Research

Dr. Zahiye Kundos

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Research Associate

kundos(at)dubnow.de
Phone: +49 341 21 735 695

Working at the Dubnow Institute as a Research Associate since 2023 in the »Ignaz Goldziher Program«.

Studied Comparative Literature and History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and completed her MA degree at the University of Tel Aviv. In 2018 she completed her PhD at the School of Cultural Studies at Tel Aviv University. The subject of PhD thesis: »‘The Firm Indissoluble Bond:’ Al-Afghānī and ʿAbduh on Modernist Islam as Critique of Modernity«. In 2020 she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Forum Transregionale Studien and a visiting scholar affiliated with the Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik at Freie Universität, Berlin. Between 2021 and 2023, she held a post-doctoral fellowship with the Minerva Foundation in Berlin and the Forum Transregionale Studien.

 

Research Project

A Mutual Process of Literary Shaping: Motherhood in Contemporary Arabic and Hebrew Prose

Research interests

  • Arab Intellectual History
  • Islamic Reformism 
  • Arabic Literature

Publications

Essays and Articles

What Can We Learn from the »Abd al-Jawad Family«, in: Orit Bashkin/Meir Hatina (eds.),The Sphinx in an Era of Transitions: Revisiting Modern Egyptian History, Tel Aviv 2024, 241-266 [Heb]. 

Amīna and the Breaking of the Secular Silence: Revisiting The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz, in: Political Theology, May 2024 (online).

Toward a Second Rise of Islamic Madanīyya ‘Civilization’: al-Afghānī and ʿAbduh On ‘al-ʿUrwa al-Wuthqā la infiṣām lahā, in: Maha al-Kaisy-Friemuth/Reza Hajatpour/Muhammed Abdel-Rahem (eds.), Rationalität in der Islamischen Theologie, Berlin/Boston, 2022, 31–49.

Beginnings, Belongings and Political Anxieties, in: Dana Lloyd/Jan Pranger (eds.),Political Theology and Settler Colonialism, Oxfordshire 2023, 1–11 (translated from the Hebrew).

Beginnings, Belongings and Political Anxieties, in: Political Theology, June 2023 (online).

Faith Without Compulsion: Reflections on Iran, Political Theology Network, 2022, translated into Hebrew: The Never Breaking Bond, In: Hazman Hazeh, Jerusalem 2022.

The Jaffa Alternative, in: Hazman Hazeh, Jerusalem 2021 (Heb.)., translated into German: Lettre International, Berlin 2021.