Antonia Öksüzoğlu

Biography

Antonia Öksüzoğlu studied Arabic and Islamic Studies as well as Cultural and Social Anthropology in Münster and Istanbul. During this time, she lived in Damascus for several months, where she studied the people, culture and language. From 2014 to 2017, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies at the WWU Münster, where she also wrote her doctoral thesis on the discourse of spiritual medicine in Islam as a doctoral student of the Cluster of Excellence for Religion and Politics there. She also worked as a lecturer at the UniBW Munich. Her research interests lie in the areas of everyday and cultural history, the history of science and anthropological approaches to Islam. She conducts interdisciplinary research on the topic of space and religion. At BaFID, she was responsible for the focus on Islam and for the creation of educational materials.