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• ISLA11, Islamologi: Grundkurs
• ISLA20, Islamologi: Muhammad, Koranen och den tidiga historien
• ISLA23, Islamologi: Islam i imperiernas tid

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)

Research Groups

• CTR, Lund University: Critical Islamic Studies Research Group and Consortium (founder, previously at MF, 2021 – 2024)
  

Projects

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”
  

Service to the University

• Member of the Educational Committee, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University (September 2011 – 2012)
• Founder and President of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Postgraduate Student Association “Hikma,” Leiden, The Netherlands (November 2011 – 2017)
• Committee Member, MA Program in the Study of Religion, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, tasked with the creation of Islamic Studies track (2022 – 2023)

Grants & Awards

• Ad Futura, Slovene Human Resource, Development, and Scholarship Fund: Full Stipend and Tuition fee Waiver for the Research MA in Middle East Studies at Leiden University, 1st September 2011 – 31st August 2013
• Basileus Mobility Project: Full Stipend for MA in Arabic Language and Culture at Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo (2011 – 2013) (declined)
• NEPAS Project travel grant for University of Minho – Braga, Portugal, Summer School on Democratization and Political Transitions in the Arab World: Actors, Challenges, and Policy Options for the EU, (16th – 19th July 2013)
• LUSTRA Travel Grant for Arabic language Acquisition in Rabat, Leiden University (June – August 2012)
• Outbound Study Grant, Leiden University: Grant for graduate exchange program at McGill University (January – May, 2014)
• Leiden University Funds, Leiden University: Grant for graduate exchange program at McGill University (January – May, 2014)
• Curator funds, Leiden University: Grant for graduate exchange program at McGill University (January – May, 2014)
• Ad Futura, Slovene Human Resource, Development, and Scholarship Fund: Full Stipend for PhD in Islamic Studies (declined)
• Maturidi Studienförderung für islamisches Denken, Köln, Deutschland. Full Stipend for PhD in Islamic Studies (2013 – 2017)
• Leiden University Funds, Leiden University, PhD research stipend for MESAAS, Columbia University (2015 – 2017)
• President’s Global Innovation Fund Columbia University, for the two-year project “Religion & the Rise of Populisms: Difference, Dissent, and Tolerance”. Principle investigator: Katherine Pratt Ewing, Director, IRCPL. Prepared and written by: Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi, Walid Hammam, Sami Al-Daghistani, 2017
• Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life, Columbia University Joint Project Research Grant for the workshop “Religion, Environment, and Economic Traditions – Refining an Epistemology of Moral Accountability”; PIs Wael Hallaq and Souleymane Bachir Diagne (April 2018 for 2019 academic year)
• Erasmus+ Fellowship, MF for Faculty of Theology, Department of Islamic Studies, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey (June 10 – July 12, 2023)
• Book nomination for The Making of Islamic Economic Thought by Cambridge University Press for American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the Category of Textual Studies, 2023
• Book nomination for Islam in ljubezen: pričevanja o arabsko-islamski intelektualni zgodovini [Islam and Love: Testimonies of Arab-Islamic Intellectual History] for prestigious Rožančeva nagrada [Rožanc literary award], Ljubljana, Slovenia, September, 2023
• Book Award for The Making of Islamic Economic Thought for World Book of the Year Award in Islamic Studies, Islamic Republic of Iran, Tehran, February 7, 2024
• Nomination for MF’s Research Dissemination Award 2024, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo, Norway, April 2024
• Book nomination for The Making of Islamic Economic Thought for The Best Book Award in the History of Economic Thought, Italian Association for the History of Economic Thought (AISPE), May 2024
• Book fund (10,000 Euros), Lund University Library for Open Access of Recovering Environmental and Economic Traditions in the Islamic World (Leiden: Brill’s Themes in Islamic Studies Series, Volume 9, 2024)

Memberships

• Member of the Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies (NISIS) & Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) (2012 – 2017)
• Member of the International Scientific Studies Association (ILEM) Summer School Organizing Committee, Istanbul, Turkey (2019/2020)
• Member of the American Academy of Religion – AARWR (2018 – )
• Member of the Middle East Studies Association – MESA (2018 – )
• Member of the Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies – NSMES (2018 – )
• Member of the Society for the Study of Muslim Ethics – SSME (2020 – )
• Member of the Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion – NSPR (2023 – )
• Member of the Steering Committee, International Conference in Economics, Business, Humaniora and Applied Science, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 30-31, 2024