Dr. Ghassan El Masri
Research:
- Post-doctoral research in Interfaith Relations, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (2020-Current)
- Post-doctoral research in Quranic Studies, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany (2104-2018)
With Corpus Coranicum
- Doctorate degree in Arabic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany (2011)
Teaching Experience:
- Acting Chair of Arabic Studies (Seminar für Arabistik), Freie Universität Berlin (2018, 2024-2025)
- Lecturer in Arabic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin (2008-Current)
Other Positions:
- Program Coordinator - Network of Centres for Christian-Muslim Relations, at Scholar Leaders by Templeton Religion Trust, USA (2024-Current)
- Academic Coordinator - European Research Council - Project: Rediscovering Theological Rationalism in the Medieval World of Islam, Berlin (2012-2013)
- Consultant, GMP Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner, Berlin (2014 - Freelance), Designer of Noble Quran Oasis, Medina, KSA.
- Editor/Translator at the Mideast Mirror, London, (2002-2016)
Services:
- Member of the Board of Trustees, The Royal Institute for Interfaith Studies, Amman, Jordan.
- Member of the Editorial Board, Key Concepts in Interreligious Discourses – De Gruyter.
- Member, German-Arab Friendship Society, DAFG e. V.
- Member, The Jordanian German Friendship Society, DJG e. V.
- Member, Euro Mediterranean Arab Association, EMA e. V.
Awards:
- International Design Ideas Competition: The Nobel Quran Oasis Al Madinah Al Munawwarah Development Authority, 2014.
- Ideenwettbewerb Juniorforum, Dahlem Humanities Center, Berlin, 2011.
- Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, PhD Scholar, 2006–2010, Germany.
- Dean of Students Funding Guarantee at the University of Calgary, 2000–2002, Canada.
- Faculty of Graduate Studies Research Scholarships at the University of Calgary, 2001–2002, Canada.
- Graduate Scholarship 1996–1998, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
- Undergraduate Scholarship, 1995–1996, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
- Dean’s Honor’s List, 1994–1998, American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
Publications:
- Book: The Semantics of Qurʾanic Language: al-Ākhira, (Leiden, 2020).
- With Christian Darles, et al. "Contribution à une meilleure compréhension de l’histoire de la Digue de Maʾrib au Yémen." Regards croisés d’Orient et d’Occident. Les barrages dans l’Antiquité tardive. (Orient & Méditerranée. Archéologie, 14). Paris: Éditions de Boccard (2013): 9-70.
- "The Afterlife of Arab-Nationalism and the Sunnī Messiah: The Omens." Jennifer Wasmuth (Hg.), Fundamentalism, (Leiden, 2021).
- "The European Katechon: A Note on the Political Theology of Present-day Christian–Muslim Engagement." Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 33.4 (2022): 377-402.
- Maʾsal: what the ṭalal would tell us." Qur'ānic Studies Today. (Routledge, 2016). 261-273.
- "The Etymological Path to Moral Meaning: Adam and the Names." Journal of Islamic Ethics 5.1-2 (2021): 223-249.
- "The Qurʾan and the Character of Pre-Islamic Poetry: The Dāliyya of al-Aswad b. Yaʿfur al-Nahshalī (d. ca. 600 CE)." The Qurʾan and Adab. The Shaping of Literary Tradition in Classical Islam (Oxford, 2017): 93-135.
As well as unpublished commissioned consultancies for Jordan and GCC countries.
Languages:
Native Arabic and fluent command of English, French and German.