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- Dr. Ingrid MattsonHuron University CollegeDr. Ingrid MattsonHuron University College
Chair of Islamic Studies
Theology Department, Huron University CollegeIngrid Mattson, PhD (U. Chicago, 1999), is a Muslim scholar and religious leader. Since 2012, she has been the Chair of Islamic Studies at Huron College in London, Canada. Previously she taught at Hartford Seminary (CT, USA), where she founded and directed the Islamic Chaplaincy Program. From 2001-2010, she was Vice President, later President, of the Islamic Society of North America. Her writings focus on Islamic theological ethics, Qur’anic studies and interfaith engagement. She is the founder and director of the Hurma Project, dedicated to upholding the sacred inviolability of the human person and preventing abuse in religious spaces.
Keywords
- Islamic chaplaincy
- Islamic theological ethics
- Qur’anic ethics
- Professionalisation of religious leadership
- Boundary violations by religious leadership
Contact
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Stefanie Golla
Coordinator of Research Communication and Public RelationsEmail: golla@aiwg.de
- Dr. Mohammed HashasLuiss University of RomeDr. Mohammed HashasLuiss University of Rome
Department of Political Science, Luiss University of Rome
Mohammed Hashas [pronounced as ‘ḥaṣ-ḥāṣ’] is a Faculty Member at the Department of Political Science at the Luiss University of Rome, from which he holds a PhD in Political Theory on the idea of European Islam. He also taught at The American University of Rome (AUR). His research areas are: modern and contemporary Arab-Islamic philosophy and theology, European Islam and Moroccan thought. Hashas was previously a Senior Research Fellow at Fscire-La Pira Library and Research Center on the History and Doctrines of Islam in Palermo, and a Visiting Research Fellow at: the Leibniz-ZMO Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin, at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies of the University of Oxford, at the Centre for European Islamic Thought at the University of Copenhagen and at the Babylon Center for the Study of the Multicultural Society in Tilburg, the Netherlands. Hashas has authored The Idea of European Islam (2019) and Intercultural Geopoetics (2017), as well as published edited volumes on Islam, State and Modernity (2018), Imams in Western Europe (2018), Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm (2020), and Pluralism in Islamic Contexts (2021). He has published numerous journal articles and opinion essays in both English and Arabic. Personal website: www.mohammedhashas.com
Keywords
- European imam training
- Islamic theology and philosophy
- Islamic ethics
- Islamic modern intellectual history
- European Islam
- Modern and contemporary Moroccan thought
Contact
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Stefanie Golla
Coordinator of Research Communication and Public RelationsEmail: golla@aiwg.de
- Dr. Niels Valdemar VindingUniversity of CopenhagenDr. Niels Valdemar VindingUniversity of Copenhagen
Associate Professor
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of CopenhagenDr Niels Valdemar Vinding is an Associate Professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from the University of Copenhagen and a Master of Law in Canon Law from Cardiff University. Dr Vinding researches Islam and Muslims in Denmark and Europe with a special focus on relations to law, state and church. Previously focusing on imams of the West and mosques in Denmark, he currently leads the project ‘Producing Sharia in Context’, investigating how Sharia and Islamic law, ethics and practice is understood and may be observed as a product of its context.
Keywords
- Muslim chaplaincy
- Muslim pastoral care
- Islamic theology
- Islamic law, ethics and practice
- Imams and Muslim leadership
- Muslim institutions
- Law and religion
- Church and state
Contact
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Stefanie Golla
Coordinator of Research Communication and Public RelationsEmail: golla@aiwg.de
- Dr. Welmoet BoenderVrije Universiteit AmsterdamDr. Welmoet BoenderVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Assistant Professor of Islam and Religious Studies; Programme Director of Bachelor Education
Faculty of Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamDr Welmoet Boender is an Assistant Professor of Islam and Religious Studies and Programme Director of Bachelor Education of the Faculty of Religion and Theology at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is a staff member of the Center for Islamic Theology. Her work concerns Islam and Muslims in the Netherlands and Europe, especially the role of imams, female religious leadership, imam-training, Islamic higher education and the development of Islamic Theology programmes at European universities. She is a senior member of the Netherlands Interuniversity School of Islamic Studies (NISIS) and affiliated member of the Erlangen Centre for Islam and Law (EZIRE) at FAU Erlangen-Nurnberg (Germany).
