Degrees:
Ph.D., Yale Univ.
M.Phil., Yale Univ.
B.A., Univ. of Leipzig
Mareike Koertner earned her B.A. in Political Science and Arabic Studies from the University of Leipzig, Germany in 2008 and received a M.Phil. (2012) and Ph.D. (2014) in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Yale University. Her educational journey also led her to the American University in Cairo, Egypt, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and traditional teachers in Egypt, Syria, and Yemen.
A passionate teacher, she considers teaching primarily as the fostering of an innate sense of curiosity and desire to learn that last well beyond the time spent in class. In an age, in which Islam is often viewed through the lens of contemporary events and conflicts, she wants to give students a sense of the religion of Islam, its history, vibrant civilizations, massive empires, and abiding social institutions throughout the fifteen centuries since its inception. Therefore, her courses do not just focus on Muslim beliefs, rituals and practice but also engage students in the study of the history, politics, and economy, art and literature, philosophy and science of the Islamic civilizations.
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Survey of Islamic Civilization
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Islam in America
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Modern Islamic Movements
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Sufism
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Qur’an and Hadith
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Islamic literature
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Prophetic Tradition (Hadith) and Biography (Sira)
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Intellectual history of medieval Islam, particularly epistemological discourses on prophecy
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Interface of religious and literary texts
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Epistemological discourses on prophecy
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Interaction and intellectual exchanges between Jews, Christians and Muslims in the medieval Near East
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- “The Speaking Wolf and the Mistaken Orientalist–Re-Evaluating an Early ?adith,” Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations Roundtable, Yale University, New Haven, CT, April 24, 2014.
- “Dala’il al-Nubuwa–Proofs of Prophecy between ?adith and Theology.” 47th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, New Orleans, LA, October 12, 2013.
- “Dala’il al-Nubuwa–Beweise des Prophetentums bei den ?adith-Gelehrten.” 32. Deutscher Orientalistentag, Münster, Germany, September 27, 2013.
- “Scholarship or Folklore? A Comparison of the Earliest Sources on the Prophet’s Life, ‘Urwa b. al-Zubayr and Wahb b. Munabbih.” 223rd Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Portland, OR, March 16, 2013.
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- The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2014-2015 (declined).
- Theron Rockwell Field Prize, Yale University (university-wide prize awarded for contributions in poetry, literature, or religion), 2013.
- John Spaulding Fellowship, Yale University, 2012-2013.
- Richard J. Franke Fellowship, Yale University, 2011-2012.
- Beinecke Pre-Prospectus Summer Fellowship, Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Yale University, 2011.
- Erasmus Mundus Global Studies Exchange, U.C. Santa Barbara, 2006-2007.
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