Naghmeh Jahan

Biography

Naghmeh Jahan was born and raised in Iran. Before arriving in Germany in 2004, she lived in Turkey for about seven years. She studied “Theology and Mission Studies” (B.A.) in Hermannsburg and “Religious Studies” (M.A.) and “Protestant Theology” (Diploma) in Göttingen. In 2020, she received her doctorate in “Religious Studies” in Jena. In the same year, she began her habilitation in Jena and worked as a research assistant (postdoc) and lecturer at the Catholic Institute of the University of Aachen. Since winter semester 2019/20, she has also been working as a lecturer (external employee) for religious studies in Jena. In 2023, she was accepted into the Jena funding programme and wrote her habilitation thesis on “The aesthetic dimension of the human body from the origins of Islam to the present day”. Since 2005, Jahan has worked as a lecturer in various communities and cities as well as at academic conferences, workshops and exhibitions. Since April 2024, she has been working as an Islamic scholar at the Bavarian Research Centre for Interreligious Discourse.