Person

Sami Al Daghistani

Associate Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor

  • Islamic Studies
  • Centre for Theology and Religious Studies

Contact information

E-mail sami.al_daghistanictr.luse

Phone +46 46 222 94 63

Room LUX:B122

Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund

Internal post code 30

I am an Associate Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Contemporary Islamic Studies at the Center for Theology and Religious Studies and a Researcher at the Center for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University, an Associate Faculty Member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, and a Research Scholar at the Middle East Institute at Columbia University in New York (both since 2019). My research and teaching are situated at the intersection of Islamic economics, environment, ethics, and law in Islamic intellectual history and in the modern period.

I am the author of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī’s Ethical Teachings: Economics of Happiness (2021), the award-wining The Making of Islamic Economic Thought: Islamization, Law, and Moral Discourses (2022), and Islam in ljubezen (2023), a co-editor of Pluralism in Emergenc(i)es in the Middle East and North Africa(2021), and the editor of Recovering Environmental and Economic Traditions in the Islamic World (2024).

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Education

  • Ph.D. (Co-tutelle) in Islamic Studies, Leiden University, co-supervision at Columbia University and WWU Münster (2013 – 2017)
  • Visiting Scholar, Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies Department (MESAAS) and Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL), Columbia University in the City of New York, Ph.D. Advisor: Wael Hallaq (2015 – 2017)
  • Ph.D. Graduate Exchange, Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University (Jan-May 2014)
  • M.A. Research, Middle Eastern Studies, Leiden University (2011 – 2013)
  • B.A., Double-major, Comparative Literature and Literary Theory, and Sociology of Culture, University of Ljubljana (2006 – 2011)

Additional Education

  • Language Acquisition of Modern Standard Arabic, Université Mohammed V Souissi - Faculté des Sciences de l’Education, Rabat, Morocco, Advance level (June – July 2012)
  • Language Acquisition of Modern Standard Arabic, Merkaz Dawd, Cairo, Egypt (Feb – May 2011)
  • Exchange Student, Faculty of Islamic Studies, University of Sarajevo (Feb – Aug 2010)
  • Erasmus Exchange, Utrecht University (2007 – 2008)

Academic Appointments and Research Posts

  • Associate Faculty, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR), New York City (2019 – present)
  • Research Scholar, Middle East Institute (MEI), Columbia University, New York City (2019 – present)
  • Visiting Researcher, The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII), Turkey (June – July 2024)
  • Visiting Researcher, Department of Islamic Studies, Istanbul University, Turkey (June – July 2023)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Studies, Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society (MF), Oslo, Norway (2020 – 2024)
  • Research Scholar, Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL), Columbia University, New York (2017 – 2018)
  • Research Fellow and Lecturer, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), University of Oslo, Norway (2017 – 2018)
  • Lecturer, Leiden University Center for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR), Leiden University (2014 – 2015)

Projects & Research Group

CTR, Lund University:

  • Critical Islamic Studies Research Group and Consortium (founder; previously at MF, 2021 – 2024)

MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society:

  • “Nature and the Hereafter in Islamic Intellectual Tradition,” Postdoc project (2020 – 2024)
  • “INTERSECT: Intersecting Flows of Islamophobia” (2019 – 2020)

IRCPL, Columbia University (2017 – 2019):

  • “Religion, Environment, and Economic Traditions – Refining an Epistemology of Moral Accountability”, project director
  • “Religion & the Rise of Populisms: Difference, Dissent, and Tolerance” (MENA and Europe)
  • “Pluralism in Emergenc(i)es: Movement, Space, and Religious Difference” (MENA)

IKOS, University of Oslo (2017 – 2018):

  • “GreenMENA – Middle East and North Africa”
Sami Al Daghistani

Associate Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor

  • Islamic Studies
  • Centre for Theology and Religious Studies

Contact information

E-mail sami.al_daghistanictr.luse

Phone +46 46 222 94 63

Room LUX:B122

Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund

Internal post code 30

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