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Sami Al Daghistani
Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society
Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
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ABOUT
I am a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Norwegian School of Theology, Society and Religion in Oslo, a Research Scholar at the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, and an Associate Faculty Member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research in New York. My research and teaching focus on Islamic intellectual history, especially on the intersection of economic and environmental thought in Islam, ethics, law, and epistemology, as well as Islam and modernity.
Discipline
Religious Studies/Theology
Sub Areas
Islamic Thought
Islamic Law
Environment
Middle East/Near East Studies
Political Economy
Theory
Mysticism/Sufi Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Former Yugoslavia
Islamic World
Mediterranean Countries
Pakistan
Southeast Asia
Specialties
Islamic Intellectual History
History Of Economic Thought In Islam
Ecological Economics
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Bosnian (fluent)
English (fluent)
German (advanced)
Dutch (elementary)
Norwegian (elementary)
Slavic (native)
French (elementary)
Bulgarian (intermediate)
Education
PhD | 2017 | Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion | Leiden (co-supervision at Columbia University)
MPhil | 2013 | Leiden Institue for Area Studies | Leiden University
BA | 2011 | Sociology of Culture and Comparative Literature | University of Ljubljana
Abstracts
Environmental and Economic Ethics: Revisiting the Islamic Tradition Economy of Happiness – Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's Ethical Teachings Tracing the Modern Epistemology of al-Iqtisad al-Islami