Birgit Krawietz

Birgit Krawietz is professor of Islamic Studies. She earned her PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Freiburg in 1990. From 1992 to 1998 she worked as a post-doctoral assistant at the Orientalische Seminar at the University of Tübingen. After having finished her habilitation with Professor Joseph van Ess about "Hierarchie der Rechtsquellen im tradierten sunnitischen Islam" she left for the United States to work as a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Later she continued as a Heisenberg fellow at the Islamic Studies Program at Harvard Law School and the Center for Middle East Studies of Harvard University.
After her return to Germany she continued as a research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Nikolassee near Berlin and taught as a visiting professor at the Free University of Berlin, the University of Zurich and the Ruhr University of Bochum. She now has tenure as a professor at the Institute of Islamic Studies and the Berlin Graduate School o f Muslim Cultures at the Free University of Berlin. Her areas of expertise cover Islamic law, Hanbali school of law, Salafism, body and culture, urbanism in Turkey and the Gulf.

Published works

• Islam and the rule of law: between Sharia and secularization. Sankt Augustin: Konrad Adenauer Foundation 2008.
• Hierarchie der Rechtsquellen im tradierten sunnitischen Islam. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2002.
• Die Hurma: schariatrechtlicher Schutz vor Eingriffen in die körperliche Unversehrtheit nach arabischen Fatwas des 20. Jahrhunderts. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1991.