Die Welt des Islams focuses on the history and culture of the Islamic world from the eighteenth century to the present. The journal gives special emphasis to literature and provides its large international readership with articles in English, French and German. Highly descriptive essays are accompanied by copious notes, and extensive book reviews are authored by specialists, offering a broad scholarly view of the field of Islam.
Published since 1951, Die Welt des Islams is found in the world’s major research libraries. The journal is unrivalled in its field and an essential resource for those who wish to stay on top of their discipline.

The Heisenberg Professorship of Religious Studies with a focus on Religious Media Practices in the Department of Religious Studies systematically examines – in both research and teaching - the interplay of religion and media. Specifically, we focus on historical and contemporary processes of convergence between religious and media practices in Islamic intellectual history and Muslim religiosity. Texts, images, and videos of contemporary Muslim actors on social media platforms and their reception are currently a particular focus.

As part of the Department of Religious Studies, we apply socio-cultural approaches to better understand how religious knowledge is produced, mediated, and negotiated through speech, text, and image, scrutinize performative aspects of religious practices, examine lived religion in local and global interrelationships, investigate processes of communitarisation and social identity formation, and examine religious authority.