Representative of OIB in Cairo
Since May 2022, Yasmin Amin works at the Orient-Institut Beirut as Representative of the Orient-Instituts Beirut (Max-Weber-Stiftung) in Cairo.
She is an Egyptian-German who holds a BA in Business Administration, a PGD and an MA in Islamic Studies, all three from the American University in Cairo. She received her PhD in Islamic Studies from Exeter University’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies researching ‘Humour and Laughter in the Ḥadīth’. Her research covers various aspects of gender issues, early Muslim society and culture as well as the original texts of Islamic history, law and Hadith.
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Peer-reviewed Books
Co-translation with Nesrin Amin of “The Sorrowful Muslim’s Guide”, originally titled “Dalīl al-Muslim al-Ḥazīn ila Muqtaḍa al-Sulūk fī-l-qarn al-ʿishrīn” by Hussein Amin. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press in collaboration with the Agha Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations, 2018. Part of the series: ‘In Translation: Modern Muslim Thinkers.‘
Co-edited with Nevin Reda, “Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice: Processes of Canonization, Subversion and Change.” Toronto: McGill Queen’s University Press, 2020
“Comedy and Humour in the Muslim World: Contemporary Islamic Contexts“ edited Bernard Schweizer, Lina Molokotos-Liederman with Yasmin Amin. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 202
Peer-reviewed Chapters in Multi-author Books
“Early Muslim Women as Moral Paragons in Classical Islamic Literature: Al- Mubashsharāt bi-l-janna” in Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women, edited by Asma Afsaruddin. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
“Your Wife Enjoys Rights Over You’ or Does She? Marriage in the Hadith” in Justice and Beauty in Muslim Marriages: Between Ethics and Law, edityed by Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Mulki Al-Sharmani, Jana Rumminger and Sarah Marsso. London: Oneworld Publications, 2022
“Uses (or Abuses?) of the Qur’an in Arabic Jocular Literature” in Comedy and Humour in the Muslim World: Contemporary Islamic Contexts, edited by Bernard Schweizer, Lina Molokotos-Liederman with Yasmin Amin. Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2022.
“A Laughing God, between Sunni Approval and Shi’ite Rejection” in Humour in the Beginning edited by Roald Dijkstra and Paul van der Velde. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 2022.
“Is the application of modern humour theories on historical cases a joke?” in Humour in the Beginning edited by Roald Dijkstra and Paul van der Velde. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 2022.
“Umm Salamah: A Female Authority Legitimating the Authorities.” In Women's Religious Authority in Shiism, edited by Devin Stewart & Mirjam Künkler. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 20251.
“Revisiting the Issue of Minor Marriages: Multi-disciplinary Ijtihād on Contemporary Ethical Problems.” In “Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice: Processes of Canonization, Subversion and Change,” edited by Nevin Reda & Yasmin Amin. Toronto: McGill Queen’s University Press, 2020.
“Umm Salama’s contributions: Qur’ān, Ḥadīth, and Early Muslim History as Sources for Gender Justice.” In Muslim Women and Gender Justice: Concepts, Sources, and Histories, edited by Juliane Hammer & Dina El Omari. London: Routledge, 2019.
“Peeling Onions, Layer by Layer - A Journey with Two Bulbs through the Islamic World and its Literature.” In Insatiable Appetite: Food as a Cultural Signifier, edited by Julia Hauser, Bilal Orfali & Kirill Dmitriev. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
Articles in Peer-reviewed Journals
"Frauen als Bildungsträgerinnen im Islam – Emanzipiertes Denken in patriarchalen Traditionen" in Religionen Unterwegs vol 26, Issue 4, 2020, pp. 18- 22
Encyclopaedia Entries
“Aḥād." In Islam: A Worldwide Encyclopedia, edited by Cenap Çakmak. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2017.
"al-Bukhārī." In Islam: A Worldwide Encyclopedia, edited by Cenap Çakmak. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2017.
"al-Jāḥiẓ." In Islam: A Worldwide Encyclopedia, edited by Cenap Çakmak. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2017.
"Bidʿa." In Islam: A Worldwide Encyclopedia, edited by Cenap Çakmak. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2017.
"Ikhwān al-Ṣafā." In Islam: A Worldwide Encyclopedia, edited by Cenap Çakmak. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2017.
"Zamzam." In Islam: A Worldwide Encyclopedia, edited by Cenap Çakmak. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO/Greenwood Press, 2017.
"Sexuality." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Science and Technology in Islam, edited by Ibrahim Kalin, 244-246. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
"Ṭabaqāt." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, edited by Natana J. DeLong-Bas, 325-326. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
"The Prophet's Wives." In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, edited by Natana J. DeLong-Bas, 426-429. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
