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
Dagyeli, J. (Project Lead), Ocakli, B. (Project Staff), Olma, N. (Project Staff), Kulinova, A. (Project Staff) & Kanatbekova, N. (Affiliated Project Staff)
1/01/24 → 31/12/28
Project: Research funding
DigEanna: a Digital Reconstruction of the Eanna Archive
Jursa, M. (Project Lead), Sandowicz, M. (Co-Lead), Hackl, J. (Co-Lead), Lassen, A. (Co-Lead), Waerzeggers, C. (Co-Lead), Agut, D. (Co-Lead), Mühl, S. (Co-Lead), Lämmerhirt, K. (Co-Lead), Jiménez, E. (Co-Lead) & Helwing, B. (Co-Lead)
1/10/24 → 30/09/27
Project: Research funding
Hanafi law in Western, Central and South Asia, 12th-15th c.
Ivanyi, K. (Project Lead)
1/11/22 → 31/10/26
Project: Research funding
Mesopotamian Bird Divination: A Study of the Bird Omens in the divinatory series Šumma ālu
De Zorzi, N. (Project Lead)
1/09/25 → 31/08/27
Project: Research funding
Navico: Navigating coercion in Ancient Babylonia
Jursa, M. (Project Lead) & Abraham, K. (Co-Lead)
1/10/25 → 30/09/29
Project: Research funding
The Shawi-type Arabic dialects spoken in South-eastern Anatolia and the Middle Euphrates region
Prochazka, S. (Project Lead) & Mörth , K. (Co-Lead)
1/02/21 → 31/01/27
Project: Research funding
Travelling Gardens: Khorasan and Mesopotamia, 8th-12th c.
Mahmoudian, S. (Project Lead)
6/05/24 → 5/05/27
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
Prochazka, S. (Project Lead)
1/10/21 → 30/09/26
Project: Research funding
Writing Against the Law: Ottoman-Armenian Print Culture
Kebranian Stepien, N. (Project Lead)
1/09/25 → 31/07/29
Project: Research funding
