Alev Masarwa

Dr. Alev Masarwa is an academic at the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Münster. She leads the DFG long-term project on the complete works of Ibn Nubāta and co-edits the ALEA research series. Her teaching spans Arabic historiography, ḥadīṯ, and Ottoman Turkish.

• Education: PhD in Arabic and Islamic Studies (2009), MA (1998), BA (1992) from the University of Münster

Her research focuses on pre-modern Arabic poetry, rhetoric, and Ottoman cultural history, particularly city panegyrics, nature poetry, and travel reports. She explores intersections between Russian formalism and Arabic literary theory.

Recent publications include monographs on Māmayya al-Rumī's poetry (2022) and city panegyrics (2022), plus articles on Quranic intertextuality (2022), chronograms (2017), and urban poetics (2017). Her work bridges literary analysis, historiography, and manuscript studies.

• Scientific Awards: Leibniz Prize recipient

She has taught courses on Islamic expansion, Ottoman Iraq, and Turkish grammar since 2000. Her DFG project on Ibn Nubāta's works aligns with broader interests in Arabic literature under the Ottomans and cross-cultural knowledge transfer.