She holds the professorship of History of West Asia (Middle East) at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Erfurt and taught there from 2002 to 2017.

[3] Schäbler's research combines history with Islamic studies and anthropological fieldwork to address sociological and political questions.

She focuses on the social and cultural history of global modernity in its Middle Eastern manifestation.

[4] Her work posits that modern and politico-ideologized Islam today emerged in its engagement with Europe in those decades of the late 19th century, a period of radical change in the Middle East and globally.

[5] She has researched the history of the Druze Mountain (Hawran), including questions of land tenure[6] and issues of religious alterity in Syria.