Contact
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies
Mühlweg 15
Halle (Saale)
D-06114
Germany
ABOUT
Stefan Maneval holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from Freie Universität Berlin. His thesis on public and private spaces in the Saudi city of Jiddah in the twentieth century won the DAVO dissertation prize 2016 for the best PhD thesis on the contemporary Middle East submitted at a German university in 2015. Since August 2018, Stefan Maneval is based at the Department of Oriental Studies at Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, where he investigates contemporary Lebanese Theology of Religions. For his postdoctoral research project he received a grant from the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Previously, he received grants and scholarships from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Max Weber Foundation/Orient-Institut Beirut, and Friedrich Ebert Foundation. His publications include articles on contemporary Saudi politics and society, cultural heritage and the art scene in Saudi Arabia, social theory, as well as a co-edited a book on the diversity of Muslim everyday life and material culture (Muslim Matter, Berlin 2016).
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Islamic Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Urban Studies
History Of Architecture
Gender/Women's Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Saudi Arabia
Lebanon
All Middle East
Specialties
Theology Of Religions
Material Culture
Public & Private Space, The Public Sphere
Languages
German (native)
English (fluent)
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
Norwegian (fluent)
Education
DrPH
| 2015
| Islamic Studies
| Freie Universität Berlin
MA
| 2010
| Islamic Studies
| Freie Universität Berlin
Abstracts
Shopping in Jeddah: Changing Modes of Gender Segregation in Saudi Arabian Spaces of Consumption
