Yasemin Gökpinar
substitue professorship
Islamic Studies
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In the winter semester 2023/24, I am Acting Professor of Islamic Studies (History and Culture of the Pre-Modern Middle East).
I am responsible for advising students on the Islamic Studies semester abroad.
My research focuses on Arabic music theory and culture, Greek-Arabic translations, and manuscript culture.
I am an Arabist, Islamic scholar and musicologist and received my PhD in 2016 from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) with a thesis on "Courtly Music Practice in Medieval Arab-Islamic Culture from the Abbasid Period to the Mamluks" (funded by the Evangelisches Studienwerk). From 2013 to 2014 I worked in the ERC project "Glossarium Graeco-Arabicum" (Greek-Arabic lexical database) in Bochum, and from 2015 to 2018 I was a research assistant at the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Since April 2018 I have been working as assistant professor at the Seminar for Arabic and Islamic Studies in Bochum (currently on leave), and since October 2018 as a research associate in the ERC project "Ancient Music Beyond Hellenisation" at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna.
At the RUB, I taught seminars on modern Arabic and Turkish literature until my doctorate. At the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, I taught Arabic manuscript studies and editing techniques, including the use of the editing programme Classical Text Editor. Other subjects I have taught include music culture and theory from the Abbasids to the present day, critical history, theoretical philosophy, history of science and Arabic exile poetry. Together with the main applicant, Kata Moser, I have applied for the DAAD project "Ana wa-ant in performative world approaches", which is being realised within the framework of the "University Dialogue with the Islamic World" in cooperation with the universities of Göttingen, Bochum, Nizwa (Oman) and Jendouba (Tunisia). This includes a Spring School in Oman with students from Hamburg, Göttingen, Nizwa and Jendouba, which will take place in January 2024 on the theme "My Culture/Your Culture: Borders and Border Crossings in Literary Forms of Expression" (call for proposals to follow).
I am author of al- Muwaylihi, Muhammad: Die Erzählung des Isa ibn Hisam. Die zweite Reise (2014) and Höfische Musikkultur im klassischen Islam. Ibn Faḍlallāh al-ʿUmarī (gest. 749/1349) über die dichterische und musikalische Kunst der Sängersklavinnen (2020) as well as Der ṭarab der Sängersklavinnen. Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār von Ibn Faḍlallāh al-ʿUmarī (gest. 749/1349): Textkritische Edition des 10. Kapitels Ahl ʿilm al-mūsīqī mit kommentierter Übersetzung. Most recently, I was guest editor of Oriens with a special issue on Musical Sources and Theories from Ancient Greece to the Ottoman Period.
Research interests
Cultural and intellectual history of the pre-modern Middle East
- Arabic music theory in the context of theoretical philosophy
- History of science
- Arabic-Greek translation movement
- Manuscript culture, codicology and edition philology
- Arabic literature in history and present
Research Projects
„Ancient Music Beyond Hellenisation“, (2018-2024) AMBH https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeai/research/classical-studies/ancient-music/ancient-music-beyond-hellenisation
"The Oriental Manuscripts in Arabic Script of the Senckenberg University Library, Frankfurt am Main" (ongoing).
This project makes accessible the Arabic manuscripts of the Johann Christian Senckenberg University Library, Frankfurt am Main. The corpus of about 100 manuscripts in Arabic, Ottoman and Persian was partly processed physically and content-wise within the framework of two project courses "Forschendes Lernen" (University Programme "Forschendes Lernen", RUB, and Förderfonds Lehre, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main). Under supervision, the students researched both the digitised manuscripts and the physical manuscripts in the library. After revision and completion, the results will be published in a catalogue.