Curriculum Vitae

Education

2014 - present
Doctoral Candidate, Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig and Department 'Law & Anthropology', Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale

Since 2017: "Daily practical life and Islamic normativity with due regard to gender ǧihād"

2014 - 2015: Initial doctoral research project '"Yemeni Conditions' in Law? Islamic Law, Customary Law, and Western Law in Conflict"

2010
Magistra Artium (MA) in Arabic and Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig
Thesis: Customary Law in Indonesia with Particular Consideration of the Legal Development on Sumatra

2009
Magistra Artium (MA) in Educational Sciences, University of Leipzig

Professional Activities / Teaching

2021/2022
Lecturer: Lebensanfang und Lebensende im islamwissenschaftlichen Diskurs. Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig

2021
Lecturer: The Islamic Headscarf and Beyond: Negotiation Processes of Muslim Women in Germany. European Judicial Training Network, Barcelona

2021
Lecturer: Ethisch-normative Betrachtungen auf Schwangerschaftsabbrüche im Islam. Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig

2015 - 2016
Parental leave

2014 - present
Doctoral Candidate, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Department of Law and Anthropology and Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig

2011 - 2013
Scholarship in the graduate school "Säkularitäten: Konfigurationen und Entwicklungspfade" (spokesperson 2011-2013)

2010 - 2014
Research assistant, Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig

2006 - 2010
Student assistant, Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig; student assistant in the Oriental Studies' branch of the University Library; acting administrator of the Arabic and Oriental Studies' section, University of Leipzig Library (2009–2010)

2006 - 2008
Chairperson of the student representative body 'Fachschaftsrat für Afrikanistik', University of Leipzig

2006 - 2007
Internship in the Near and Middle East Department, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Bonn

2004 - 2010
Student assistant, Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig

2003 - 2006
Student representative of the student representative body 'Fachschaftsrat für Afrikanistik und Orientalistik (FaRAO)', University of Leipzig

Organization of Conferences and Workshops

Islam, Law, and Anthropology: Joint Conference of the Max Planck Institute, Department 'Law & Anthropology' in collaboration with the Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht (Arabic and Islamic Law Association) und RIMO (Vereniging tot bestudering van het recht van de Islam en het Midden Oosten), Halle/Saale, 9-10 November 2018.

Muslimische Alltagspragmatik und islamische Normativität in Deutschland: Workshop in Cooperation with the Institute of Oriental Studies at University of Leipzig, Halle/Saale, 23 October 2017.

Weltvorstellungen im Widerstreit? Spannungsfelder zwischen säkularen und religiösen Überzeugungen: Conference of the Ph.D. programme "Secularities: Configurations and Developmental Paths", Leipzig, 27-28 September 2013.

Legal Transfer in, out of and within the Arabic World / Rechtstransfer in die, aus der und innerhalb der arabischen Welt: Annual Conference of the Arabic and Islamic Law Association, Leipzig, 15-16 October 2010.

Presentations at Conferences and Workshops

2021
Gender (and) equality through the eyes of Muslim women: Experiences from ethnographic fieldwork in Western and Eastern Germany, Workshop "Sharia in Context", Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 19.03.2021.

2017
Daily practical life and and Islamic normativity with due regard to gender ǧihād, Department Meeting, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 21.12.2017.

2017
Alltagspragmatische Lebenswelten und islamische Normativität im Kontext des gender ǧihād, Drittes Orientwissenschaftliches Dreiländerkolloquium, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 17.11.2017.

2012
Jemen vor dem Neubeginn? Traum und Wirklichkeit eines Landes im Umbruch, Bachelor of Arts colloquium "Ausgewählte Probleme der MENA-Region", Institute of Oriental Studies Leipzig, 06.06.2012.

2011
Handels und Investitionsaktivitäten im Jemen: Möglichkeiten und Handlungsbedingungen im Lichte der aktuellen Gesetzgebung, Master of Arts seminar „Die staatlich-rechtliche Entwicklung in der arabischen Welt 2011: Bilanz und Ausblick“, Institute of Oriental Studies Leipzig, 07.11.2011.

2011
Moderation of the lecture "Rechtliche Veränderungen und Perspektiven nach dem 'arabischen Frühling'" (Referent: Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Ebert) in the frame of the lecture series "UmBrüche in der arabisch-islamischen Welt. Frühling oder Eiszeit?", University Leipzig, 26.10.2011.

2011
Die Entwicklung des jemenitischen Familienrechts: dargestellt am Beispiel des südjemenitischen Familiengesetzes und des gesamtjemenitischen Personalstatuts, Bachelor of Arts Kolloquium "Ausgewählte Probleme der MENA-Region", Institute of Oriental Studies Leipzig, 29.06.2011.

Editorial Activities

2012 - present
Managing editor of the Journal Zeitschrift für Recht und Islam / Journal of Law and Islam, Leipzig

Editing of

Ebert, Hans-Georg / Heilen, Julia: Islamisches Recht: ein Lehrbuch, Leipzig 2016.
Klemm, Verena / al-Shaʿar, Nuha (Hgg.): Proceedings of the 24th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants (UEAI), Leuven (u.a.) 2013.
Biesterfeldt, Hinrich / Klemm, Verena (Hgg.): Differenz und Dynamik im Islam. Festschrift für Heinz Halm zum 70. Geburtstag. = Difference and Dynamism in Islam: Festschrift for Heinz Halm on his 70th Birthday, Würzburg 2012.
Heckel, Martin (Hg.): Rechtstransfer (Leipziger Beiträge zur Orientforschung 29), Frankfurt a.M. (u.a.) 2011.

Memberships in Academic Associations

2019 - present
Member of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG), section of Islamic Studies

2019 - present
Member of the Zentrum für Extremismusprävention (Centre for the Prevention of Extremism)

2019 - present

Member of the Arabic and Islamic Law Association (GAIR) working group "Islamic Finance"

2018 - present
Founding member of the GAIR working group "Junges Netzwerk Recht & Islam"

2013 - present
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Arabic and Islamic Law Association (Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht)

2003 - present
Member of the German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient, DAVO)