Curriculum Vitae
Education
2014–2022
Doctoral Candidate, Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Leipzig and Department 'Law & Anthropology', Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale)
2017–2025
“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
2014–2022
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
- ITS Research Colloquium Medizinethik und Islam im deutschsprachigen Raum, Erlangen, 4 September 2026
- Conference Perspectives on the Development of Islamic Law: Philosophy of Law & Islamic Medical Ethics [with Serdar Kurnaz] in collaboration with the Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht (Arabic and Islamic Law Association), Berlin, 8–9 November 2024
- 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 PhD 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
2025
Trauer- und Bestattungskulturen weltweit, Evangelische Luther-Auferstehungsgemeinde Stralsund, 10 Ocotber 2025
2025
Classical fiqh Principles and Their Practical Significance in End-of-Life Decisions at the Beginning of Life – A Case Study, Workshop Islamic Jurisprudence and Contemporary Ethics, University of Exeter, 7 July 2025
2025
Krankheit, Tod und Sterben im Islam, Ethics conference, Alexianer, 27 January 2025
2024
Environmental Ethics According to Qur ʾān and Sunna, Meeting with an Indonesian Delegation about Sustainability & Islam: Religious Principles & Practical Implementation, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 18 November 2024
2024
(Grenz)Werte? Islamisch geprägte Positionen zu pränatalem Leben und Tod, Conference Dem (scheinbar) Unsichtbaren Sichtbarkeit geben, Hope’s Angel, 3 October 2024
2024
Islamische Theologie & Wissenschaftskommunikation – Mehr Herausforderung als Chance?, Conference Wisskomm Connected – Forschung und Praxis der Wissenschaftskommunikation gemeinsam gestalten!, Transfer Unit Wissenschaftskommunikation, 12 September 2024
2023
Das Gesundheitsverständnis im Islam, Initiative Mediation und Gesundheit (IMUG), 14 November 2023
2022
Wenn am Anfang des Lebens das Ende steht, German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation, 13 September 2022
2021
The Islamic Headscarf and Beyond: Negotiation Processes of Muslim Women in Germany, European Judicial Training Cultural and Religious Diversity in the Courtroom: Judges in Europe Facing New Challenges, European Judicial Training Network, 18 November 2021
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 March 2021.
2017
Daily practical life and and Islamic normativity with due regard to gender ǧihād, Department Meeting, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 21 December 2017.
2017
Alltagspragmatische Lebenswelten und islamische Normativität im Kontext des gender ǧihād, Drittes Orientwissenschaftliches Dreiländerkolloquium, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 17 November 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, 6 June 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, 7 November 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 October 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 June 2011.
Editorial Activities
since 2025
Book Series Islam und Medizinethik | Islam and Medical Ethics (IME) [with Hadil Lababidi], Baden-Baden: Georg Olms.
since 2021
Zeitschrift für Medizin, Ethik und Islam / Journal of Law, Ethics and Islam (ZMEI) [with Hadil Lababidi].
since 2012
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
2019–2026
Member of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft (DMG), section of Islamic Studies
since 2019
Member of the Arabic and Islamic Law Association (GAIR) working group “Islamic Finance”
2018–2022
Member of the GAIR working group “Junges Netzwerk Recht & Islam”
2013–2022
Member of the Board of Trustees of the Arabic and Islamic Law Association (Gesellschaft für Arabisches und Islamisches Recht)
2003–2025
Member of the German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient, DAVO)