Dr. Yasemin Gökpınar
Postdoc
Office address:
Professor-Huber-Platz 1
Room 3.27
80539 Munich
Research interests
- Habilitation project: “Transcultural History of Music in the Islamicate World. Al-Fārābī’s Kitāb al-Mūsīqī al-kabīr as a Graeco-Arabic Case Study” (Vienna).
- Central research topics: History of Knowledge in a transcultural perspective with focus on music, Music as mathematical science within the history of Greek-Arabic sciences and translations, court culture and literature in classical Islam, Arabic manuscript studies and editions, literature of Nahḍa; Arabic exile literature in contemporary Germany.
- Teaching topics: Arabic literature and music culture in history and present, history of classical Islam, history of sciences, Arabic manuscript studies and editions.
- International experiences in Austria (6 years), Egypt (2 semesters), Turkey, Oman, Tunisia, the Netherlands, France, England, USA (Yale), Morocco and Spain.
Personal Information
- seit 04/2026
- My own PostDoc project „al-Urmawī’s Afterlife: Migrating Music Manuscripts in Arabic and Persian“ at the Cluster of Excellence „Cross-Cultural Philology“, LMU Munich
- 04/2025 – 09/2025
- Visiting Professor for Islamic Foundations of Believe and Philosophy (100%), Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology (BIT), HU Berlin.
- 10/2023 – 03/2025
- Acting Professor for Islamic Studies (50%) at the Asia-Africa-Institute,
Dep. of the History and Culture of the Middle East, University of Hamburg. - 10/2018 – 08/2024
- Research Associate (50%) in the ERC-Project “Ancient Music Beyond Hellenisation (AMBH)” (PI: PD Dr. Stefan Hagel) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), Vienna
- 04/2018 – 03/2026
10/23 – 10/24 and 04/25 – 09/25 on leave - “Executive Assistant Professor” (German: “geschäftsführende Assistentin”) (50%) at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Ruhr University Bochum, (RUB) as Academic Councellor for a fixed term.
- WS 2016/17 – WS 2017/18
- Lecturer at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, RUB.
- 06/2015 – 09/2018
- Research Associate at the Chair of the Culture and Society of Islam in History and the Present, Institute of Islamic Cultural and Religious Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt.
- 02/2013 – 03/2015
- Research Assistant at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, RUB): Work for the ERC project “Glossarium Graeco-Arabicum” (Greek-Arabic lexical database, PI: Prof. em. Dr Gerhard Endreß).
Ongoing projects
- Al-Urmawī’s Afterlife: Migrating Music Manuscripts in Arabic and Persian, Exzellenzcluster „Cross-Cultural Philology“, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich.
- Transcultural History of Music in the Islamicate World. Al-Fārābī’s Kitāb al-Mūsīqī al-kabīr as a Graeco-Arabic Case Study. With Edition and Translation.
- Katalog zu den Manuskripten in arabischer Schrift an der Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg, Frankfurt am Main.
Publications
- Der ṭarab der Sängersklavinnen. Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār von Ibn Faḍlallāh al-ʿUmarī (gest. 749/1349): Textkritische Edition des 10. Kapitels Ahl ʿilm al-mūsīqī mit kommentierter Übersetzung Würzburg: Ergon, 2021. DOI: doi.org/10.5771/9783956508202.
- Höfische Musikkultur im klassischen Islam. Ibn Faḍlallāh al‑ʿUmarī (gest. 749/ 1349) über die dichterische und musikalische Kunst der Sängersklavinnen, Islamic History and Civilisation. Studies and Texts, vol. 173, Leiden: Brill, 2020 (Diss. Univ. Bochum).
- Muḥammad al‑Muwailiḥī: Die Erzählung des ʿĪsā ibn Hišām: die zweite Reise, aus dem Arabischen übers. v. Yasemin Gökpinar und Kameran Hudsch [mit einer Einleitung und Kommentar von Yasemin Gökpinar]. Muslimische Welten. Würzburg: Ergon, 2014.
- Thematic Issue: Musik im Islam, Frankfurter Zeitschrift für islamisch-theologische Studien 7 (2024).
