Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

Former Visiting Researchers and Scholars

Dr. Muhammad Ali Dinakhel

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Dr. Dinakhel is a DAAD scholarship holder from June to August 2022 as a guest researcher at the Central Asia Seminar at the Humboldt University in Berlin. He has also remained a visiting researcher in 2016 and 2019 in the department of Central Asian Studies, Humboldt University Berlin. He is PhD in Pakistani Languages and Literature with Specialization in Pashto Language and Literature. He has published three articles on the Pashto manuscripts housed in State Library Berlin Germany. He has edited and published one of these manuscripts titled as “Majma’ ul ash’ar”in 2021. He has published another book titled “Da Swat Pashto Adab aw Saqafat” (Pashto Literature and Culture of Swat) in 2020 published by Academy of Sciences Kabul, Afghanistan. He has also translated a book on genealogical study of Pashtuns into Pashto, published in 2022. His research interest areas include Pashto language, literature, linguistics, Pashtun culture, Central Asian literature and Area Studies (Central Asia).

 

Current research projects:

 

He conducted a short-term postdoctoral project titled „Linguistic and Cultural Analysis of Pashto Sound Recordings in Lautarchiv of the Humboldt University Berlin". There are seventeen different Pashto sound recordings recorded from Pashtun soldiers being POW during WWI. These sound recordings will be transcribed, translated into English and will be written in standard Pashto text. Linguistic, cultural and historical aspects of these sound recordings will be explored and analysed. He presented a part of his ongoing research project in HIP workshop organized by department of South Asian Studies, Humboldt University Berlin on 15th July 2022.

 

Past research projects:

 

  • 2019: "An Analysis of Literary, Linguistic, Cultural and Religious Aspects  of Pashto Manuscripts in the State Library Berlin"

This project of Dr. Muhammad Ali Dinakhel, was funded by DAAD under its programme “Research Stays for University Academics and Scientists 2019. As a Research Fellow at Humboldt University Berlin, he completed his research project titled “An Analysis of Literary, Linguistic, Cultural and Religious Aspects of Pashto Manuscripts in the State Library Berlin, Germany” from June to August 2019 at the Department of Central Asian Studies. He has already published two articles about Pashto manuscripts in the State Library Berlin Germany. In this project he analysed literary, linguistic, cultural and religious aspects of ten rare and valuable Pashto manuscripts housed in State Library Berlin. One of these manuscripts titled ‘Majma’al ash’ar was introduced by him for the first time to the circle of Pashto literature.

  • 2016: "Cultural and Civilizational Study of the Pashto Literature of Swat”

For my research stay at Humboldt University Berlin, I was financially supported by the Higher Education Commission Pakistan under its programme “International Research Support Initiative Programme”. I conduct my research in Humboldt University Berlin under the supervision of Dr. Lutz Rzehak. My focus is on Pashto language, linguistics, literature and culture. I presented a part of my ongoing research project in a seminar on 25th April 2016 at the Department of Central Asian Studies. I spoke on the topic of “Reflection of Militancy and Talibanization in the Pashto Poetry of Swat”. The lecture was followed by productive discussion and questions answers session. I found some rare and valuable Pashto manuscripts in the State Library Berlin. On the recommendation of my supervisor, I also visited British Library London for about ten days to get acquainted with the Pashto manuscripts related to my research project. I was very interested to get in contact with other scholarly institutions in Berlin. I joined several lectures and seminars at different institutions. I also gave one more presentation on the “Concept of Peace in Pashtun Culture” in the workshop of Humboldt India Project in the department of South Asian Studies of the Humboldt University Berlin.

