Position: Research Fellow

Department: Avicenna Research Group of Middle Eastern Studies

Address: 1097 Budapest, 4 Tóth Kálmán Street

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QUALIFICATIONS

Ph.D. in Arabic Studies, Georg-August Universität Göttingen (Göttingen), Faculty of Humanities, 2022

M.A. in Arabic Studies, Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest), Faculty of Humanities, 2012

M.A. in History, Pázmány Péter Catholic University (Budapest), Faculty of Humanities, 2012

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

early and classical Arabic historiography, classical Arabic prose literature, history of the late antique Middle East, manuscript studies, Arabic codicology

PROJECTS

“Arabic-Hungarian Dictionary” Research Project. The project aims at preparing an Arabic-Hungarian dictionary (including both Classical and Modern Arabic) for scholarly and study purposes.

Ibn A῾tham and His Kitāb al-futūḥ: Textual criticism and Narrative Analysis of a 4^th-/10^th-century historiographer.

PUBLICATIONS

A complete list of publications: mtmt.hu

List of selected publications:

• Schönléber, Mónika, and András Barati: “Introduction to Books on History and Other Related Topics.” In Catalogue of Bayezit II’s Library, Studies and Indices, Volume II, edited by Miklós Maróth, István Lánczky, Gyöngyi Oroszi, 411–433. Piliscsaba: Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, 2022.
• Schönléber, Mónika, and András Barati: “List of Books on History and Other Related Topics.” In Catalogue of Bayezit II’s Library, Studies and Indices, Volume II, edited by Miklós Maróth, István Lánczky, Gyöngyi Oroszi, 437–499. Piliscsaba: Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, 2022.
• Schönléber, Mónika: “Further Observations on Chapter IX: A Note on the Method of Cataloguing.” In Catalogue of Bayezit II’s Library, Studies and Indices, Volume II, edited Miklós Maróth, István Lánczky, Gyöngyi Oroszi, 433–437. Piliscsaba: Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, 2022.
• Schönléber, Mónika: “A klasszikus muszlim történetírás egy későn felfedezett munkája: Ibn Aˁṯam al-Kūfī Kitāb al-futūḥja a korábbi kutatások fényében.” [A Belatedly Discovered Work of Classical Muslim Historiography: Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī’s Kitāb al-futūḥ in the Light of Previous Research] In Az Avicenna Közel-Kelet Kutatások Intézete Évkönyve: 2015–2017, edited by Miklós Maróth, 13–38. Piliscsaba: Avicenna Közel-Kelet Kutatások Intézete, 2018.
• Schönléber, Mónika. Review of The Early Muslim Conquest of Syria: An English Translation of al-Azdī’s Futūḥ al-Shām, by Hassanein, Hamada, and Jens Scheiner. Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 73, no. 3 (2020): 515–519.
• Schönléber, Mónika. Review of Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī: Qiṭʿa min Kitāb al-futūḥ, li-l-ʿallāma al-muʾarrikh Abī Muḥammad Aḥmad b. Aʿtham al-Kūfī, al-mutawaffā baʿda sanat 320 h, qūbilat ʿalā nuskha qadīma min al-qarn al-sādis al-hijrī, akhrajahu wa-waḍaʿa fahārisahu Markaz Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth al-Tābiʿ li-Dār Makhṭūṭāt al-ʿAtaba al-ʿAbbāsiyya al-Muqaddasa, edited by Qays al-ʿAṭṭār. al-ʿUṣūr al-Wustā / The Journal of the Middle East Medievalists 28 (2020): 421–29.
• Schönléber, Mónika: “Notes on the textual tradition of Ibn Aʿtham’s Kitāb al-Futūḥ.” In Contacts and Interaction, Proceedings of the 27^th Congress of the Union Européenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, Helsinki 2014, edited by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, Petteri Koskikallio, and Ilkka Lindstedt, 427–438. Leuven – Paris – Bristol, CT (Peeters), 2017.
• Schönléber, Mónika: “Ibn Aʿtham’s Arrangement of Ridda Material.” al-ʿUṣūr al-Wustā / The Journal of the Middle East Medievalists, 25 (2017): 157–159.
• Schönléber, Mónika: “Egy földrengés tanulságai. Megjegyzések a 13–14. századi muszlim történetírás forráskezeléséről” [Lessons of an Earthquake. Notes on the Method of Editing Muslim Historical Sources in the 13^th–14^th Centuries] Keletkutatás, no.1. (2013): 53–76.
• Schönléber, Mónika, and Kiss Anna Flóra, eds. FARĪQ Tanulmánykötet, A Fiatal Arabisták és Iranisták Konferenciájának előadásai [FARĪQ Collection of Studies, Papers Given at the Conference of Early Career Scholars of Arabic and Iranian Studies]. Piliscsaba: Pázmány Péter Katolikus Egyetem, 2013.