Research Projects

The focal points of our projects at the Institute for Oriental Studies are very diverse and include cultural, historical, and linguistic topics relating to the Near and Middle East and North Africa. Below can be found an overview of projects at the Institute for Oriental Studies.

Current Projects

Anthropogenic Environments in the Future Tense: Loss, Change and Hope in Post-Soviet Industrial Landscapes

1/01/24 → 31/12/28

Project: Research funding

Grocers of Istanbul: Tracing Food Consumption

Köse, Y. & Andorfer, P.

1/07/22 → 30/06/25

Project: Research funding

Hanafi law in Western, Central and South Asia, 12th-15th c.

1/11/22 → 31/10/26

Project: Research funding

The language of the Arab minority in Southern Iran

El Zarka, D. & Prochazka, S.

1/08/20 → 31/07/24

Project: Research funding

The Shawi-type Arabic dialects spoken in South-eastern Anatolia and the Middle Euphrates region

Prochazka, S. & Mörth , K.

1/02/21 → 31/01/25

Project: Research funding

Travelling Gardens: Khorasan and Mesopotamia, 8th-12th c.

6/05/24 → 5/05/27

Project: Research funding

Tunisia’s Linguistic terra incognita

Ritt-Benmimoun, V.

1/04/19 → 30/09/24

Project: Research funding

WIBARAB: What is bedouin-type Arabic? The linguistic and socio-historical realities behind the millennia-old dichotomous concept of nomadic and sedentary people in the Middle East and North Africa

1/10/21 → 30/09/26

Project: Research funding

Future Projects

DANFront

Inal, O., Strohmeyer, A., Preiser-Kapeller, J., Corman, M., Vadas, A. & Szepesiné Simon, É.

1/08/24 → 31/07/27

Project: Research funding

DigEanna: a Digital Reconstruction of the Eanna Archive

Jursa, M., Sandowicz, M., Hackl, J., Lassen, A., Waerzeggers, C., Agut, D., Mühl, S., Lämmerhirt, K., Jiménez, E. & Helwing, B.

1/10/24 → 30/09/27

Project: Research funding