- Special Issue: Musical Sources and Theories from Ancient Greece to the Ottoman Period, Oriens 51.1-2 (2023). https://brill.com/view/journals/orie/51/1-2/orie.51.issue-1-2.xml.
- With Gökpınar, Yasemin. Musical Sources and Theories from Ancient Greece to the Ottoman Period: Introduction, Oriens 51.1-2 (2023), 1-13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18778372-12340028.
- „Abū Naṣr Muḥammad al-Fārābī“. In Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti (DEUMM) Online. Ed. by Antonio Baldassarre und Daniela Castaldo. New York: RILM (accepted).
- „Musikautomaten“. In Antikenrezeption in der arabisch-islamischen Welt 7. – 13. Jh. Der Neue Pauly. Suppl. 14. Hrsg. von Cleophea Ferrari und Lutz Edzard. Heidelberg: Metzler (accepted).
- “Tenth Century CE. Al-Fārābī explains the kinds of auditory perception needed to tune open string instruments.” In: Thinking Music: Global Sources for the History of Music Theory. Ed. by Thomas Christensen, Lester Zhuqing Hu, Carmel Raz. University of Chicago's Online Publication Service (accepted).
- „Ersatzlos gestrichen? Wie al-Urmawī (gest. 1294) al-Fārābīs (gest. 950) Großes Buch über Musik ablöste“. In ersetzlich / unersetzlich. Gesellschaftliche Aushandlungen, ästhetische Strategien und narrative Rahmungen von Substitutionen. Hrsg. v. Leonid Malec, Laura Völz, Ramona Berbercuma. Schriftenreihe der Isa Lohmann-Siems Stiftung, Bd. 19. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer, 2026, 151-72.
- “Greek Maths for Arabic Music. Al-Fārābī Adapting Ancient Theory.” Studia Graeco-Arabica 15 (2025), 99-119.
- “Musik in der Koranexegese.” Frankfurter Zeitschrift für islamisch-theologische Studien 7 (2024), 39-89.
- “Musik im Islam” in WiReLex. Das Wissenschaftlich-Religionspädagogische Lexikon im Internet, 2024, https://doi.org/10.23768/wirelex.400029.
- “Some Notes on Woodwind Instruments in al‑Fārābī’s Kitāb al‑Mūsīqī al‑kabīr.” Journal of Music Archaeology 1 (2023), 185-200. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1553/JMA-001-08.
- “(Not at once) A love relationship: Arabic Manuscripts and Their Editions.” KODEX, 8 (2018), 7-22.
- “Ibn Faḍlallāh al-ʿUmarī: Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār, Bd. X.” In: Lexikon. Schriften über Musik, Band 3 (in Vorbereitung): Musikästhetik in globaler Perspektive / Music aesthetics in global perspective. Ed. by Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann und Felix Wörner, Kassel: Bärenreiter/Metzler (submitted 2016, printing delayed due to death of the former co-editor Hartmut Grimm).
- “Islamische und gregorianische Musik – Wurzeln und (Wechsel?-) Wirkungen.” In: Philipp Reichling, Meret Strothmann (Eds.): Religion für die Sinne, Religion for the Senses, Oberhausen: Athena, 2016, 37-49.
- “Devot oder machtvoll? Das Spiel mit Körper und Stimme der Sängersklavinnen im arabisch-islamischen Mittelalter.” In: Susanne Kurz, Claudia Preckel, Stefan Reichmuth (Eds.): Muslim Bodies. Body, Sexuality and Medicine in Muslim Societies. Körper, Sexualität und Medizin in muslimischen Gesellschaften. Religionswissenschaft: Forschung und Wissenschaft, Bd. 14. Münster: LIT, 2016, 239-258.
- Hayat Qara: “Musik, Kultur und Gesellschaft in Marokko: Ibrāhīm at‑Tādilī ar‑Ribāṭī und seine Sicht auf die andalusische Musik, übers. und bearb. von Yasemin Gökpinar.” Oriens 41 (2013), 159-183.