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The Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften invites applicants for a 50 % W3 Acting Professorship in Islamic Studies (History and Culture of the pre-Modern Middle East) commencing on April 1, 2014 to March 31, 2019Applicants are expected to demonstrate research experience on an international level as well as a successful track record in acquiring external project funding and carrying out externally funded projects.The University places particular value on the quality of teaching. We therefore request applicants provide details of both their teaching experience and their future teaching objectives.The University aims to increase the number of women in research and teaching and explicitly encourages women to apply. Equally qualified female applicants will receive preference in accordance with the Hamburg Higher Education Law.Tasks and responsibilities:The successful candidate will be expected to research and teach in the area of history and culture of the pre-modern Middle East (Arab lands), with a focus on the early and middle Islamic period.The successful candidate will be expected to actively participate in the instruction of teacher training students in his or her discipline. The teaching load and other responsibilities such as academic administration will be 50 % of a fulltime professor according to § 15 of the Hamburger Hochschulgesetz (Higher Education Law), which equals 4,5 teaching hours per week during the academic year (2 to 3 classes at 90 minutes).Requirements:Academic qualifications and further requirements as specified in §15 of the Hamburg Higher Education Law.Foreign applicants are expected to be proficient in either German or English.Applicants not proficient in German are expected to acquire proficiency in due time.Severely disabled applicants will receive preference over equally qualified non-disabled applicants.This position is subject to employee status.info and contact:For further information, including details of salary conditions, please see: http://www.verwaltung.uni-hamburg.de/6/vertretungsprof.htmlUniversität Hamburg is certified by the family-friendly higher education audit.For further information, please contact:Prof. Stefan HeidemannPhone : +49 (0)30 34727354  orEmail at:  Stefan.heidemann@uni-hamburg.de.Applications should include a curriculum vitae, details of teaching experience and proposals for future courses.The deadline for applications is Nov. 30, 2013.Please send applications preferable electronically as pdf-doc or  to:Fakultät für Geisteswissenschaften, Asien Afrika Institut, vorzugsweise als PDF per e-mail (stefan.heidemann@uni-hamburg.de) oder an Edmund Siemers Allee 1 (Ost), D-20146 Hamburg, Germanyhttp://www.uni-hamburg.de/uhh/stellenangebote/AAI_VPIslam_30-11-13_e.pdf