Ahmed M. F. Abd-Elsalam joined the OIB in October 2021 as a research associate. He received his PhD in Islamic Studies from the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg with the dissertation „Das Verhältnis des beduinischen zum islamischen Recht in sozialem und historischem Kontext“ (The relationship between Bedouin and Islamic law in a social and historical context). At the OIB, he studies social and theological issues of Abrahamic interdependence concerning marriage and divorce as human production of theological and religious knowledge. His research focuses on past and current social and legal transformations in Muslim societies.Abd-Elsalam works at the OIB on social and theological issues of Abrahamic interdependence concerning marriage and divorce as human production of theological and religious knowledge. His project "Abrahamitic Interdependence: The Relations of Jewish to Islamic concerning Marriage and Divorce" deals with legal issues of marriage and divorce in Theory and Praxis.Previously, Abd-Elsalam worked as a docent and researcher of Islamic Theology at the Centre for Islamic Theology at the University of Münster (2012–2021) and as a visiting professor for Religious Comparative Studies at the Humboldt University Berlin (2019–2020). He also taught at Al-Azhar University (2011–2012) and the University of Innsbruck (2018–2022).