 


 

Dr. Bahodir Nurmetovich Karimow

From October to November 2017 Dr. Karimow was on a scholarship of the DAAD and visiting scholar at the Central Asia Seminar of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

 

Dr. Karimov works at the Tashkent State University for Uzbek Language and Literature, named after Alisher Navoi. He is the author of more than 200 scientific and pedagogical-methodical works. His books include:      

  • "Jadid munaqqidi Vadud Mahmud" (1999)     
  • "Qodiriy Qadri" (2003)     
  • "Yangilanish sog'inchi" (2004)     
  • "Abdulla Qodiriy: tanqid, tahlil va talqin" (2006)  
  • "Adabiyotshunoslik metodologiyasi" (2012)     
  • "Abdulla Qodiriy va germenevtik tafakkur" (2014)     
  • "Qodiriy nasri - nafosat qasri" (2014)     
  • "Ruhiyat alifbosi" (2016)

 

 


 

Dr. Michal Zelcer-Lavid

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Dr. Michal Zelcer-Lavid

Dr. Zelcer-Lavid was a postdoc researcher at the Central Asian Seminar of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from September 2016 to September 2017. She is also a lecturer at the Multidisciplinary B.A. Program (Liberal Arts) in Bar-Ilan University and Sapir Academic College in Israel.

 

Current research projects:

Her research focuses on nationalism and ethnic identity in Tibetan and Uyghur literature in China. Broader research interests are ethnic conflicts in Asia, ethnicity, culture and politics in contemporary central Asia and China.       

 

Curriculum Vitae: 

Dr. Zelcer Lavid has a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Haifa; B.A in Anthropology, Sociology and in East Asian Studies with excellence from Tel-Aviv University. She studied Chinese (Mandarin) both in Israel and in China at the Beijing Language and Culture University (Spr. semester, 2001) and Yunnan University (intensive course, 2004). She was awarded grants from both the Hebrew University (2002) and Haifa University (2004) for excellence in academic achievements. In 2010 she was named outstanding junior professor of Bar Ilan University.

 

 


Dr. Zaynabidin Abdirashidov

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Dr. Zaynabidin Abdirashidov

Dr. Zaynabidin Abdirashidov was a DAAD alumnus at the Central Asian Seminar of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (July 2017- September 2017). His research,the birth of liberal-reformist movement in early 20th century Bukhara, was supported by the DAAD: He was focusing on ‘Abd al-Ra’ūf Fiṭrat’s conviction and his early journalistic works in Turkey.

 

Fields of research:  
  • Late 19th and the beginning of 20th centuries Turkestan and early soviet Uzbekistan history
  • Intellectual history and the development of postcolonial thought and intellectual change in Turkestan
  • Westernization or Modernization or …? Abd al-Ra’ūf Fiṭrat and Emergence of Young Bukharan Movement

 

 

 

Prof. Dr. Aftandil Erkinov

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Prof. Dr. Aftandil Erkinov

Prof. Dr. Aftandil Erkinov was a DAAD scholarship holder at the Central Asian Seminar of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin from June to July 2017. In his DAAD supported research he focuses on comparisons of the cultural environment of Khivian khan`s period Muhammad Rahim-khan II (19th – early 20th C.) with later cultures of the region.

 

 

Fields of research: 
  • History of  Turkic and Persian literature in Central Asia (15th – beg. 20th century)
  • History of the intellectual life in Central Asia (15th – 20th century)   
  • Transmission of manuscripts in Central Asia (15th – 20th century) 
  • Culture of the Muslim Palaces of Centrals Asia
  • Muslim society and Islam of Central Asia under Russian Empire (1865–1917)

 

 

Current research projects:  
  • History of the intellectual life in Central Asia (19th – 20th century)  
  • Culture of the Muslim Palaces of Centrals Asia (15th – beg. 20th  century).    
  • The Muslim women of Central Asia in the 20th century.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Tsypylma Darieva
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Dr. Tsypylma Darieva is  lecturer and visiting researcher at the Central Asia Seminar from October 2016 to July 2017. She is an associate member of the Institute of Slavic Studies and Caucasus Studies at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena. Her current Project "Transformation of urban spaces as representations of power in the Caucasus and Central Asia" is financed by the Zentrum für Osteuropa und internationale Studien Berlin (ZOIS).

