Priv. Doz. Dr. Georg Leube

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsIslamic Studies, Arabian Studies, Semitic Studies
KeywordsQara- und Aqquyunlu, Stadtstruktur, Inschriften, Kulturgeschichte, Sozialgeschichte

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityBayreuth
InstitutionUniversität Bayreuth
InstituteLehrstuhl für Islamwissenschaft

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Sabine SchmidtkeSchool of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2022

Programme(s)

2022Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2023Georg Leube: Erudition at the Intersection of Genres? The Asymmetrical Deployment of Genres in Ibn Ajā's Taʾrīkh al-amīr Yashbak. In: Hülya Çelik and Petr Kučera, Selected Studies on Genre in Middle Eastern Literatures: From Epics to Novels. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023. 169-193
2023Georg Leube: Obliterating Leadership: The Case for an Historiographical Excommunication of al-Ashʿath b. Qays. In: al-Masaq, 35, 2023, 34-53
2023Georg Leube: Relational Iconography: Representational Culture at the Qara- and Aqquyunlu Courts (853 / 1449 CE to 907 / 1501 CE). Brill, 2023
2022Georg Leube: Laughter in the Discursive Tradition? Emotions of Muḥammad as the Topic of a Pious Arabic-English Reader. In: Bernard Schweizer and Lina Molotokos-Liederman, Muslims and Humour: Essays on Comedy, Joking, and Mirth in Contemporary Islamic Contexts. Bristol University Press, 2022. 44-69
2022Georg Leube: Subversive Philology? Prosopography as a Relational and Corpus-Based Approach to Early Islamic History. In: Abbas Aghdassi and Aaron W. Hughes, New Methods in the Study of Islam. Edinburgh University Press, 2022. 71-107
2021Georg Leube: Polemics on a Palimpsest: Intertextual jibes in the 15th Century Inscriptions in Persepolis / Takht-i Jamshīd. In: Silvia Balatti, Hilmar Klinkott, and Josef Wiesehöfer, Paleopersepolis: Environment, Landscape and Society in Ancient Fars. Franz Steiner, 2021. 267-290
2020Georg Leube: Insult the caliph, marry al-Ḥasan, and redeem your kingdom: Freiheitsgrade of Kindī elites during the 7th to 9th century CE. In: Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Stefan Heidemann, Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire: The Early Islamic Empire at Work Volume 1 . de Gruyter, 2020. 47-68
2019Georg Leube: Encounters of Christian power and Islamic truth? Two stories of divine intervention on behalf of Islam. In: eHumanista, 41, 2019, 62-73
2019Georg Leube: Ramon Martí or: How to emulate the Qurʾān. In: Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient and Mediaeval Near East 3, 2019, 181-194
2018Georg Leube: Aqquyunlu Turkmen rulers facing the ruins of Takht-i Jamshid. In: Der Islam, 95, 2018, 479-506
2017Georg Leube: Kinda in der frühislamischen Geschichte: Eine prosopographische Studie auf Basis der frühen und klassischen arabisch-islamischen Geschichtsschreibung. Ergon, 2017
2017Georg Leube: The Liberties of a Transmitter: Frantz Fanon according to Sharīʿatī. In: Dustin J. Byrd and Seyed Javad Miri, Ali Shariati and the Future of Social Theory: Religion, Revolution and the Role of the Intellectual. Brill, 2017. 157-169
2016Georg Leube: Sacred Topography: A spatial approach to the stelae of Gao-Saney. In: Islamic Africa, 7, 2016, 44-59
2013Georg Leube: Die Rezepte der Freiburger alchemistischen Handschrift des ʿAbd al-Ǧabbār al-Hamaḏānī. Klaus Schwarz, 2013