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PD Dr. Georg Leube

Sprach- und literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Lehrstuhl Islamwissenschaft

Academic Degrees:

Professional Background:

since 2022: Akademischer Oberrat (senior lecturer) at the Chair of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Languages and Literatures, University of Bayreuth
2022-2023: Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, complemented by a Feodor Lynen Research Grant of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
2022: parental leave (2 months)
2020-2022: Part-time Visiting Professor for Islamic Studies at the University of Hamburg
2018: Representation of the Chair of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Languages and Literatures, University of Bayreuth
2016-2022: Akademischer Rat (lecturer) at the Chair for Islamic Studies, Faculty of Languages and Literatures, University of Bayreuth
2015-2016: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at DYNTRAN: Dynamics of Transmission: Families, Authority and Knowledge in the Early Modern Middle East (15th-17th centuries), funded by ANR/DFG, Iranian Studies, Marburg University
2012-2014: Research Fellow at the Chair of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Languages and Literatures, University of Bayreuth

Appointments, Functions, Scientific Activities:

2023-2025: Representative of the untenured academic staff (Mittelbauvertreter) on the committee overseeing PhD-dissertations (Promotionskommission), Faculty of Languages and Literatures, University of Bayreuth.
2019-2021: Representative of the untenured academic staff (Mittelbauvertreter) on the committee distributing the supplementary funds for improved teaching (Studienzuschusskommission), Faculty of Languages and Literatures, University of Bayreuth.
2015-2019: Co-Editor of META: Middle East, Topics and Arguments (Academic Online Journal, http://meta-journal.net/): Member of the editorial board, responsible editor of the sections Off Topic and Review.

Early Islamic history
Courtly representation in the 15th century CE Persophonie
Methodologically oriented contributions to Islamicate cultural history (prosopography, iconography, epigraphy, textual criticism, material culture studies, memory studies)
Islamic and Islamicate historiography as a space of reflection and debate in Muslim cultural history
Transcultural entanglements in the post-ancient wider Mediterranean

Georg Leube: Erudition at the Intersection of Genres? The Asymmetrical Deployment of Genres in Ibn Ajā's Taʾrīkh al-amīr Yashbak. In: Hülya Çelik, Petr Kučera (Hrsg.): Selected Studies on Genre in Middle Eastern Literatures : From Epics to Novels. - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023. - S. 169-193.

Georg Leube: Laughter in the Discursive Tradition? : Emotions of Muḥammad as the Topic of a Pious Arabic-English Reader. In: Bernard Schweizer, Molokotos-Liedermann Lina, Yasmin Amin (Hrsg.): Muslims and Humour : Essays on Comedy, Joking, and Mirth in Contemporary Islamic Contexts. - Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2022. - S. 44-69.

Georg Leube: Subversive Philology? : Prosopography as a Relational and Corpus-Based Approach to Early Islamic History. In: Abbas Aghdassi, Aaron W. Hughes (Hrsg.): New Methods in the Study of Islam. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022. - S. 44-69.

Georg Leube: Ibn al-Ash'ath . In: (Hrsg.): Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE. - Leiden: Brill, 2021.

Georg Leube: Polemics on a Palimpsest: Intertextual jibes in the 15th Century Inscriptions in Persepolis / Takht-i Jamshīd. In: Silvia Balatti, Hilmar Klinkott, Josef Wiesehöfer, (Hrsg.): Paleopersepolis : environment, landscape and society in ancient Fars : proceedings of the international colloquium held in Kiel 4th-6th July 2018. - Stuttgart : Steiner, 2021. - S. 267-290.

Georg Leube: Relational Iconography : Representational Culture at the Qara- and Aqquyunlu Courts (853 / 1449 CE to 907 / 1501 CE). - Bayreuth, 2021.
(, 2021, Universität Bayreuth, Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, Lehrstuhl Islamwissenschaften)

Georg Leube: Insult the Caliph, Marry al-Ḥasan, and Redeem Your Kingdom : Freiheitsgrade of Kindī Elites During the 7th to 9th Century. In: Hannah-Lena Hagemann, Stefan Heidemann (Hrsg.): Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire.Vol 1. The Early Islamic Empire at Work. - Berlin : DeGruyter, 2020. - S. 47-67.
doi:10.1515/9783110669800

Georg Leube: Islamic Architecture in Pre-colonial Africa. In: Fallou Ngom, Mustapha H. Kurfi, Toyin Falola (Hrsg.): The Palgrave Handbook of Islam in Africa. - Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. - S. 281-302.
doi:10.1007/978-3-030-45759-4_16

Iconography. - Perrine Lachenal, Georg Leube (Hrsg.). - Middle East - Topics & Arguments, 8 (2017),
doi:10.17192/meta.2017.8.190

Georg Leube: The Liberties of a Transmitter : Frantz Fanon according to Sharīʿatī. In: Dustin J. Byrd, Seyed Javad Miri (Hrsg.): Ali Shariati and the future of social theory : religion, revolution, and the role of the intellectual. - Leiden : Brill, 2017. - S. 157-169.