Dr. Ghazaleh Faridzadeh, LL.M.

T: +43-1-4277-43455

ghazaleh.faridzadeh@univie.ac.at

Summer term 2025

141172 VO Introduction to the History of Islam

Faridzadeh, G. (2024). The Echoes of Fitna. Accumulated Meaning and Performative Historiography in the First Muslim Civil War. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 114.

Faridzadeh, G. (2024). The School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi’i Islamic Tradition. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 114.

Faridzadeh, G. (2023). Al-wāḥid al-kaṯīr: Ibn ʿArabī’s Sufism and its influence on the Humanitarian Islam movement. In R. Lohlker, & K. Ivanyi (Eds.), Humanitarian Islam: Reflecting on an Islamic Concept (pp. 69-94). Brill. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657790265_006

Faridzadeh, G. (2023). Mīrzā ʿĪsā Qāʾim-Maqām Farahānī and his works. In D. Thomas, & J. Chasworth (Eds.), Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History. Vol. 20: Persia, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia (1800-1914) (pp. 176-186). Brill.

Faridzadeh, G. (2023). The Charter of Medina. In The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative International Law (MPECCOL) Oxford University Press.

Faridzadeh, G. (2021). In Search of Equal Justice (al-'adl bis-sawiyya) The Development of "musawat" in the Political and Religious Language of Islamic Countries: The Development of “musāwāt” in the Political and Religious Language of Islamic Countries. Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society, 7(1), 125-154. https://doi.org/10.30965/23642807-bja10016

Faridzadeh, G. (2021). Islamische Erziehung im Iran: Ein historischer Überblick. In E. Aslan (Ed.), Handbuch Islamische Religionspädagogik: Teil 2 (Vol. 2, pp. 1269-1296). Brill | V & R unipress .

Faridzadeh, G., & Faridzadeh, R. (2021). Negotiating Freedom: Mostašār od-Doule’s Yek kalame and the Iranian Constitutional Experience. Die Welt des Islams, 61(4), 385-410. https://doi.org/10.1163/15700607-61020005

Faridzadeh, G. (2021). Political Quietism in Islam. Sunni and Shi'i Practice and Thought (Review). Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 111, 415-418.

Faridzadeh, G., & Ghadiri (2020). A Comparative Legal Study of the Marriage with an Adopted Child in Iran, UK and Germany: Moṭāleʿe-ye taṭbīqī-e qavānīn-e Irān, Ālmān va Engelīs darbāre-ye ezdevāǧ bā farzand-ḫāndeh. Comparative Law Review, 11(2), 659-685.

Faridzadeh, G. (2020). Menschsein und Personsein – die Entwicklung aus Sicht des islamischen Rechts. In I. Augsberg, S. Augsberg, & L. Heidbrink (Eds.), Recht auf Nicht-Recht: Rechtliche Reaktionen auf die Juridifizierung der Gesellschaft (1 ed., pp. 241-275). Velbrück Wissenschaft.

Faridzadeh, G., & Kabgani (2019). Types of Access to Constitutional Jurisdiction with Emphasis on Constitutional Complaint: ʾAnvāʿe ravešhā-ye dādḥāhī asāsī. Legal Research Quarterly, 22(85), 321-348.

Faridzadeh, G., (TRANS.), & Mayel, (TRANS.) (2018). Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

Faridzadeh, G., & Faridzadeh, R. (2018). Rule of Law, Legal Plurality, Legal Interpretation, Some Aspects of a ‘Hermeneutics of Legal Pluralism’ from a Rule-of-Law Perspective: Takaṯṯor-e ḥoqūqī, ḥakemīyat-e qānūn, tafsīr-e farhangī. Iranian Journal of Cultural Studies and Communication, 52(3), 13-31.

Faridzadeh, G. (2016). Vom Mensch-Sein zum Person-Sein: Eine historische Analyse des (Rechts-)Personengedankens im Islam. Nomos Verlag.

Ghazaleh Faridzadeh

External lecturer

Department of Near Eastern Studies

Type of address: Postal address.

Austria

Employment

Postdoc

Department of Near Eastern Studies

University of Vienna

Austria

16 Jul 2019 → 31 Jan 2024

External lecturer

Department of Near Eastern Studies

University of Vienna

Austria

1 Mar 2025 → present

Education and academic career

- Since February 2025: Senior Research Fellow (Gerda Henkel Fellowship) and lecturer at the University of Vienna, Institute of Near Eastern Studies.
- 2019-2024: University Assistant at the University of Vienna. Teaching experiences: Contemporary philosophical, political, and ethical discourses, Islamic philosophy; Islamic ethics; Islamic jurisprudence; Contemporary approaches in Islamic-theological studies; Islam and diversity; Islamic history; Contemporary issues of Islamic anthropology and ethics; Introduction to Near Eastern studies.
- 2016-2019: Assistant Professor at the Shahid Beheshti University for Public Law (Family Research Institute). Teaching experience: Basic rights; Administrative Law; Law and philosophy, Comparative Family Law; Law and ethics, Private International Law; Interdisciplinary Family Studies ….
Supervision activities: Supervisor of ca. 12 master theses
- 2015-2018: Guest Professor at the Tarbiat Modarres University Tehran, Chair for Public Law
- 2014-2016: Senior Research Fellow at the Max-Planck-Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law
- 2007- 2013: Dr. iur. in Public Law and Fundamentals of Law, Humboldt University in Berlin
- 2005-2006: Master in Law (LL.M. degree) Humboldt University in Berlin
- 2001-2005: B.A. degree in Law, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran.

Main research fields

Law and philosophy, Legal theories, Legal history, (Comparative) Constitutional law, Islamic legal and theological theories...