Dr. Ghassan El Masri

• Since Sept. 2023 Research Associate at Forschungsstelle für religiöse Vielfalt, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
• Since 2023 Senior Fellow (non-resident) at Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies, Jordan
• 2022 Visiting Scholar at Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies, Jordan
• 2021 2nd Paternity Leave
• 2020-2023 Research Associate at Bayerisches Forschungszentrum für Interreligiöse Diskurse, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
• 2019 1st Paternity Leave
• 2017-2018 Vertreter der Professur für Arabistik – Acting Chairperson at Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik, Freie Universität-Berlin, Germany
• 2014–2017 Project Leader – ‘Ruin to Resurrection’ (DFG Project) at Corpus Coranicum, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Host Institution), Germany
• 2014 (Freelance) Noble Quran Oasis Project – Consultant at GMP Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner Berlin, Germany
• 2012–2013 Academic Coordinator for ERC Research Unit-‘Intellectual History of the Islamicate World’ at Institut für Islamwissenschaft, Freie Universität-Berlin, Germany
• 2011–2012 Research Fellow at Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universität-Berlin, Germany
• 2010–2011 Research Assistant at Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften BBAW, Corpus Coranicum Germany
• 2006–2011 Dr. phil. Arabic Studies (magna cum laude, Doktormutter: Prof. Dr. Dr. theol. h. c. Angelika Neuwirth) at Freie Universität-Berlin, Germany
• 2002–2006 & 2010–2016 Translator, then Assistant Editor at www.mideast-mirror.com, Mideast Mirror London, United Kingdom
• 2001-2002 ArcView and ArcGIS Operator, Denmark
• 1998–2000 PhD Candidate – Philosophy, University of Calgary, Canada
• 1996–1999 MA Philosophy (with High Distinction), American University of Beirut, Lebanon
• 1991–1996 BA Philosophy (with Distinction) at American University of Beirut, Lebanon
• 1982–1991 Jordanian High-School Diploma – French Stream at Collège de La Salle, Les Frères, Jordan

• Quranic Sciences
• Islamic Sciences
• Religion and Politics in the Middle East and Europe
• Theo-Politics

a) Monograph:

• The Semantics of Qurʾanic Language: al-Āḫira, Leiden, Brill, 2020. Online: https://brill.com/view/title/57282?language=en

b) Articles:

• „The European Katechon: A Note on the Political Theology of Present-day Christian–Muslim Engagement”, Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 2022, vol. 33, n. 4, pp. 377–40. (English original of “Der europäische Katechon“)
• „Der europäische Katechon – eine Anmerkung zur politischen Theologie der gegenwärtigen christlich-muslimischen Begegnung“, Erlanger Jahrbuch für Interreligiöse Diskurse, 2021, Vol. 1, pp. 283-323.
• “The Etymological Path to Moral Meaning: Adam and the Names” in Journal of Islamic Ethics, 2021, vol. 5, nr. 1, pp. 1-27.
• “The Afterlife of Arab-Nationalism and the Sunni Messiah: the Omens”, in Fundamentalism, Jennifer Wasmuth (ed.), Leiden: Brill, 2022, pp. 183-234.
• “The Qurʾān and the Character of Early Arabic Poetry”, in Quran and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam, Nuha Shaar (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 93-135.
• “Maʾsal: what the ṭalal would tell us”, in New directions in Quranic Studies, M. Sells and A. Neuwirth (eds.), New York: Routledge, 2016, pp. 249-261.
• “Min al-baʿad ilá al-āḫira: Poetic Time and Qurʾanic Eschatology”, in Les origines du Coran, le Coran des origines, François Déroche, Christian Julien Robin et Michel Zink (eds.), Paris: Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 2015, pp. 129-149.
• “Contribution à une meilleure compréhension de l’histoire de la Digue de Maʾrib au Yémen“, avec Ch. Darles, Ch. Robin et J. Schiettecatte, dans F. Baratte, Ch. Robin & E. Rocca (éds.), in Les barrages dans l’Antiquité tardive. Actes du colloque tenu à Paris le 7–8 Janvier 2011 (Orient et Méditerranée, 13), Paris, De Boccard, pp. 9-70.

c) Book Reviews:

• Lange, Christian, Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions, written by Christian Lange” (Cambridge, 2016) in Journal of Islamic Ethics, Vol. 1, nr. 1-2 (2017), pp. 208-212.
• Nasser, Shady Hekmat, The Transmission of the Variant Readings of the Qur’an: The Problem of Tawātur and the Emergence of Shawādhdh, (Leiden: Brill, 2013), al-Abhath; 2014-2015, n. 62/63, pp. 170-173.

d) Digital:

• Früharabische Poesie .xml database consisting of the three earliest anthologies of pre- and early Islamic poetry with historical metadata, at the Corpus Coranicum, Berlin- Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin. The Qur’anic Intertexts of Toshihiko Izutsu: A Critical Assessment, Online publication at Corpus Coranicum database, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin.

e) Journalistic:

• Editorial team, Mideast Mirror: A daily digest of the Arabic, Israeli, Turkish, and Iranian Press, Alef Publishing, London, UK.

f) Radio:

• Sure 103 Verse 1-3, „Das Ringen mit der Zeit“ in Koran erklärt, Deutschlandradio (aired: Dec. 2016).