Vicky Ziegler

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Vicky Ziegler
Department of Islamic Studies and Near and Middle Eastern Languages
E-Mail: vziegler@hotmail.de

Research

Titel of Ph.D. thesis: In the Garden of Alchemy: A Tradition-historical Analysis of the Arabic Alchemical Book Kitāb ar-Rauḍa with German Translation and Critical Edition.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eva Orthmann

  • The tongues of stones: diversity of interlocutions in Arabic alchemical writings, in: Asiatische Studien – Études Asiatiques 75, 2 (2021), pp. 449–483.       

  • Geheimnisse und ihre Wahrung in der arabischen Alchemie: Okkultes im Werk ‘Die Prahlerei der Steine’ des Andalusiers Maslama ibn Qāsim al-Qurṭubī, in: Conermann, S., Wolter, H. and M. Quiering (eds.): Geheimnis und Verborgenes im Mittelalter: Funktion, Wirkung und Spannungsfelder von okkultem Wissen, verborgenen Räumen und magischen Gegenständen, Berlin & Boston: De Gruyter 2021 (Das Mittelalter: Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung, Beihefte, Vol. 15).

  • The Boasting of Stones: An Alchemical Literary Debate by the Andalusian Alchemist Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī, Second Eurasian Doctoral Colloquium 2018, University of Bonn
  • Literary aspects in ‘Garden of the Divine, Noble and Secret Art’ and ‘Boasting of Stones’ by the Andalusian alchemist Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī, Gotha manuscript workshop: Alchemy in the Islamicate world 2018, Gotha Research Library
  • The Garden of the Devine, Noble and Secret Art: An Alchemical Work of the Andalusian Maslama b. Qāsim al-Qurṭubī, 33rd German Congress of Orientalists 2017, University of Jena 
  • 04/2015-01/2020 Lectureship at the Thomas-Institute of the University of Cologne: Classical Arabic for Philosophy Students

Arabic alchemy, Arabic philosophy, Syrian dialect

10/2014-12/2021 PhD Student in the doctorate programme Bonn International Graduate School – Oriental and Asian Studies (BIGS-OAS), grade: summa cum laude
10/2012-07/2014 Master of Arts (M.A.) in Conference Interpreting Arabic (-German) at the University of Leipzig, grade: 1,5 (very good)
10/2011-12/2013 Master of Arts (M.A.) in Arabic Studies at the University of Leipzig, grade: 1,1 (very good)
10/2007-07/2011 Bachelor of Arts (M.A.) in Arabic Studies at the University of Leipzig, grade: 1,5 (very good)