Hammoud Hamoud

Dr. Hammoud Hamoud is a scholar of Religious and Islamic Studies working on the emergence of Paleo-Islam in Late Antiquity. He holds a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Freie Universität Berlin and is currently a postdoctoral researcher affiliated with Humboldt University Berlin and FU Berlin. His monograph Die Genese Allāhs in der Spätantike (De Gruyter, 2025) examines the Emergence of Allāh within late antique polytheistic contexts. His work also addresses fundamentalism, Islamism, and comparative approaches to religion.

• Ph.D. Religious Studies, FU Berlin (2021–2024), The Genesis of Allāh in Late Antiquity — magna cum laude
• M.A. Religious Studies, FU Berlin (2019–2021), grade 1.0
• B.A. Islamic Studies, FU Berlin (2017–2019), grade 1.5

• German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes), 2021–2024
• Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 2019–2021

Monographs

• Die Genese Allāhs in der Spätantike. Zwischen Kultus und Synkretisierungsprozessen (De Gruyter, 2025).
• In Search of the Sacred: Revival and Fundamentalism (baḥthan ʿan al-muqaddas. al-baʿth wa-l-uṣūliyya), Beirut 2014. (Beirut, 2014).
• With Aziz al-Azmeh: Syria and the Rise of Fundamentalism (Sūriyya wa-l-ṣuʿūd al-uṣūlī), Beirut 2016.

Articles

• “Al-ʾIslām kamā ʾunzil – Assad’s Islam: Religion, the State and Refitting Syrian Islam,” in Spoils of War in the Arab East (I.B. Tauris, 2024).
• “Orientalisierung ohne Orient: Das Unbehagen an der Forschung des spätantiken Paleo-Islam” (forthcoming, 2025).
• “Problematisierung des Aufstiegs des Islam in der Spätantike: Allāh, Imperium und Geschichte,” Hawliyat 19 (2020–21).

Translations

• W. Montgomery Watt, Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman (Arabic translation, 2014).
• Aziz al-Azmeh, The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity (Arabic edition, forthcoming).

• Seminar: Introduction to Islam, FU Berlin, Summer Term 2025
• Seminar: Der islamische Fundamentalismus- Begriffsgeschichte und Bewegungsdynamiken (Winter Term)
• Guest lectures on Islamic history and theology, FU Berlin (2019–2023)

• DAVO Conference, Bamberg (2024): Die Genese Allāhs in der Spätantike
• Rethinking Arab History, Society, and Culture, Vienna (2022)
• Syrian Social Scientists’ Conference (2022): Methodology of Paleo-Islam
• Multiple presentations on fundamentalism, secularism, and Syrian politics.