Publications

Nieber, Hanna. 2024. Authority with textual materials: power of the written qur’an. Material Religion. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/17432200.2024.2303905.

Nieber, Hanna. 2019. Islamic Zanzibar: between the Indian ocean and the African mainland. Journal of Africana Religions 7(1): 131–137. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5325/jafrireli.7.1.0131.

Nieber, Hanna. 2017. 'They all just want to get healthy!' Drinking the Qur'an between forming religious and medical subjectivities in Zanzibar. Journal of Material Culture 22(4): 453–475. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183517729427.

Nieber, Hanna. 2014. Gezeiten, Geister und Gemeinschaft: der Indische Ozean als muslimisch geprägter Raum - ein Essay. Zenith 3: 76–77.

Nieber, Hanna. 2024. Inexpressible reading: the efficacious non-discursivity of drinking the Qur'an. In: Urmila Mohan (ed.). The efficacy of intimacy and belief in worldmaking practices. New York: Routledge, pp. 27–41.

Nieber, Hanna. 2020. Drinking the written Qurʼan: healing with Kombe in Zanzibar town. PhD Thesis, Utrecht University, Utrecht.

Nieber, Hanna. 2023. Dippel, Anne und Martin Warnke: Tiefen der Täuschung: Computersimulation und Wirklichkeitserzeugung. 173 S. Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, 2022. Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology 148(2): 344–347. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60827/zfe/jsca.v148i2.1323.

Nieber, Hanna. 2021. Hans Olsson, Jesus for Zanzibar: pentecostal narratives of (non)belonging, Islam and nation (Leiden, Brill, 2019) xvi + 291 pp. Exchange 50(1): 104–105. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/1572543X-12341589.

Nieber, Hanna. 2021. About ingestion: drinking the Qur'an, Annemarie Mol's "Eating in theory," and fusion cooking as method. Religious Matters. https://religiousmatters.nl/about-ingestion-drinking-the-quran-annemarie-mols-eating-in-theory-and-fusion-cooking-as-method/.

Nieber, Hanna. 2021. Astronomy in Africa. Interview by Stefan Schwendtner and Carlo Diesterbeck-Roll. Spot On. Halle/Saale: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. https://www.eth.mpg.de/en/spot-on/hanna-nieber-astronomy-in-africa.