Jens Georg Fischer, M.A.

Jens Georg Fischer, M.A.

Schlaunstr. 2, room 371
48143 Münster

T: +49 251 83-24821

 

  • Research Foci

    • Classical Arabic literature in its social context
    • History and literature of al-Andalus (esp. in the Almoravid period)
    • Christian and Muslim contact in the Iberian Pensinsula (esp. Aljamiado literature)
    • Early Modern Tunisia
    • Poetry in Arabic dialects

  • Doctoral AbstractThesis

    Poetry and politics. Arabic Panegyric Poetry as a Medium of Political Communication in the Post-Seljuk Middle East.

    Supervisor
    Professor Dr. Thomas Bauer
    Doctoral Subject
    Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft
    Targeted Doctoral Degree
    Dr. phil.
    Awarded by
    Department 09 – Philologies

  • CV

    Academic Education

    Doctoral studies in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Westphalian Wilhelms-University Münster
    M.A. Islamic and Arabic Studies, Westphalian Wilhelms-University Münster
    Language courses and study abroad at the Université Tunis El Manar, Tunisia
    B.A. Arabic-Islamic Culture and Romance Philology (Spanish), Westphalian Wilhelms-University Münster
    Study abroad (Spanish Philology) at the Universidad de Oviedo, Spain

    Positions

    Researcher at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics"
    Research assistant at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Westphalian Wilhelms-University Münster
    Student assistant at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Westphalian Wilhelms-University Münster
    Internship at the Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo (CSIC), Madrid, Spain

  • Publications

    Translations of Monographs

    • . . Der Hof des Kalifen. Córdoba als Zentrum der islamischen Hochkultur, Freiburg im Breisgau: Herder Verlag.

    Articles

    Research Articles (Journals)
    Entries in Encyclopediae (Book Contributions)
    • , and . “al-Maqqarī.” in Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE, edited by Kate Fleet, Gudrun Krämer, Denis Matringe, John Nawas and Devin J. Stewart. Leiden: Brill. doi: 10.1075/sl.22043.fis.

  • Scientific Talks

    • Fischer, Jens G. : “Ibn Sanāʾ al-Mulk and the supernova of 1181”. Arabische Literatur im Dialog mit der Natur, Universität Münster, .
    • Fischer, Jens G. : “Making Saladin: How Arabic poets of the Crusader period helped create the image of an exemplary Muslim warrior”. Invited talk, UT Dallas, .
    • Fischer, Jens G. : “‘Among princes he is a prince, among scholars a scholar’: learned rulers in 18th-century Tunisia”. 57th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Palais des congrès, Montréal, .
    • Fischer, Jens G. : “Generous catamites and nourishing monarchs: parodic sermons in pre-modern Arabic literature ”. Lachen und Kritik: Parodien in jüdischen, islamischen und christlichen Kontexten, Universität Münster, .
    • Fischer, Jens G. : “Remembering a martyred ruler: the assassination of Ṭalāʾiʿ b. Ruzzīk in the poetry of ʿUmāra al-Yamanī”. Forum Insaniyyat Tunis 2022, Université de la Manouba, .
    • Fischer, Jens G. : „Diplomatische Dichtung: Lobgedichte als Teil des Gesandtschaftsaustauschs im späten Abbasidenkalifat“. 34. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Freie Universität Berlin, .
    • Fischer, Jens G. : “Should a Sunni poet mourn a Shiite dynasty? ʿUmāra al-Yamanī’s elegy on the Fatimids and its afterlife”. European Academy of Religion, 4th Annual Conference, WWU Münster, .
    • Fischer, Jens G. : “Staying in control: autobiography amongst 12th century Arabic literati”. ENIS/MIDA Online Summer School 2020: Contesting authority: knowledge, power and expressions of selfhood, Università degli Studi di Catania, .
    • Fischer, Jens G. : “Literary patronage in Almoravid al-Andalus: Ibn Quzmān's networks”. ENIS Spring School 2019: Patronage and Clientelism in the Muslim World, Escuela de Estudios Árabes, Granada, .