 

Research areas and ongoing research projects:
  • Anthropology of migration, diaspora, post-socialist urbanity, sacred sites, religious pluralism, South Caucasus, Central Eurasia
  • Project Development: "Transformation of Urban Spaces as Stages of Regional Power: Caucasus and Central Asia in Comparison", in cooperation with the Zentrum für Osteuropa und internationale Studien Berlin (ZOIS)

 


Dr. Saida Daukeyeva

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Dr. Daukeyeva was Research Fellow (HERMES) at the Central Asian Seminar of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (April 2015- July 2017). Her research, supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, explores the intersection of music with political, social and cultural geographies in Central Asia, focusing on the musical construction of place and borders among the Kazakh diaspora in western Mongolia and returning migrants in Kazakhstan.

 
Fields of research:
  • Ethnomusicology and Historical Musicology of Central Asia and the Middle East
  • Music Culture of Kazakhstan and the Kazakhs of Mongolia
  • Medieval Arabic Writings on Music
 
Research projects:
  • Musical Geographies of Central Asia: Sounding Place and Borders
  • Dombyra Performance, Migration and Memory among Mongolian Kazakhs
  • Kazakh Qobyz Performance
  • Funeral and Commemorative Rituals among Kazakhs in Mongolia and Kazakhstan

 

 

 

M.A. Qahramon Yakubov
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Mr. Yakubov is a PhD student at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan, Tashkent and was visiting scholar at Central Asian Seminar of Humboldt University for three months (March - June, 2017). His project Waqf Administration in the Khiva Khanate: Legal and Social Perspectives is supported by the Gerda Henkel Stiftung.

 

 

Areas of Research:
  • History of Waqf in Khorezm
  • Social History of Central Asia in Modern Period
  • Islamic Law and Comparative Jurisprudence
  • Land Tenure and Agrarian Relations in Modern Islamic Principalities

 

Research projects:
  • Waqf Administration in the Khiva Khanate: Legal and Social Perspectives (In the late of 19th and the Beginning of 20th Centuries). Prof. Devin DeWeese, Gerda Henkel Stiftung Project, 2014 – 2017
  • The Archives Talk: Writing the Social History of Colonial Central Asia. Prof. Jürgen Paul, Volkswagen Stiftung Project, 2010 – 2013

 

 


Dr. Askar Djumashev
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Dr. Askar Djumashev

From October to the end of December 2016 Dr. Djumashev received a scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and was visiting researcher at the Central Asia Seminar.

Bevor that, he was guest at the Central Asian Seminar from July 2009 until the end of March 2011 as a scholar of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation as well as from September until the end of November 2003. From April to the end of June 2004 he received a DAAD scholarship and was also visiting researcher the Central Asia Seminar.
 

Research projects:
  • «NATIONALITY POLICY IN THE SOVIET UNION: THE CASE OF KARAKALPAKSTAN, 1924 - 1941» (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, 2009-2011)

 

  • "The Political Elite of Karakalpakstan (1924-1941): History, Methods and Research Methodology" (Gerda Henkel Foundation, 2005-2006)

 

 


 

Dr. Bakhrom Khujanov

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From September 2015 to July 2016 Dr. Bakhrom was working as a visiting researcher at the Central Asian Seminar of Humboldt University in Berlin. His scientific research and promotion was financed by a postdoctoral fellowship from Erasmus Mundus.

From April to May 2012, he was already once guest at our Institute. In 2007 he worked as a visiting researcher at the Department of Anthropology at the FU-Berlin.

 

Working title of Dissertation:

 
"Markaziy Osiyo mintaqasidagi Milliy-etnik munosabatlarning geosiyosiy jihatlari" ( "The geopolitical aspects of ethnic- and national relations in the region of Central Asia").


Fields of teaching and research:

  •     The identity issues in Central Asia
  •     Geopolitical processes in the Central Asian region
  •     Minority issues in the countries of the Central Asia Region
  •     National-ethnic migration within Central Asia
  •     International Relations in East
  •     Ethnology and its theoretical foundations

 

 


 
Dr. Olaf Günther

Olaf Günther was Crossroads Asia Research Fellow from September to November 2015. His research focus was on regions of Central- and Inner Asia. His interest is mainly the interaction between humans and the environment in remote areas and their transcendence at the periphery of modernity.

