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Dr. Jakob Krais

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From January, 2022, Jakob Krais has been a researcher at the Department of Oriental and Islamic Studies with the subproject A01 “Path and guidance: The development of Qur’anic metaphors of space and movement in the Tafsīr literature” (head: Prof Dr Johann Büssow) of CRC 1475 “Metaphors of Religion: Religious Meaning-Making in Language Use.” He studied History, Islamic Studies, and Philosophy in Berlin and Rome and did his PhD on historiography and nation-building in Qaddafi’s Libya at Freie Universität Berlin. After that, he worked at different universities in Berlin and Bremen. As a fellow of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, with a project on late colonial Algeria he was affiliated with Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) and Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin, as well as with the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies (CNMS) in Marburg. Out of this project developed his second book “Shaping the Modern Body: A Somatic Cultural History of Late Colonial Algeria, c. 1919-1962,” which is currently being evaluated for the degree of habilitation at RUB. Jakob Krais’s main research interests lie, among other things, with the cultural and intellectual history of the Arab world, primarily the modern Maghreb, as well as with Islamic reform, colonialism, youth, and gender.  

Publications

Monographien:

Spielball der Scheichs. Die WM in Katar und der arabische Fußball. Bielefeld: Die Werkstatt, 2021.

Geschichte als Widerstand. Geschichtsschreibung und nation-building in Qaḏḏāfīs Libyen. Kultur, Recht und Politik in muslimischen Gesellschaften. Würzburg: Ergon, 2016.

Herausgeberschaft:

(mit Katrin Bromber) „Shaping the ‘New Man’ in Asia, Africa and the Middle East: Practices, Networks and Mobilization (1940s-1960s).“ Comparativ 28, no. 5 (2018).

Aufsätze:

„The French Connection: Political Islam from the Algerian War to the Iranian Revolution.“ Middle Eastern Studies 58, no. 1 (2022): 214-28.

„Of Saints and Scouts: Performing Religious Ethics in Colonial Algeria’s Youth Movements.“ Journal for Islamic Studies 38 (2020): 53-80.

„Internationalist Nationalism: Making Algeria at World Youth Festivals (1947-62).“ In The Arab Lefts: Histories and Legacies, 1950s-1970s, hrsg. v. Laure Guirguis, 110-26. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2020.

„Re-Centering Libya’s History: Mediterranean Bulwark, Defender of Africa, or Bridge between Continents?“ Lamma: A Journal of Libyan Studies 1 (2020): 13-36 (open access, URL: cloud.punctumbooks.com/s/kxydSnkK8xsZ7HF#pdfviewer).

„Decolonizing Body and Mind: Physical Activity and Subject Formation in Colonial Algeria.“ In Muslim Subjectivities in Global Modernity: Islamic Traditions and the Construction of Modern Muslim Identities, hrsg. v. Dietrich Jung und Kirstine Sinclair, 33-54. Leiden und Boston: Brill, 2020.

„Muscular Muslims: Scouting in Late Colonial Algeria between Nationalism and Religion.“ International Journal of Middle East Studies 51, no. 4 (2019): 567-85 (open access, DOI: doi.org/10.1017/S0020743819000679).

„Girl Guides, Athletes, and Educators: Women and the National Body in Late Colonial Algeria.“ Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 15, no. 2 (2019): 199-215.

„Mastering the Wheel of Chance: Motor Racing in French Algeria and Italian Libya.“ Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 39, no. 1 (2019): 143-58.

(mit Katrin Bromber) „Introduction: Shaping the ‘New Man’ in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Practices between Hope and Anxiety (1940s-1960s).“ Comparativ 28, no. 5 (2018): 7-21.

„A ‘New Man’ for a New Nation: Activism and Physical Culture in Late Colonial Algeria.“ Comparativ 28, no. 5 (2018): 38-58.

„The Sportive Origin of Revolution: Youth Movements and Generational Conflicts in Late Colonial Algeria.“ Middle East - Topics & Arguments 9 (2017): 132-41 (open access, DOI: dx.doi.org/10.17192/meta.2017.9.6965).

