Main Fields of Research:

PIL, International and National Private Law of Islamic Countries with emphasis on the Near and Middle East, Iran and Afghanistan

Academic Career:

Born 1971 in Teheran/Iran; 1989-95 Legal studies Vienna and Innsbruck/Austria; 1997-98 Master of International Business Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies University of London/Great Britain; 1999 Conferral of doctorate at the University of Innsbruck, Dissertation Topic: "The Concept of Freedom of Contract in Islamic and Western Legal Cultures"; 2000-01 Arabic language studies at the University of Damascus/Syria. 2016 post-doctorate thesis (Habilitation) at the University of Hamburg. Since 2000 research fellow responsible for the Law of Islamic Countries at the MPI. Since April 2009 leader of the Research Group "Changes in God's Law - An Inner Islamic Comparison of Family and Succession Laws".

Current Projects:

www.familienrecht-in-nahost.de
Max Planck Working Group on Child Law in Muslim Countries