawietz: On Coming to Grips with Turkish Oil Wrestling: Conceptualising Muscular Islam and Islamic Martial ArtsKatajun Amirpur: #ItsMensTurn: Of Hashtags and Shīʿī Discourses in IranBettina Dennerlein: Contested Genderscapes: Islamic Languages of Women’s Rights in the Arab Region6) Dominant Minorities and Dominant MajoritiesHamit Bozarslan: Domination, Resilience, and Power: Religious Minorities in the Imperial and Post-Imperial Middle EastDorothea Schulz: Carving Out a Space for Equal Political Citizenship? Muslim Politics of Remembrance in Uganda7) Arab Revolutions and Their Impact on Research about the Middle EastMuriel Asseburg: Understanding Transformation, Elite Change, and New Social Mobilisation in the Arab World: An Actor-Centred and Policy-Oriented Research ProjectCilja Harders: Understanding Politics in Egypt “From Below” 8) Muslims Inside OutSchirin Amir-Moazami: Recognition and Its Traps in Liberal Secular Conditions: The Case of Muslims in EuropeRuth Mas: The Refugee and the Dog

Bettina Gräf, PhD (2009), Freie Universität Berlin, is lecturer for Islamic Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich. She has published on topics related to Arab Media and Cultural Studies, including Medien-Fawas@Yusuf al-Qaradawi. Die Popularisierung des Islamischen Rechts (2010).Birgit Krawietz, PhD (1990), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, is Professor of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. She has published on Islamic medical ethics, legal theory and sports in the Islamic world. Her overall research interests are normative Islam and cultural history.Schirin Amir-Moazami, PhD (2004) European University Institute, Florence in Social and Political Sciences, is Professor for Islam in Europe at the Institute of Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. She has published on topics related to political secularism, governmentality and body politics in the field of Islam and Muslims in Europe. Her most recent edited volume Der inspizierte Muslim. Zur Politisierung der Islamforschung (2018) deals with the politics of knowledge production on Islam in Europe.

• Preface of the EditorsDale F. Eickelman: The Underneath of Academic Life: Gudrun Krämer and Islamic Studies Today1) Islamic Studies Inside OutAlexander Knysh: Between Europe and Asia: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Imperial RussiaReinhard Schulze: Kairo 1869 – Eine historische Collage2) Empires, Corporations, and NationsAhmed Ibrahim Abushouk: Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā’s Reformist Project to Establish a True Caliphate: Prospects and ChallengesJohann Büssow and Astrid Meier: Ottoman Corporatism, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries: Beyond the State-Society Paradigm in Middle Eastern HistoryElke Hartmann: Family Portraits: Visual Sources for a Social History of the Late Ottoman EmpireM. Sait Özervalı: The Position of Philosophy in the Late Ottoman Educational Reforms3) Islam, Ethics, and LanguagesMutaz al Khatib: The Emerging Field of Ethics in the Context of Modern EgyptAbdou Filali-Ansary: Pratique religieuse et comportement moralAbdulkader Tayob: Religion as Discourse: Conversion and Commitment to Jihād in South Africa4) Media Perspectives and Material ApproachesAlina Kokoschka: Reading between the Lines: Arabic Script, Islamic Calligraphy,and the Question of LegibilityMuhammad Qasim Zaman: Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi, his Successors, and the QurʾānBettina Gräf: From the Pocket Book to Facebook: Maktabat Wahba, Publishing, and Political Ideas in Cairo since the 1940sKai Kresse: Dimensions of “Giving Voice”: Discursive Agency and Intellectual Practice on Swahili Islamic Radio, in Mombasa 2005-20065) The Politics of Body and GenderBirgit Krawietz: On Coming to Grips with Turkish Oil Wrestling: Conceptualising Muscular Islam and Islamic Martial ArtsKatajun Amirpur: #ItsMensTurn: Of Hashtags and Shīʿī Discourses in IranBettina Dennerlein: Contested Genderscapes: Islamic Languages of Women’s Rights in the Arab Region6) Dominant Minorities and Dominant MajoritiesHamit Bozarslan: Domination, Resilience, and Power: Religious Minorities in the Imperial and Post-Imperial Middle EastDorothea Schulz: Carving Out a Space for Equal Political Citizenship? Muslim Politics of Remembrance in Uganda7) Arab Revolutions and Their Impact on Research about the Middle EastMuriel Asseburg: Understanding Transformation, Elite Change, and New Social Mobilisation in the Arab World: An Actor-Centred and Policy-Oriented Research ProjectCilja Harders: Understanding Politics in Egypt “From Below” 8) Muslims Inside OutSchirin Amir-Moazami: Recognition and Its Traps in Liberal Secular Conditions: The Case of Muslims in EuropeRuth Mas: The Refugee and the Dog