„Youth and Sports in Algeria’s Diplomatic Struggle for International Recognition (1957-1962).“ The Maghreb Review 42, no. 3 (2017): 227-53.

„Qatar Airways vs. Emirates: Der globale Sport und die neuen Mächte am Persischen Golf.“ In L.I.S.A. Das Wissenschaftsportal der Gerda Henkel Stiftung, 8. Dezember 2016, URL: https://lisa.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/qatar_airways_vs._emirates?nav_id=6707 (open access).

„Una storia nazionale? La storiografia libica sul colonialismo italiano.“ In Memorie con-divise. Popoli, Stati e Nazioni nel Mediterraneo e in Medio Oriente, hrsg. v. Paolo Branca und Marco Demichelis. Bd. I. 219-30. Mailand: SeSaMO/LeggereLeggere, 2014.

„Claiming the Libyan Space: Fascist lieux de mémoire in North Africa.“ In Mediterráneos: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Cultures of the Mediterranean Sea, hrsg. v. Sergio Carro Martín et al. 275-90. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2013.

„Shakīb Arslān’s Libyan Dilemma: Pro-Fascism through Anti-Colonialism in La Nation Arabe?“ In Rethinking Totalitarianism and its Arab Readings. Proceedings of the Conference “European Totalitarianism in the Mirrors of Contemporary Arab Thought”, Beirut, October 6-8, 2010, hrsg. v. Manfred Sing. Beirut und Istanbul: Orient-Institut/Perspectivia, 2012, URL: https://perspectivia.net/receive/ploneimport_mods_00012351" (open access).

„Verdrängte Vorgeschichte - Die Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institute als Vorläufer der FU.“ In Geschichte der Freien Universität Berlin. Ereignisse - Orte - Personen, hrsg. v. Jessica Hoffmann et al. 13-32. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2008.

Lexikoneinträge:

„Libya from 1500.“ In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three. Leiden und Boston: Brill (zur Veröffentlichung angenommen).

„Barqa.“ In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three. Bd. 2021-4, 11-14. Leiden und Boston: Brill, 2021.

„Benghazi“ In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three. Bd. 2021-4, 14-16. Leiden und Boston: Brill, 2021.

„al-Mukhtār, ‛Umar.“ In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three. Bd. 2020-6, 130-33. Leiden und Boston: Brill, 2020.

„Kufra.“ In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three. Bd. 2020-5, 90-92. Leiden und Boston: Brill, 2020.

„Miṣrāta since 1551.“ In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three. Bd. 2020-5, 130-32. Leiden und Boston: Brill, 2020.

„Ghadames.“ In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, Bd. 2019-5, 35-38. Leiden und Boston: Brill, 2019.

„Boy scout.“ In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, Bd. 2019-4, 25-27. Leiden und Boston: Brill, 2019.

„Fazzān.“ In Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, Bd. 2019-2, 33-36. Leiden und Boston: Brill, 2019.

„Jamāhīriyya.“ Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, Bd. 2019-1, 99-101. Leiden und Boston: Brill, 2019.

„Bennabi, Malek.“ Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three, Bd. 2018-6, 27-30. Leiden und Boston: Brill, 2018.

Rezensionen:

„Rezension von Woerner-Powell, Tom. Another Road to Damascus: An Integrative Approach to ‛Abd al-Qādir al-Jazā’irī (1808-1883).“ Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 114, no. 6 (2019): 337-38.

„Rezension von Christophe, Barbara, Kohl, Christoph und Liebau, Heike, Hrsg. Geschichte als Ressource. Politische Dimensionen historischer Authentizität.“ Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 113, nos. 4-5 (2018): 311-13.

„Rezension von Pargeter, Alison, Libya: The Rise and Fall of Qaddafi.“ H-Soz-u-Kult, H-Net Reviews, 2013, URL: www.h-net.org/reviews/shorev.php?id=4079