Judith Pfeiffer

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Judith Pfeiffer (* 1964 ) is a German scholar of Islam .

Pfeiffer studied from 1983 to 1992 in Cologne (in addition to Oriental and Islamic Studies, German and Romance studies ) and from 1994 at the University of Chicago , where she received her doctorate in 2003 after a stay from 1998 to 2000 at the German Orient Institute in Istanbul . She went to Oxford University (St. Cross College) in 2003 , where she became a lecturer and associate professor of Arabic and Islamic history. In 2016 she took up a Humboldt Professorship at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn .

It deals with the history of the Mongols and the Mongolian empires from the 13th to the 16th century, their intellectual history and in particular their conversion to Islam and the consequences this had for the Islamic world.

She received an ERC Starting Grant and a research grant from the City of Paris for the CNRS . She was also at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (USA).

Fonts (selection)

  • Editor with SA Quinn: History and Historiography of Post-Mongol Central Asia and the Middle East. Studies in Honor of John E. Woods. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2006.
  • Editor with A. Neuwirth, M. Hess and B. Sagaster: Ghazal as World Literature II. From a Literary Genre to a Great Tradition. The Ottoman Gazel in Context. Würzburg 2006.
  • Reflections on a 'Double Rapprochement': Conversion to Islam among the Mongol Elite during the Early Ilkhanate, in: L. Komaroff (ed.), Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan. Leiden 2006, pp. 369-389.
  • Editor with Manfred Kropp: Theoretical Approaches to the Transmission and Edition of Oriental Manuscripts. Proceedings of a symposium held in Istanbul, March 28 - 30, 2001, Würzburg: Ergon Verlag 2007.
  • Confessional Polarization in the 17th Century Ottoman Empire and Yūsuf İbn Ebī 'Abdü'd-Deyyān's Keşfü'l-esrār fī ilzāmi'l-Yehūd ve el-aḥbār, in: C. Adang, S. Schmidtke (Ed.), Contacts and Controversies between Muslims, Jews and Christians in the Ottoman Empire and Pre-Modern Iran. Würzburg 2010, pp. 15-55.
  • Protecting private property vs. Negotiating Political Authority: Nur al-Din b. Jaja and His Endowments in Thirteenth Century Anatolia, in: R. Hillenbrand, ACS Peacock, F. Abdullaeva (Eds.), Ferdowsi, the Mongols and the History of Iran: Art, Literature and Culture from Early Islam to Qajar Persia. London 2013, pp. 147-165.
  • The Canonization of Cultural Memory: Ghāzān Khān, Rashīd al-Dīn, and the Construction of the Mongol Past, in: A. Akasoy, C. Burnett, R. Yoeli-Tlalim (eds.), Rashīd al-Dīn. Agent and Mediator of Cultural Exchanges in Ilkhanid Iran. London 2013, pp. 57-70.
  • Confessional Ambiguity vs. Confessional Polarization: Politics and the Negotiation of Religious Boundaries in the Ilkhanate, in: J. Pfeiffer (Ed.), Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th-15th Century Tabriz. Leiden 2014, pp. 129–168.
  • as editor: Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th – 15th Century Tabriz. Leiden 2014.
  • Rashīd al-Dīn. Bayān al-Ḥaqāʾiq. Introduction and Indices by Judith Pfeiffer. Istanbul 2016.

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SURNAME Pfeiffer, Judith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German scholar of Islam
DATE OF BIRTH 1964