 
Research projects:
 
Completed research projects:
  • 2004 - 2008 SFB 640 "Representation of changing social order," Socialist campaigns in Central Asia. A comparative, actor-centered study on representation of "purity"
  • 2008 - 2015 Gypsy cultures in Central Asia.
Olaf Günther

further information on Olaf Günther

 


 
M.A. Kishimjan Osmonova

 

Kishimjan Osmonova war Stipendiatin des Deutschen Akademischen Austausch Dienstes am Zentralasien-Seminar (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)


Forschungsprojekt:
Astana: Through the Eyes of Migrants


 


M.A. Emilia Róża Sułek

 

Fields of Teaching and Research:
  • Pastoral Societies in Tibet
  • Economic Anthropology
  • Modern History (and Oral History) in Tibet
  • Anthropology of Politics
  • Research Methods in Anthropology

Research Projects:
  • Trading Medicinal Herbs in Golok, Eastern Tibet. Socio-economic Networks and Change among Pastoralists during the Post-Mao Era (Ph.D. Research Project)

 

Emilia Róża Sułek

 


 

Dr. Barbara Gerke

 

Fields of Teaching and Research:
  • Tibetan cultures in Himalayan areas
  • Tibetan identity in India
  • Asian Medical Systems
  • Tibetan medicine in Indian exile and in the biomedical context
  • Socio-culturally shaped notions of aging, vitality and toxicity in Tibetan medicine
  • Fieldwork Methods

 

Research Projects:

 

 

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Dr. Elisa Cencetti
Fields of teaching and research:
  • Pastoral societies of Amdo-Qinghai
  • Tibetan socio-political organization
  • Political anthropology
  • Micro-history and oral history of Amdo-Qinghai
  • Political legitimacy and Sino-Tibetan relationships in Amdo-Qinghai
  • Ethnology and ethnological methods
Research projects:
  • The process of power legitimization: local powers and the making of the state on the Tibetan grasslands of Amdo-Qinghai (PRC)
  • Herders without livestock: the new nomads of socialist market economy in Amdo-Qinghai (PRC)

 

Ayfer Durdu, M.A.

 

Activities

 

Publications

  • Durdu, Ayfer (2008): Toshqins Begegnung mit dem Dichter Kamiy“, in: Über Gereimtes und Ungereimtes diesseits und jenseits der Turcia, Ost-West-Diskurse 7, Schöneiche/Berlin.
  • Durdu, Ayfer (2006): Gott ist überall und nirgends. Die Sendungen aus dem Umfeld des Omar-Zentrums im Offenen Kanal Berlin. In: A. Bentzin u.a.(Hrsg.): Islam auf Sendung. Islamische Fernsehsendungen im Offenen Kanal. Berlin.

Ayfer Durdu was a researcher in the Crossroads Asia Network.

You can view her complete profile here.

 

Dr. Timothy Nunan


From September 2014 until September 2015, Dr. Nunan was visiting scholar at the Central Asian Seminar of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. With the support of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, he conducted research and pursued advanced language training for his second book project on transnational history of the Soviet Union and its southern neighbors (Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan) during the interwar period.

 

Fields of teaching and research:
  • History of the Soviet Union and Russia
  • Modern History: Afghanistan, Iran, Central Asia
  • History of Development and Humanitarianism
  • International and Global History
 

Timothy Nunan's blog

 

Timothy Nunan

Dr. Jarmila Ptackova

 

From October 2013 to March 2015 Dr. Ptackova was associate and lecturer at the Central Asian Seminar at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

 

Fields of teaching and research:
  • Implementation of the Chinese development policy in Tibet

  • Environment and lifestyle changes of nomadic communities in Eastern Tibet under the impact of modernization

  • Impact of China's environmental policy on the Tibetan grassland and its inhabitants

  • Transformation and urbanization of rural areas in Eastern Tibet

  • History of Sino-Tibetan relations


Topic of research project:
"Nature versus Economy" -Transformation and urbanization of Tibetan grassland areas in the environmental protection zone of the Three River Sources in Qinghai Province
 
Jarmila Ptackova

 


 

Prof. Mohammad Saleh Rasekh


From January to March 2015 Prof. M. Saleh Rasekh receives a scholarship from the Erasmus Mundus project. During this time at the Central Asian Seminar, he is completing his dissertation on Turkmen dialects in northern Afghanistan.
From September 2011 to July 2014 Prof. Rasekh also stayed at the Institute as Fellow of the Erasmus Mundus program.

