Dr. des. Nadine Löhr
Research Associate
Short Curriculum Vitae
General Information:
Nadine Löhr is a researcher and publications manager at the Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt, where she serves as editor of the Journal for the History of Arabic-Islamic Sciences. Her research focuses on the transmission of astronomical and astrological knowledge in the Islamicate world, with particular emphasis on Arabic manuscripts, commentary traditions, and marginal annotations. Her PhD dissertation examined the Arabic manuscript transmission of Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, tracing its reception from the early Islamic period to the Ottoman era. At Goethe University, she coordinates an initiative to document and study Arabic manuscripts circulating through the contemporary antiquarian book trade.
Employment:
- since 2026: Researcher and Publications Manager (Institute for the History of Arabic-Islamic Sciences)
- 2024-2025: Researcher at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt (Jewish-Muslim Relations)
- 2020-2023: Doctoral Researcher at Bibliotheca Arabica (Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
- 2019-2021: Research Associate at Communities of Knowledge (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
- 2019: Coordinator of the DAAD Project “Violence, Forced Migration and Exile: Trauma in the Arab World and in Germany”
- 2019: Research Assistant at the Historical Commission (at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
- 2017-2019: Research Fellow, DAAD project “Violence, Forced Migration and Exile: Trauma in the Arab World and in Germany"
- 2014-2018: Research Assistant: “Arab Mass Media and (trans-) Regional Cultures”, Institute for Near and Middle Eastern Studies
- 2018: Master's Degree in Near and Middle Eastern Studies (Thesis: "Astronomical Education in 15th-Century Samarqand")
Selected Publications
- “Reading Ptolemy’s Almagest in the Ilkhanate. Remarks on Marginalia in Books I and II of Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī’s Taḥrīr al-Majisṭī”, in: The Mongols’Baghdad: Knowledge Transmission through Manuscript Cultures before and after the Conquest, Medieval Worlds 22 (2/2025), Walter Pohl und Nina Mirnig (Hgg.), Gastherausgeber: Bruno De Nicola und Nadine Löhr, pp. 227-254.
- “Annotation Systems and Symbols in Arabic Manuscripts on Astral Sciences”, in: Margins Matter, Stefanie Brinkmann (Hg.), Leiden: 2025, pp. 151-187.
- “Von vorteilhaften Planetenkonstellationen und Finsternissen. Ein osmanisches Kalenderwerk für Ägypten“, in: Der Orient in Gotha, Feras Krimsti (Hg.), Gotha: 2024, pp. 66-67.
- "Off the Record – On Studying Lost Arabic Texts and their Networks" in: Medieval Worlds 18 (2/2023), pp. 219-245.
- "Bahāʾ al-Dīn Abū Muḥammad al-Ḫaraqī: al-Tabṣira fī ʿilm al-hayʾa", in: Islam in Europa. 1000-1250, Katalog zur Ausstellung vom 7. September 2022 bis 12. Februar 2023 im Dommuseum Hildesheim (ed. Claudia Höhl, Felx Prinz et al.), pp. 132-136.