Academic Work
2011 |
Weekly Colloquium, Istanbul Kemerburgaz University, Istanbul, Turkey
Presentation title: “Islam in South Asia: Its Spread and Cultural Impact”
| 2011 |
International Conference on Materiality, Memory and Cultural Heritage, Istanbul, Turkey
Paper title: “Completely Different Matters: On the Materiality and the Symbolism of the Tomb in a Sant Lineage”
| 2011 |
Philosophy and Religion Colloquium, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India
Paper title: “Between Sufism, Yoga, and Modern Hinduism: The Poetry of the Bāvarī panth”
| 2010 |
21st European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Bonn, Germany
Paper title: “(Nirgun) bhakti and Ritual Practice: Thoughts on the History of the Bāvarī panth”
| 2010 |
21st European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Bonn, Germany
Paper title: “The Quest for Self-Transformation and the Social Self in Indic Sufi Poetry: Courtly Hindavī Romances and Popular Braj Poems”
| 2008 |
Biannual Hindi-Urdu Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Selected translations of Josh Malīhābādī
| 2007 |
M.A. Thesis: “A Critical Reinterpretation of Islamic Law: the Role of Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi’s fatawa in India’s Islamic Public Sphere”
Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
| 2007 |
Biannual Hindi-Urdu Workshop, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Selected translations of Khwājah Mīr Dard
| 2005 |
Typesetting: Hüsken, U. & J. Gengnagel & S. Raman (eds.). 2005. Words and Deeds. Hindu and Buddhist Rituals in South Asia. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
| 2004 |
29. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Halle, Germany
Paper title: “Sufi Influences on Kabir?––A Semiotic Approach to His Soteriology” [orig. in German]
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