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About Stephan Kokew

I joined PIIT in October 2024. I studied Islamic Studies, Arabic Studies and Religious Studies (Religionswissenschaft) in Freiburg and Leipzig and completed my Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig on contemporary discourses of tolerance in the Islamic world. I am currently working on the modern Arabic reception of a classic work of Islamic theology. Furthermore, I am interested in the historical development and current re-evaluation of Islamic ethical concepts in the Qur'an and in Islamic intellectual history that relate to the coexistence of Muslims and non-Muslims.

If you have any questions or would like to arrange office hours, please feel free to contact me (stephan.kokew@uni-paderborn.de)

Curriculum Vitae

Since 01.10.2024: Research Associate at Paderborn Institute of Islamic Theology

2019 - 2024: Postdoc/Lecturer at the Centre for Islamic Theology, University of Münster

2014 - 2019: Research Associate at the Chair of Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

2014: PhD at Leipzig University

2010 - 2013: Fully Funded PhD Grant of the Graduate Academy Leipzig, Leipzig University

10/2009 - 12/2009: Research Assistant, Institute of Oriental Studies, Leipzig University

2008: Study Abroad in Damascus/Syria, followed by a 6-months Internship at the Bertelsmann Foundation Gütersloh

2007: Magister Artium (M. A.), Leipzig University

2001 - 2007: Islamic Studies, Arabic Studies and Religious Studies (Religionswissenschaft) at the Universities of Freiburg and Leipzig

19.12.2023: Al-Ghazālī in der Gegenwart. Salafitische Lesarten von Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm ad-dīn. ZIT-Forschungskolloquium. Zentrum für Islamische Theologie, Universität Münster.

21.09.2023: Zum Begriff ʿilm bei al-Ġazālī. Al-Ġazālī Workshop-Seminar "Wissen und Schmecken. Eine Einführung in zwei Grundkonzepte von al-Ġazālīs religiöser Epistemologie". Zentrum für Islamische Theologie, Universität Münster.

14.06.2023: Begriffsgeschichtliche Aspekte zu islamischen Toleranzkonzepten. Ringvorlesung "Begriffsgeschichten zentraler Termini der Islamischen Theologie". Institut für Islamische Theologie, Universität Osnabrück.

16.09.2022: Reviving the madhhab as-salaf. Observations on Jamāl ad-Dīn al-Qāsimīʼs Adaption of al-Ghazālīʼs Revival of the Sciences of Religion. 34. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Freie Universität Berlin.

17.09.2021: Integrating Sufism into the Salafiyya. Jamāl ad-Dīn al-Qāsimī's Adaption of Al-Ghazālī's Revival of the Sciences of Religion. 27th International DAVO Congress 2021, Universität Osnabrück.

30.01.2020: Al-Ghazālī in der Salafiyya. Zur Rezeption von Ihyāʼ ʻulūm ad-Dīn in der sunnitischen Moderne. Bayerisches Orientkolloquium, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.

2015: Nominated for the German Study Award 2015 of the Körber Foundation (Final round)

09/2005 - 10/2005: Fellowship for the Summer Course Program on Persian Language and Culture at the University of Teheran

Research

Research Interests

Conceptions of Tolerance and Pluralism in Islamic Contexts

Relations between Islam and Non-Muslims in Islamic History, Theology and Law

Modern Discourses on Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali´s "Ihya ulum ad-din" (20th/21st Century)

Publications

Selected Publications

Rezension zu Timo Güzelmansur/Tobias Specker/ChristianTrenk (Hrsg.): Glaube/Unglaube. Islamische und christliche Deutungen

S.M. Kokew, Apokalypse. Theologisch-praktische Quartalschrift 2/2024 2 (2024) 202–204.


Jamāl ad-Dīn al-Qāsimī

S.M. Kokew, in: G. Tamer (Ed.), Handbook of Qurʾānic Hermeneutics. Volume 4: Qurʾānic Hermeneutics in the 19th and 20th Century, Berlin/Boston, 2024, pp. 59–70.


Facetten von ḏimma. Altbekanntes und Neues

S.M. Kokew, Cibedo-Beiträge zum Gespräch zwischen Christen und Muslimen 1 (2024) 2–7.


‚Schutz‘, ‚Gewährenlassen‘, ‚Umgänglichkeit‘. Toleranzkonzeptionen in islamischen Kontexten

S.M. Kokew, in: D. Kiesel, C. Ferrari (Eds.), Toleranz, Frankfurt a. M., 2022, pp. 87–108.


Annäherung an Toleranz. Ausgangspunkte, Kontexte und zeitgenössische Interpretationen des Toleranzbegriffs aus dem schiitischen Islam

S.M. Kokew, Annäherung an Toleranz. Ausgangspunkte, Kontexte und zeitgenössische Interpretationen des Toleranzbegriffs aus dem schiitischen Islam, Würzburg, 2014.


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Teaching


Current Courses

  • Einführung in das Hadith und die Hadithwissenschaften

Scientific Engagement

Since 2016  |  Centre for Euro-Oriental Studies (CEOS) at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg


Since 2006  |  German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO)


Since 2006  |  Association for Arabic and Islamic Law (GAIR)

2016-2023 Member of the Executive Board