Summer Programme “Islam and Muslims in the Modern World​”, London, 27 June–2 July 2022  — LIMITE : 13/05/2022

Catharina Raudvere is professor of the History of Religions at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She works in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. She has published widely on Islam, including Islam: An IntroductionI(I.B Tauris).

Jonas Otterbeck is a professor specialising in contemporary Islam. He is Head of Research at AKU-ISMC and the current holder of the Rasul-Walker Endowed Chair in Popular Culture in Islam. In August 2021, Otterbeck’s new book The Awakening of Islamic Pop Music was published by Edinburgh University Press.

Leif Stenberg is the Dean of AKU-ISMC. He recently co-edited (with Professor Philip Wood) a volume on the politics of studying Islam entitled What is Islamic Studies? (published by Edinburgh University Press, 2022).

Sevgi Adak is an associate professor at AKU-ISMC. She specialises in gender studies, the social history of modern Turkey and Turkish politics. She is the author of Anti-Veiling Campaigns in Turkey: State, Society and Gender in the Early Republic (I.B. Tauris, 2022). 

Simon Stjernholm is an associate professor who works in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research focuses on various forms of Muslim teaching and preaching and the study of Sufism.​

Guest Lecturer:

Philip Wood is a professor and historian of the Middle East at AKU-ISMC. He is the current holder of the endowed Tejpar Chair in Interreligious Studies. He has written widely on the histories of religious minorities in the caliphate and on the experience of Muslims as minorities in Britain. Together with Leif Stenberg, he has recently published What is Islamic Studies?​  ​