Laura Hinrichsen

Supervisors: Professor Jeremy Johns; Doctor Umberto Bongianino

College affiliation: Wolfson College

Email: laura.hinrichsen@outlook.com

Education:

Current: DPhil Oriental Studies, Oxford University

(Gerda Henkel Scholar)

June 2016: MSt Islamic Art and Archaeology, Oxford University

(Yousef Jameel Scholar)

Aug 2015: MA Arabic Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

2012-2015: Student Assistant for the project “Corpus Coranicum“ (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences)

Research interests:

Maghrebi manuscripts, especially Ḥafṣid manuscript culture; collection history of Arabic manuscripts in Early Modern Europe; early manuscripts of the Qur'ān; early Mamluk metalware; material culture of the Mediterranean and the cross-cultural dimension of Islamic art; the art of the object

Current research:

DPhil project: " Looted Letters: Arts of the Book in Late Hafṣid Ifriqiya and the Reception of Arabic Manuscripts in Early Modern Europe" (Working title)