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Manolis Marudis Ulbricht
Research and Teaching Assistant
Room JK 31/305
14195 Berlin
Office hours
Currently on leave until April 2021 as part of a Feodor Lynen Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation – therefore there will be no office hours.
Current Responsibilities
Research and Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Berlin Byzantine Studies (on leave until 2021)
Postdoc in Byzantine Studies – Detailed CV Manolis [download]
Featured Biography
- Private Meeting with Pope em. Benedict XVI for the Presentation of the Ph.D. Thesis “Coranus Graecus” (Vatican, 20/12/2015) & Personal Correspondence regarding its Publication (2016/17)
- Private Audience with the Ecumenical Patriarch S. A. Bartholomew of Constantinople and Presentation of the Ph.D. Thesis “Coranus Graecus” (Istanbul, 13/03/2019)
- “Traveler between Religions on his research in Damascus and meeting Pope Benedict”, Radio Inteview with Monika Müller-Kroll in the Program “Profiles”, KCRW Berlin (26/12/2107)
- “Ein Plädoyer für Europa” [‘A Plea For Europe’], Magazin wir [p. 19] (Freie Universität Berlin, Summer 2017)
- Short Portrait in the Magazine wir [p. 41] (Freie Universität Berlin, Winter 2016/17)
- “Es war eine Entscheidung von Tag zu Tag” [‘A decision from day to day’ – About my Research in Syria (2010–2012)], Interview in the Newspaper Der Tagesspiegel (p. B6, 08/12/2012)
- “Zwischen Mönchen und Moscheen – zwei Jahre in Damaskus” [‘Among Monks and Mosques – Two Years in Damascus’], Field Report for the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (06/01/2014)
Vita
Education
Work Experience
Research Grants
Successful Funding
Awards
- GSCO Award 2017 (Society for Studying the Christian East) [Laudatio & Note of Thanks]
- Classical Islamic World Book Prize 2017 (Gorgias Press)
- Young Researcher’s Ph.D. Award 2017 of the Medievalists’ Society [Note of Thanks]
- Ernst Reuter Ph.D. Award 2016 (Freie Universität Berlin) [Note of Thanks]
- Honorary Mention in the framework of the Teaching Award 2016 (FU Berlin)
Berlin Byzantine Studies prides itself for effectively integrating the ongoing research conducted by the chair of Byzantine Studies into its students‘ regular curriculum in accordance with the Freie Universität Berlin‘s future-oriented institutional strategy. Through this research-orientated teaching, our students and the students of neighboring disciplines can be actively introduced to the questions arising from ongoing research projects in an interdisciplinary manner
Therefore, we regularly offer ‘research internships’ that undergraduate as well as masters students may attend. It is our goal to introduce our students to the methods and approaches of this future-orientated teaching as early as possible. A characteristic example of a sustainable combination of research and teaching at Berlin Byzantine Studies is the conceptualization of and successful application for the teaching project “The Digitization of Philology – Corpus Coranicum Christianum”. The project was designed by and for students and directly integrates the research into the regular teaching curriculum.
We foster this kind of interaction between researchers and students at all levels!
Manolis Ulbricht offers the following:
Byzantium and Early Islam
- Muslim-Christian Relations in Early Islam
- Byzantine Apologetics and Polemics against Islam
See Ph.D. Thesis: “Coranus Graecus. The Oldest Transmitted Translation of the Qur’ ān within the «Ἀνατροπὴ τοῦ Κορανίου» of Nicetas of Byzantium. Introduction, Text, Translation, Commentary”
Abstract, Table of Contents, Disputatio (14/07/2015), Exposé (2012)
Muslim Qur’anic Studies and Christian Translations of the Qur’an
- Greek Translations of the Qur’an and their Reception in the Latin Middle Ages
- Efforts for the Establishment of an Interdisciplinary Research Project “Corpus Coranicum Christianum”
Project Description: Corpus Coranicum Byzantinum, presented in the frame of the Disputatio (14/07/2015)
Byzantine Theology and Heresiology
- The Orthodoxy of Byzantium
- East Christian Heterodoxies
Byzantine Hymnology and Psalmody
- Music Theory of Byzantine Church Music
- Common Music Traditions in Near Eastern Liturgical Practices
Digital Humanities
- “Coranus Graecus. Die älteste überlieferte Koranübersetzung in der «Ἀνατροπὴ τοῦ Κορανίου» des Niketas von Byzanz. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung, Kommentar”, Ph.D. Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin 2015, in preparation for: Studi e testi (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana), Vatican
