Team > Dr. Benjamin Weineck

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion

Vita

• Since October 2021 Employed full-time at the University of Heidelberg
  
• Since July 2019 Leader of the BMBF junior research group “Contemporary Islamic Cultures“
  
• July 2019 PhD in Islamic studies (supervision by Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Seesemann, PD Dr. Robert Langer, and Prof. em. Dr. Michael Ursinus)
• October 2017 – July 2019 Provisional leader of the BMBF junior research group “Contemporary Islamic Cultures”
• Since 2014 Research associate at the junior research group “Contemporary Islamic Cultures” at the University of Bayreuth
• 2013 – 2015 Research Associate at the Seminar for Languages and Cultures of the Middle East, University of Hamburg
• 2013 Magister-degree with a thesis on late Ottoman polemic against the Bektashi-Order
• Wintersemester 2010/2011 studies at the Dehkhoda Institute for Persian Studies
• 2009 – 2013 student of Islamic studies (focus on Ottomanistic studies) and political sciences in Heidelberg
• 2008 – 2009 Erasmus exchange at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara
• 2006 – 2008 student of political sciences, Islamic philology, and Islamic studies at the University of Mainz
• 1987 born in Hannover

Memberships

• German Association for the Study of Religion (DVRW), working group Islam
• German Middle East Studies Association (DAVO)
• Society for Turkic, Ottoman, and Turkish Studies (GTOT)
• CIÉPO
• Islamicate Digital Humanities Network

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion

Research Foci

• Alevis in history and contemporary times
  
• Islam, especially Shiite Islam in Germany and Turkey
  
• Ottoman and Turkish regional and religious history as well as minority politics
  
• Manuscripts from Alevi family archives (associated with research center in Heidelberg)
  
• Religion and politics
  
• Linking ethnographic, philological and cultural studies’ methods
  

Projects

• Junior Research Group Contemporary Islamic Cultures
  
• Negotiating Alevi Cultural Heritage (completed)
  

Dissertation project

• Kızılbaş-Alevits in the Ottoman state between persecution and integration (completed)
  

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion

Publications

Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Study of Religion

Dr. Benjamin Weineck
Leader of the BMBF junior research group “Contemporary Islamic Cultures” (Prof. Bochinger, Prof. Schrode)

Phone: +49 (0)921 / 55-4728 | Fax: +49 (0)921 / 55-844156
E-Mail: benjamin.weineck@uni-bayreuth.de

Study of Religion with Focus on Contemporary Islam
Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences
Universität Bayreuth
95440 Bayreuth
Germany