Prof. Dr. Hatem Elliesie, MLE

Chair

  • Professor of Islamic Law at Leipzig University
  • Chair of the Committee since 2023
  • Vice Chair of the Committee 2009–2023
  • Member of the Committee since 2005
  • Member of the Board of Trustees 2003–2005
  • Member of GAIR since 1998
  • Founding member of the Newsletter Working Group (2008), the Internet Working Group (2009) and the Islamic Finance Working Group (2017)
  • Organised and chaired several annual conferences
  • Editor in Chief of the Zeitschrift Recht & Islam / Journal of Law & Islam
  • Editor of the volume ‘Beiträge zum Islamischen Recht VII: Islam und Menschenrechte’ [Islam and Human Rights] (2010)
  • Joint editor of the Festschriften in honour of Hans-Georg Ebert (2018) and Omaia Elwan (2024), and of the conference volumes ‘Islamische Normen in der Moderne zwischen Text und Kontext’ (2019) and ‘Migration und Heimatrecht: Herausforderungen muslimisch geprägter Zuwanderung nach Deutschland’ (2022)

Dr. des. Beate Anam

Vice Chair

PD Dr. Imen Gallala-Arndt

  • Acting Professor of Islamic Law at the University of Münster (2024–2025), of Islamic Studies at the University of Hamburg (2023) and of Islamic Law at the University of Tübingen (2020)
  • Member of GAIR since 2023
  • Member of the Committee since 2023
  • Habilitation (2024) at the School of Law, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law (Research Group: Changes in God’s Law)
  • Doctorate at Heidelberg University
  • Studied law in Tunisia and Heidelberg

Prof. Dr. Serdar Kurnaz

  • Professor of Islamic Law at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
  • Member of GAIR since 2019
  • Member of the Committee since 2023
  • Habilitation (2020) in Islamic Religious Studies at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • 2016–2019 Junior Professor of Islamic Theology with a focus on Islamic law and ethics at the Academy of World Religions, University of Hamburg
  • 2015–2016 Director at the Swiss Centre for Islam and Society, University of Fribourg (Switzerland)
  • Doctorate in Islamic Studies in Frankfurt am Main
  • Studied Islamic religion, Jewish and Christian religious studies and education at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main

Dr. Hadil Lababidi

Abdelghafar Salim

Prof. Dr. Dr. Peter Scholz