Editor
- Member of Series Editorial Board (et al.) of the Series Islamic History and Thougth (Gorgias Press)
- Member of Series Editorial Board (et al.) of the Series Studies in Classical & Late Antiquity Series (Gorgias Press)
Translations
From Spanish into German for The Fragments of the Greek Historians. Part V (BrillOnline):
- “Zenothemis” (FGrHist 2054)
- “Phileas von Athen” (FGrHist 2038)
- “Alexandros von Myndos” (FGrHist 2201)
- “Euthymenes von Massalia” (FGrHist 2207)
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«الترجمة الأولى للقرآن الكريم من القرن ٨ / ٩ م في سجال نيكيتاس البيزنطيّ (القرن ٩ م) مع الإسلام باسم تفنيد القرآن», Chronos – Révue d’histoire de l’Université de Balamand/Lebanon, No. 25 (2012), pp. 33–58
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“Coranus Graecus. The Greek Translation of the Qur’an” [in preparation]
Contributions
- “Никита Византийский: Греческий перевод Корана (Coranus Graecus), использованный Н. В.”, Православная энциклопедия [The Orthodox Encyclopedia], vol. 49, Moscow 2018, pp. 553–554
- “Euthymios, the monk”, Christian-Muslim-Relation, vol. 3, Leiden (Brill), 2011, pp. 523–531
- “Nicetas of Byzantium”, Christian-Muslim Relations. A Reader (600-1500), ed. David Thomas [in preparation]
- “John of Damascus”, Christian-Muslim Relations. A Reader (600-1500), ed. David Thomas [in preparation]
- “Euthymios Monachos”, Lexikon Byzantinischer Autoren, ed. Alexander Riehle, et. al. [submitted]
- “Nicetas of Byzantium”, Lexikon Byzantinischer Autoren, ed. Alexander Riehle, et. al. [submitted]
Reviews
- D. Pachurka: Ricoldus de Monte Crucis. Tractatus seu disputatio contra Saracenos et Alchoranum [Corpus Islamo-Christianum, Series Latina, vol. 9], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2016, in: Journal of Transcultural Medieval Studies, vol. 5.2 (2018), Berlin/Boston, pp. 413–419
- R. Glei/R. Tottoli: Ludovico Marracci at work. The evolution of his Latin translation of the Qurʾān in the light of his newly discovered manuscripts. With an edition and a comparative linguistic analysis of Sura 18 [Corpus Islamo-Christianum, Series Arabica-Latina, vol. 1], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2016, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, vol. 112.4–5 (2017), Berlin/Boston (De Gruyter), pp. 382–387
- A. Bakhou: Defending Christian Faith. The Fifth Part of the Christian Apology of Gerasimus, Berlin et. al.: De Gruyter 2015, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung, vol. 142.11 (2017), Leipzig (Evangelische Verlagsanstalt), col. 1211–1213
- K. Förstel: Schriften zum Islam von Arethas und Euthymios Zigabenos und Fragmente der griechischen Koranübersetzung. Griechisch-deutsche Textausgabe [Corpus Islamo-Christianum, Series Graeca, vol. 7], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2009, in: Journal of Religious and Cultural Studies, vol. 62.4 (2010), Leiden (Brill), pp. 394–397
Reports
- Blog Report for the International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) by Bert Jacobs on the International Workshop “Preliminary Considerations on the Corpus Coranicum Christianum. The Quran in Translation – A Survey of the State-of-the-Art”, 28/01/2019
- “New Insights into Early Islamic Historiography: A Substantial Conference Report (Göttingen, 25–26 June 2015)”, by Yoones Dehghani Farsani and Jens Scheiner with contributions by Mehmetcan Akpınar, Antoine Borrut, Yoones Dehghani Farsani, Fred M. Donner, Georg Leube, Ilkka Lindstedt, Masoud Sadeghi, Jens Scheiner, Mónika Schönléber, Isabel Toral-Nieho, Manolis Ulbricht, Conference Proceedings of the International Workshop Fresh Perspectives on Early Muslim Historiography, Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā, vol. 25 (2017), pp. 149–177 (see here)
- “The Byzantine translation of the Qurʾān from the eighth/ninth century CE and its role in the polemic of Nicetas of Byzantium”, Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies Newsletter No. 8, 07/2014, pp. 5–6
- Conference Proceedings: “أوجه المعرفة القرآنية: لقاء الفيلولوجيا واللاهوت” of the International Conference Aspects of Qur’anic Scholarship – Philology meets Theology (23–25/09/2016; see here), Newspaper al-Ḥayāt, 22/10/2016
- Conference Proceedings of the International PhD and post-doctoral training school The Dynamic Middle Ages (02–05/10/2012; see here), Clio-online, in: H-Soz-u-Kult, 14/12/2012