Freie Theologische Hochschule Gießen

I. Biographie

II. Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Religionsanthropologie
• Anthropologie des Islam
• Sufismus
• Islamische Theologie/Theosophie
• Gemeindegründung und Gemeindewachstum

III. Publikationen in Auswahl

Bücher

• The Shaping Shaikh: The Role of the Shaikh in Lived Islam among Sufis in Bosnia and Herzegovina Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020
• Charismatic Leadership in Islam: The Powerful Position of Sufi Shaikhs in Bosnia Oxford, UK: Regnum Books International, 2019

Aufsätze

• The Doctrine of Tawḥīd and its Practical Manifestation by a Living Sufi Practitioner, in: Teosofia: Indonesian Journal of Islamic Mysticism, 2021, 10/1: 1-20
• Externalizing Faith: Countering Individualism through an Embodied Emphasis, in: Studia Liturgica, 2021, 51/1: 86-102
• Theology in action: gaining interdisciplinary insights from a Sufi perspective, in: Practical Theology, 2020 13/5, 452-465
• Stretching the Boundaries: The Uniqueness of Charismatic Leadership in the Context of Sufism, in: Insights into Sufism: Voices from the Heart, eds. Ruth J. Nicholls & Peter G. Riddell, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020, 27-46
• Die in Europa einheimischen Muslime von Bosnien und Herzegowina: Eine Jahrhunderte alte autochthone islamische Tradition im Herzen Europas, in: Islam und christlicher Glaube / Islam and Christianity 2, 2019, 5-19
• The native European Muslims of Bosnia and Herzegovina: A century-old autochthonous Islamic tradition in the heart of Europe, in: Islam und christlicher Glaube / Islam and Christianity 2, 2019, 20-32
• Dialogue Beyond Belief: The Role of Participation in Religious Practices as the Meeting Point for Muslim Christian Encounter in: Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies, July 2019 36/3, 196-209
• Longing for the Transcendent: The Role of Love in Islamic Mysticism with special reference to al-Ghazālī and Ibn al-ʿArabī, in: Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies 33/2, 2016, 99-109
• Transcendentna realnost u procesu pomirenja: Intelektualni vidici međureligijskih odnosa u svijetuˮ (The Transcendent Reality in the Process of Reconcilliation: Intellectual Perspectives of Interreligious Relationships in theWorld), in Forum Bosnae 74/75, 2016, 160-164
• Uloga religije u procesu iscjeljenja i izgradnji mira (The Role of Religon in the Process of Reconcilliation and the Contruction of Peace), in: Zbornik radova trauma i pomirenje (Collection of Papers for Trauma and Reconciliation), Sarajevo: Kruh Sv. Ante 2009, 15-23

Rezensionen

• Anne Koch and Katherina Wilkens, ed., „The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Cultural and Cognitive Aesthetics of Religion,” in Religious Studies Review, March 2021 47/1: 102
• Stefan Schweyer, Freikirchliche Gottesdienste, Empirische Analysen und theologische Reflexionen, Leipzig: EVA, 2020, in: AfeT Rezensionen, 1/2021
• Peter Zimmerling, „Mitten im Gelärm das innere Schweigen bewahren. Aspekte mystischer Spiritualität im Protestantismus“, Karlsruhe: 2019, in AfeT Rezensionen, 2/2020
• Aaron J. Ghiloni, “Islam as Education: Pedagogies of Pilgrimage, Prophecy, and Jihad”, in Practical Theology, 2020 13/4, 441-442
• Narry F Santos and Mark Naylor, ed., “Mission and Evangelism in a Secularizing World: Academy, Agency, and Assembly Perspectives from Canada,” in Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies Sage Publications, 2020 37/2, 165–166
• Effective Discipling in Muslim Communities, in: Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies Sage Publications 34/3, 2017, 240-242
• Thinking Biblically about Islam, in: Transformation: An International Journal of Holistic Mission Studies Sage Publications 33/4, 2016, 315-316

IV. Mitgliedschaften

• Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, UK
• Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics, UK
• Yale-Edinburgh Group on World Christianity and the History of Mission
• Arbeitskreis für evangelikale Theologie (AfeT): Facharbeitsgruppe Praktische Theologie