Birgit Krawietz is professor of Islamic Studies at the Institut für Islamwissenschaft at the Freie Universität Berlin.
From 1992 to 1998 she worked as a post-doctoral assistant at the Orientalische Seminar at the University of Tübingen.
After having finished her habilitation with Professor Joseph van Ess at the Orientalische Seminar of the Universität Tübingen about "Hierarchie der Rechtsquellen im tradierten sunnitischen Islam" [2] she left for the United States to join the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey as a fellow.
After her return to Germany she worked as a research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) near Berlin from May 2006 until March 2009.
[1] Her areas of expertise Islamic law, body and space management in Islam, namely the hurma, Hanbali school of law, Salafism, sports, body and culture, urbanism in Turkey and the Gulf.