Projects

A Study of The Islamic State's English Magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah, Analysis and Exegesis

Purpose: to investigate what role social media had in the creation of the so-called Islamic State. How did the diversion between al-Qaeda, as a central led organization, and its Iraqi branch, al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) come to exist. What was the role of ISI (The Islamic State in Iraq) in post-Saddam Iraq and how was it possible that the organization ...

The aim of this research is to investigate the doctrine of the createdness of the Qurʾān (khalq al-Qurʾān) from its inception in Islamic theology until the end of the premodern period (ca. 1500 AD) because at this time the significant debate about the nature of the Qurʾān arose between different schools of Islamic speculative theology calledʿilm al-kalām and their counterparts; the traditionalists. The thinking about this issue can be divided ...

This project aims to harness state-fo-the-art Cultural Analytics approaches and technologies to make pioneering forays into the vast corpus of machine-readable Arabic texts that has become available in the last two decades. It also aims to digitize and annotate a set of early Arabic media material from the late 19th till present. This will be done along the lines of two case studies: Modern Arab socio-political and cultural history and ...

In daily care practices, healthcare professionals and ethnic minority patients are being confronted with many intercultural challenges. Literature still shows disparities in healthcare, inequalities and barriers in access, lower quality of care and lower health outcomes for ethnic minority patients. These challenges are even more aggravated due to a lack of insight in the ethical concerns and a lack of ethical guidelines in the existing ...

Muslim presence in Europe during the interwar period has been mostly dealt with as part of Middle-Eastern or Asian history, colonial studies, military history or simply as related to European migration history. Such narratives provide an incomplete and fragmented perspective of Muslim historical and cultural accounts in Europe by ignoring a huge amount of literature which can reshape our understanding of Muslim politics in the land of the ...

This study comprises of a series of theoretically informed empirical analyses of anti-religiosity in Western Europe. In the West, atheism, secularism and anti-religiosity gain more and more attention in the media and in scientific literature. Mostly, this intense debate is being held between popular-scientists, theologians, philosophers, politicians and journalists. What scarcely attracts attention is a more empirical understanding of these ...

Part I: Institutionalization This part will examine in what way and to what extent emerging Muslim institutions were defined by British, German and French Islam policy, both as an expression of orientalist discourse, and as the usefulness of Islam for Western European propaganda purposes as a part of an imperial competition between Britain, Germany, and France. In what way did Muslim mosque initiatives and Muslim institutions relate to ...

Many philosophers and sociologists have used the category of revolutionary Gnosticism to frame different modern and contemporary ideologies and social movements. Revolutionary, or political, Gnosticism is a category introduced in the academic debate by the political philosopher Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) in order to investigate the two main ideologies of the 20th-century, Nazism and Communism. After Voegelin, many other scholars started to use ...