Position:
Director of the institute of Advanced Study at CEU & SFM Co-Director
Contact information
Building:
Vienna, Quellenstrasse 51
Prof Al-Bagdadi is a historian of modern Islamic history, thought, literature and culture. She studied at the Freie Universität in Berlin, in Cairo and Tunis. She examines in-depth the various actors, structures and relationships of late ottoman modernity and Muslim reformism in the Arab east. She connects Arab and ottoman history with European history. One of her current research projects relocates the entangled connections of European and Arab borders of faith and the role of religion, scholarship and modernity between Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean. Prof Al-Bagdadi deals systematically with the question of gender, religion and modernity in nineteenth-century Middle East.