Alumna, Rahina Muaza - 2012, has been awarded The Fritz-Steppat-Prize 2020 by the Association for the Advancement of the ZMO e.V., for her PhD dissertation "Qur´an Recitation and the Nudity of the Female Voice in Nigeria". The prize is awarded for an outstanding scientific text by a young researcher who has been supervised by a member of the Association for the Advancement of the ZMO.
Born in a small city called Jos, in northern Nigeria. Rahina's education began at a Qur'an madrasa and later a secular English school. She is a trained Qur’an reciter and has a BA in Islamic Studies from the University of Jos and an MA in Muslim Cultures from the Aga Khan University London. Rahina was recently awarded a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from Freie University Berlin for her work on on Female reciters of the Qur’an, vocal nudity and the formation of capital. Rahina is currently a postdoc associate at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin, Germany.
Rahina acknowledged the role that her MA from AKU-ISMC had played in this achievement; “My education at ISMC has paved the way for my doctoral studies and is still playing a great role in both my academic and non-academic endeavours. ISMC is a great place, and I am always grateful that I had the privilege of being there.”
Fritz Steppat (1923-2006) was one of the eminent scholars of present-oriented, interdisciplinary, and practice-oriented research on the Orient in the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1992 to 1993, he was the first provisional director of the Research Focus Modern Orient, the precursor institution to today’s Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient. In 1998, in the framework of the Fritz and Gertraud Steppat Gift, the ZMO received Fritz Steppat’s private research library.
Alumna, Rahina Muaza - 2012, has been awarded The Fritz-Steppat-Prize 2020 by the Association for the Advancement of the ZMO e.V., for her PhD dissertation "Qur´an Recitation and the Nudity of the Female Voice in Nigeria". The prize is awarded for an outstanding scientific text by a young researcher who has been supervised by a member of the Association for the Advancement of the ZMO.
Born in a small city called Jos, in northern Nigeria. Rahina's education began at a Qur'an madrasa and later a secular English school. She is a trained Qur’an reciter and has a BA in Islamic Studies from the University of Jos and an MA in Muslim Cultures from the Aga Khan University London. Rahina was recently awarded a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies from Freie University Berlin for her work on on Female reciters of the Qur’an, vocal nudity and the formation of capital. Rahina is currently a postdoc associate at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin, Germany.
Rahina acknowledged the role that her MA from AKU-ISMC had played in this achievement; “My education at ISMC has paved the way for my doctoral studies and is still playing a great role in both my academic and non-academic endeavours. ISMC is a great place, and I am always grateful that I had the privilege of being there.”
Fritz Steppat (1923-2006) was one of the eminent scholars of present-oriented, interdisciplinary, and practice-oriented research on the Orient in the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1992 to 1993, he was the first provisional director of the Research Focus Modern Orient, the precursor institution to today’s Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient. In 1998, in the framework of the Fritz and Gertraud Steppat Gift, the ZMO received Fritz Steppat’s private research library.