 

Teaching:
  • SoSe 2013 "Fundamentals of Persian poetry"
  • WiSe 13/14 "Persian literary history"
  • SoSe 2014 "Sa'di - Gulistan"
  • WiSe 14/15 "Press in Afghanistan by the example of the journal Siraj ul-Akhbar"
Lecture:
  • 2012 "Makhdumquli-ye Faraghi" (Cologne)
  • 2013 "Makhdumquli-ye Faraghi in Afghanistan" (Cologne)
  • 201 "Vizhagiha-ye ash'or-e Makhdumquli" (Berlin)
  • 2014 "Tasawwuf dar adabiyat-e turki" (Berlin)

Topic of research project:
Turkmen dialects in northern Afghanistan.
Mohammad Saleh Rasekh

 


 

Dipl.-Geogr. Christoph Wenzel


Since March 2011, Christoph Wenzel was a research assistant at the Central Asian Seminar at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Until the end of 2014 he was staff member of the Competence Network Crossroads Asia.

Topic of research project:
City as a place of refuge: Mobility and migration of young Afghans in the context of poverty, conflict and social change

 

Irina Morozova

 


 

Dr. Irina Morozova


From October 2010 until September 2014, Dr. Irina Morozova was research fellow at the Central Asia-Seminar of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In addition, she was project director for the research project "The History of Perestroika in Central Asia (social transformation in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia, 1982-1991)" , which was funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
 

Fields of teaching and research:
  • Comparative history
  • Comparative Asian Studies
  • History of Central and Inner Asia
  • Modern national movements and post-imperial discourse
  • Socio-cultural transformation in Central and Inner Asia under (and after) socialism
  • Elite groups' transformation in Central and Inner Asia in the twentieth century and at present
  • Socio-political role of religion (Islam and Buddhism) in modern and contemporary Central and Inner Asia

 
Irina Morozova

 


Dr. Andrea Chiovenda


is PhD Candidate in Anthropology at Boston University and was visiting research fellow of the Crossroads Asia competence network until August 2014. He holds a Master in Ancient History from the University of Rome as well as a Master in Security Studies from Georgetown University in Washington DC. Andrea Chiovenda worked for the Italian Ministry of Defence and as freelance journalist and analyst for the Middle East. His recent research is based on original ethnographic material gathered during 18 months of fieldwork in Afghanistan, between 2009 and 2013.


Topic of research project:
Masculinity, Cultural Idioms, and Shifting Subjectivities among Afghan Pashtuns: A Psychodynamic View on Conflicting Social Figurations

 


 

Melissa Kerr Chiovenda


is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at the University of Connecticut, and holds a Master's Degree in Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies from Georgetown University. Until August 2014 she was visiting research fellow of the Crossroads Asia competence network, based at the Central Asian Seminar of Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. For her dissertation fieldwork she spent 18 months in Afghanistan. Previously, she was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, worked in Russia, and was a high school teacher in South Central Los Angeles.


Topic of research project:
100 Years of Suffering: How Words and Images are Shaping a New Hazara Consciousness

 


 

Prof. Dr. Rustem Kadyrzhanov


Prof. Kadyrzhanov has been awarded a scholarship from DAAD. He was visiting researcher at the Central Asian Seminar form July to August 2014.

Research and research projects

  • National identity in Kazakhstan
  • Problems of Cengtral Asian integration
  • Language-planning and lingual situation in Kazakhstan
  • Social transformation and ideology in Kazakhstan

Topic of research project:
Language planning and vernacular nationalism in Kazakhstan
Rustem Kadyrzhanov

 


 

Prof. Dr. Nasriddin Nazarov


Prof. Dr. Nasriddin Nazarov has been awarded a scholarship from Erasmus Mundus. He was visiting researcher at the Central Asian Seminar form September 2013 to July 2014.


Topic of research project:
Lakays: Ethno-Social and Cultural Developement Problems

Nasriddin Nazarov

 


 

Prof. Gulnara Kuzibaeva


Prof. Kuzibaeva was visiting researcher at the Central Asian Seminar and was part of the Crossroads Asia Network form November 2013 to July 2014.

