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Name	Academic disciplines	Research interest
Ka Lok Yip	Philosophy, Sociology	International Law, International Relations, social theories, human rights
Eva Mira Youssef	Arab Studies, Linguistics, Media Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Philology	Arabic Papyrology, dating of early manuscripts (papyri and Quran), palaeography, dialects, Arabic Media language and landscape, intercultural competences
Florian Zemmin	Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Religious studies	Modernism, Secularism, Islamic reformism, Islamism, Salafism, religion, ethics, intellectual history, conceptual history, interdisciplinarity
Anke von Kügelgen	Intellectual History, Islamic Studies	Philosophy, Persian Historiography, Sufism in Central Asia

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