Projects
Computational Study of Culture: Cultural Analytics for Modern Arab and Islamic Studies KU Leuven
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 ...
Special Research Fund Professorship in arabistics and islamic studies Ghent University
A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.
BOF TT Islamic studies Ghent University
A tenure track appointment grants one the privilege of focusing primarily on research for a period of 5 years, with a limited teaching load.
On the pursuit of Islamic Statehood: How the Salafi-Jihadist ideological goal of Islamic statehood results in practical on-the-ground governance. Ghent University
In 2014, the Islamic State group established a Caliphate in Syria and Iraq. Many observers hailed this attempt at state-building as a new era of Jihad, focussed on local bureaucratic control, and thus radically different from the global terrorism of Al-Qaida. However, the vision to establish an Islamic state is in fact deeply engrained in Salafi-Jihadist ideology, and there have been multiple, though under-researched, attempts to establish ...
A Study of The Islamic State's English Magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah, Analysis and Exegesis KU Leuven
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 ...
Views on Women in Medieval Islamic Philosophy: Ibn Rushd in context. Ghent University
This project aims to deliver the first comprehensive study on the characterisation of women in Medieval Islamic philosophical texts. The study will primarily focus on Ibn Rushd (Latin: Averroes),
but will involve al-Ghazali, al-Farabi and Ibn Arabi as well. Ibn Rushd is best known for his commentaries on Aristotle. He played a decisive role in the Islamic world as an advocate for Greek philosophy and his belief in reason as superior to ...
Islamic Bioethical Perspectives on Prenatal Diagnosis and Termination of Pregnancy KU Leuven
Islamic Bioethical Perspectives on Prenatal Diagnosis and Termination of Pregnancy KU Leuven
Today, medical advances have given rise to several dilemmas at the beginning of life. In the West, the examination of moral approaches to issues at the beginning of life starts mainly from secular Western/Christian bioethical positions, while normative Islamic positions are much less visible and comparatively under-researched. To date, hardly any attention is paid to Islamic ethical frameworks discussing prenatal diagnosis and termination of ...
Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures Ghent University
KNOW is the first comprehensive study of polymathy and interdisciplinarity in premodern Islam. The project sets out to write a history
of knowledge that takes the interaction between disciplines as its primary subject. The project’s historical framework is the postformative period, 1200-1800 CE, which saw the rise of new institutions of learning, the proliferation of libraries, the formation and
integration of disciplines and ...