Hannelies Koloska joined the Department of Comparative Religion in 2021. Her research and teaching focuses on the Qur’an in its late antique context, and on its interpretation, Islamic material cultures and religious practices. Her first book, “Revelation, Aesthetics and Qur’anic Exegesis. Two Studies of Surah 18 (al-Kahf)” (published in German) explores the rhetorical composition and theological focus of a Qur’anic text and sketches out its immediate impact on its initial audience. It also takes account of later Muslim interpretation and offers a unique exploration of divergent hermeneutics and their interrelations and incompatibilities. She also published the first German translation of a widely-adopted medieval Arabic book about Muslim women and their right and duties, Aḥkām al-nisāʾ by Ibn al-Jawzī, including considerable annotations. Her current projects include a monograph on concepts of vision and visuality in the Qur’an and Early Islamic exegesis and research on the relation between different media such as texts and images and the transgression of boundaries between them.