Prof. Kuzibaeva is Associate Professor at the National University of Uzbekistan in Tashkent and an affiliated researcher at The Sociology Center "Sharh va Tavsiya" with an array of project management and consulting experience. Her main areas of interest include migration, demography and gender, as well as social policy analysis, with a focus on Central Asia.


Research topic:
Migration for Sex Work: The Case of Uzbekistan

Dr. Gulnara Kuzibaeva

 


 

Dr. Alok Kumar Kanungo
 

Until June 2014 Dr. Alok Kumar Kanungo was visiting researcher at the Central Asian Seminar at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Fields of teaching and research:

  • Indian Archaeology
  • Simple Living and Hill people of India in general and of NorthEast and East India in particular
  • Ancient Crafts and Technology
  • Museum Collections and Ethics
  • Ethnographic Research Methodology
 

Current research projects:

  • Origin and History of the Nagas
  • Integrating Museum collection with collector`s diaries, literature and field knowledge
  • NorthEast Indian cultural objects in different museums in Europe and UK
  • German speaking scholars on NorthEast Indian culture
Alok Kumar Kanungo

 


 

Dr. Maira Sarybay


Dr. Sarybay has been awarded a scholarship from the DAAD. She was visiting researcher at the Central Asian Seminar from October to December 2013.


Research Topic:
English in Kazakhstan: Language Policy and Education

 


 

Dr. Aitugan Mukashev


Dr. Mukashev has been awarded a scholarship from the DAAD. He was visiting researcher at the Central Asian Seminar from October to December 2013.


Research Topic:
Kymyz (fermented mare's milk)

 


 

Dr. Natalya Ustelimova


Dr. Natalya Ustelimova was visiting researcher at the Central Asian Seminar in November 2013, in cooperation with DAAD.


Research topic:
New ways of multilingualism and linguistic competence

 


 

Mirzaeva Zulkhumor Inomovna


Mirzaeva Zulkhumor Inomovna works at the Language and Literature Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Uzbekistan. She held a scholarship of the DAAD and was visiting researcher at the Central Asian Seminar from June to July 2012.
 

Mirzaeva

 


 

Bahodir Karimov


Bahodir Karimov is head of the Department of "World Literatur and Theorie" at the Faculty of Uzbek Philology at the national University of Uzbekistan. From June to July 2012 he was visiting researcher at the Central Asian Seminar funded by the DAAD.

Research Project:
The influence of works translated at the beginning of the 20th century on modern Uzbek literature

Karimov

 


 

Askar Djumashev


Askar Djumashev is the department chief of the Karakalpak branch of the Uzbek Academy of Scinece (history). From July 2009 to June 2010 Askar Djumashev was visiting researcher at the Central Asian Seminar and awarded a scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Research project:
"Soviet national policy in Central Asia (1924 - 1941) - the case of Qaraqalpaqstan"

Askar

 


 

Zaynabidin Sharabidinovich Abdirashidov


In December 2006 he was a PhD candidate at the Central Asian Seminar of the Humboldt University Berlin. Until October 2007 Zaynabidin Abdirashidov held a scholarship of the Volkswagen Stiftung.

PhD project:
Ismail Gasprinskiy (1851-1914) and early 20th century Turkistan:
Communication - relations - influences

Zaynabidin

 


 

Makset Karlibaev


Makset Karlibaev is the department chief of the Karakalpak branch of the Uzbek Academy of Scinece. From May 2007 to January 2008 Makset Karlibaev held a scholarship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Research project:
"Cult and Belief: the Role of Ziyarat in Present Day Karakalpak life"

Makset

 


 

Prof. Khurmetkhan Mukhamadi


Mai-Juli 2008 Mukhamadai was granted a scholarship of the DAAD. Partner at the INTAS-Project "Traditions of the Qonghirat"
 

 


 
Elisa T. Bertuzzo


July 2008 - October 2009 Guest Scientist at the IAA, financed by the Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies.
Bertuzzo's research focus' on megacities in the Islamic world.