Dženita Karić is Assistant Professor (UD) in Religious Studies and Cultural Heritage. Her research focuses primarily on religious history of the Balkans, with a particular emphasis on Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but also on the Ottoman Empire and Islam in Europe more broadly. Her past research dealt with Islamic rituals in Bosnia in the longue durée perspective; her current research focuses on questions of religion, piety and environment in contemporary world. 

Karić obtained her PhD in 2018 at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London). She worked as a researcher at the Oriental Institute in Sarajevo (University of Sarajevo) from 2009-2020, and at the Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) from 2020-2023. She was a Teach@Tübingen Fellow at the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen during the academic year 2019/2020. 

Dženita Karić teaches courses on women and world religions, urban spiritualities and fieldwork practicum. 

Books

Bosnian Hajj Literature: Multiple Paths to the Holy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022)

Palestinski postkolonijalni roman i novela u djelima Ibrahima Džebre i Gassana Kanafanija (Sarajevo: Orijentalni institut u Sarajevu, 2011)

Articles

Cultivating love towards the Prophet in the early modern Ottoman period: arguments and practice, Cultural History, April 2023.

From Expansion to Contraction and Beyond: Zayn Al-Dīn Al-ʿIrāqī's Alfiyya and its Relation to Ibn Al-Ṣalāḥ's Muqaddima, Archiv Orientální, 88/1 (2020): 15-35

A Sultan’s children: Bosnian Jews in two major newspapers of the Bosnian vilayat – ‘’Bosna’’ and ‘’Sarajevski cvjetnik’’, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Taylor & Francis, Volume 42, Issue 2 (2015): 147-162

Djelo ‘Dalīl al-sāʾirīn’ Imām-zāde Ḥasana al-Būsnawīja i fadạ̄ʾilska literatura: tekstualni autoritet i sveti prostor (‘Dalil al-sa'irin’ of Imam-zade Hasan al-Busnawi and Fada'il Literature: Textual Authority and Holy Space), Prilozi za orijentalnu filologiju, Orijentalni institut u Sarajevu (2015): 51-87.

Chapters in edited volumes

Instructing the believers: Ottoman Bosnian Khalwati sermons on normative and supererogatory rituals, Practices of Islamic Preaching: Text, Performativity, and Materiality of Islamic Religious Speech (ed. by Almila Akca at al.), DeGruyter (December 2023).

For the love of the Prophet: Fada’il in the early modern Ottoman context, Beyond Authenticity (ed. Mohammad Gharaibeh), Brill (April 2023)

Finding the Lost Andalusia:  Reading Abdülhak Hamid Tarhan’s Tarık or the Conquest of al-Andalus in its Multiple Renderings (with Usman Ahmedani), Ottoman Central: Circulating Translations from Bombay to Paris (ed. Marilyn Booth and Claire Savina) (Edinburgh: EUP, 2022)

Bosnian Women on Hajj, Reconfiguring Muslim Pilgrimage through the lens of Women's Mobility (ed. Marjo Buitelaar, Viola Thimm and Manja Stephan-Emmrich), Routledge (November 2020)

A Birodalom Szolgálatában: Ali Dede élete és munkássága, in: Turbek: Szulejmán szultán zarándokvárosa (Pap Norbert, ed; Budapest-Pecs, 2020)

Online Bosniak hajj narratives, Muslim Pilgrimage in Europe, ed. Ingvild Flaskerud, Richard J. Natvig, Routledge, 2018, pp. 58-69.

The Many Faces of Cairo: Bosnian Muslims and their Re-imagination(s) of the Identitarian Centre, Muslims in the UK and Europe II (ed. Yasir Suleiman and Paul Anderson), Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 2016, pp. 159-168.

Review essays

“Feel-good Orientalism and the Question of Dignity” | A Review Essay on Emily Greble’s Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe, co-authored with Harun Buljina and Piro Rexhepi, The Maydan, February 2023

Review essay: Remaking Muslim Lives: Everyday Islam in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina by David Henig; Lived Islam: Colloquial Religion in a Cosmopolitan Tradition by Kevin Reinhart, American Journal of Islam and Society, 2021

Encyclopedia entries

"Pilgrimage in the Early Modern Ottoman Period” Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance World (forthcoming)

‘’Bosnian discussions on Hijra’’, Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History 1500-1900 (ed. John Chesworth and Lejla Demiri), Brill (forthcoming)

''Women in Bosnia and Herzegovina'' for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, series editor John Esposito, editor-in-chief Natana J. DeLong-Bas (2013)

''Mustafa Cerić'' for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, series editor John Esposito, editor-in-chief Natana J. DeLong-Bas (2013)

''Afterlife'' for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, series editor John Esposito, editor-in-chief Natana J. DeLong-Bas (2013)

''Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries'' for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, series editor John Esposito, editor-in-chief Natana J. DeLong-Bas (2013)

''Devotional poetry'' for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, series editor John Esposito, editor-in-chief Natana J. DeLong-Bas (2013)