Name /

Nadia Al-Bagdadi

Year of birth / 1963
Qualification / University
Degree and field / 1996 Dr. Phil, Freie Universitat Berlin, Disseration: Imagined Public Sphere. On the Transformation of the literary sphere and the Genesis of Modern Prose in Egypt, 1860-1908 [Vorgestellte Öffentlichkeit. Zum Wandel der literarischen Sphäre und zur Genese moderner Prosa in Ägypten, 1860-1908]
Present job; position / 2005 – CentralEuropeanUniversity (Budapest)
Highest academic degree / 1996 Dr. Phil, Freie Universitat Berlin
Teaching activity (courses taught, time spent in education / CEU (MA)
(2002-2004) "'High' and 'Low' Culture - Concepts and Critics of a Classical Paradigm", "Transferability of Concepts: Part I Introduction to the Problem", "Transferability of Concepts Part II: The Public Sphere".
(2003-2004) "Religious Reformism in Comparative Perspective", "Religion and Modernity", "Introduction to the Study of Medieval Arab Culture".
(2005-2006) “Religious and Secular Modernism in Late Ottoman Empire”
(2005-2006) “Bookish Traditions: Authority and the Book in Scripturalist Religions”
“Secular and Religious Reform in the Late Ottoman Empire”, “Imperial Legacies, Religion, and the Formation of Modern Nation States”, “Universalism and Particularism – Introduction to the Problem”, “Secularism and Islam”
The five most important publications if different from the previous / Avriel Butovsky, The Languages of History: Selected Writings on the Middle East, Ed. by Nadia Al-Bagdadi with Roger Owen and Zachary Lockman. Cambridge, MA (CMES - HarvardUniversity Press) 1995. Ed.
Vision and Visuality in Classical Arab Civilisation. Special Volume, (Guest editor), Medieval History Journal, 9.1 (2006).
"Großstadtreflexionen in der Nasser-Ära: Metropolis und Verbrechen in Nagib Mahfuz' al-Liss wa'l-kilab" [Literary Reflections in the Nasser-Era: Metropolis and Crime in Najib Mahfuz' al-Liss wa'l-kilab], Die Welt des Islam 34 (1994) pp. 21-47.
"The Visible and the InvisibleCity: The colonial City of Cairo and the Encyclopaedist ‘Ali Mubarak", Myths, Historical Archetypes and Symbolic Figures in Arabic Literature. Towards a New Hermeneutic Approach. Ed. Angelika Neuwirth/ Deutsches Orient Institut Beirut, Beirut, Wiesbaden: Steiner Verlag, pp. 539-51, 1996.
"Wie dicht ist das Netz? Kritische Überlegungen zur Anwendbarkeit eines Analysemodells am Beispiel der Spätosmanischen Levante" [Networks in the Levante in the mid nineteenth century], Die Islamische Welt als Netzwerk. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen des Netzwerkansatzes im islamischen Kontext , Eds. Roman Loimeier, Würzburg: Ergon Verlag, 2000 pp.181-94.
Academic administrative work, memberships, international relations / "Arab Culture as Complex System", Proceedings of the Congress on Sign Processes in Complex Systems. Eds. by Thomas Seboek and Walter Schmitz, (Dresdener Studien zur Semiotik) (text of keynote lecture), 2003.
“From Heaven to Dust: Metamorphosis of the Book in Pre-modern Arab Culture”, The Medieval History Journal, 8,1 (2005) 83-107.
“Syria”, Encyclopedia of Christianity (Eerdmans-Brill) Vol. 5, 2007 [revised and up-dated version of an earlier Article on "Syrien", in Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon. Internationale theologische Enzyklopädie, Göttingen 1994]
“The Other Eye – Sight and Insight in Classical Arab Dream Literature”, Medieval History Journal 9,1 (2006), 115-41.