Keywords
- Imam training
- Islamic theology
- Muslim chaplaincy
- Female religious leadership
- Islamic expert education
- Curriculum formation
- Islam-State relations
- Netherlands
- University training
Contact
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- Mohammed ToualbiaEHESS ParisMohammed ToualbiaEHESS Paris
PhD Researcher
EHESS Paris
Mohammed Toualbia graduated with a Master’s Degree in Islamology and Tafsir Studies from the Sorbonne Paris IV and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) on ‘Muslim Chaplaincy in a Secular Context: The Quality of Training in a Challenging Field’. His PhD research deals with the transformation of the profession of imams in French-speaking Europe. He was a chaplain trainer and has been teaching the art of speech in Arabic-French to prospective chaplains at the Al Ghazali Institute of the Grand Mosque of Paris, where he was also charged with the audio-visual communication.
Keywords
- Social sciences of religions
- Islam and minorities
- Islamic religious and Muslim community
- Sociology, philosophy
- Islamic theology
- Applied Islamology
- Muslim leadership
- Translation and terminology
- Andalusian and Moorish Studies
Contact
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- Noemi TruccoUniversity of FribourgNoemi TruccoUniversity of Fribourg
PhD student and junior researcher
Swiss Centre for Islam and Society, University of Fribourg
Noemi Trucco studied Sociology and Middle Eastern Studies at the universities of Fribourg and Bern, Switzerland. Since May 2018, she is a junior researcher and since February 2019 works as a PhD student at the Swiss Centre for Islam and Society at the University of Fribourg. Her PhD thesis deals with imams in Switzerland and is part of an interdisciplinary project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. As a junior researcher, she is involved in research projects on the educational paths of imams, on people engaged in Muslim communities and on local and transnational networks of Muslim communities in Switzerland.
Keywords
- Imams in Switzerland
- Media discourse on Islam/Muslims
- Political discourse on Islam/Muslims
- Muslim communities in Switzerland
Contact
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Stefanie Golla
Coordinator of Research Communication and Public RelationsEmail: golla@aiwg.de
- Prof. Dr. habil. Agata S. NalborczykUniversity of WarsawProf. Dr. habil. Agata S. NalborczykUniversity of Warsaw
Associate professor, Head of the Department for European Islam Studies
Department for European Islam Studies, University of Warsaw, PolandAgata S. Nalborczyk is a Professor of Religious Studies/Islamic Studies and the Head of the Department for European Islam Studies at the University of Warsaw. She serves on the editorial board of the monograph series ‘Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe’ (Brill). Her latest publications include: ‘Polish Tatar Women as Official Leaders of Muslim Religious Communities and the Sources of their Authority’ (Comparative Islamic Studies 12:1-2, 2019 [2016]) and ‘The Typology of Imams in the West and Imams in Poland: Past and Present’ (Studia Religiologica, 52:1, 2019). She is a PI of the long-term project ‘Cultural transfer as the transdisciplinary element of the science of intercultural relations, as exemplified by the impact of Arabic culture on the cultural heritage of Poland’ (2016-2021).
Keywords
- Islamic religious leadership
- Legal status of Islam and Muslims in Europe
- History of Muslim minorities in Europe
- Imams in indigenous Muslim communities
- Islam-State relations; Polish-Lithuanian Muslim Tatars
- Image of Islam and Muslims in Europe
- Imams in Poland; imams in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Contact
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Stefanie Golla
Coordinator of Research Communication and Public RelationsEmail: golla@aiwg.de
- Prof. Dr. Hansjörg SchmidUniversity of FribourgProf. Dr. Hansjörg SchmidUniversity of Fribourg
Director of the Swiss Center for Islam and Society (SZIG/CSIS) and Professor of Interreligious Ethics, University of Fribourg
Hansjörg Schmid holds a PhD in theological studies from the University of Freiburg and a Habilitation (post-doctoral) degree in social ethics from the University of Munich. His research is on political ethics and Muslims in Europe, with a special interest in the interfaces of politics, civil society and Islamic thought. Being the founder of the international network “Theological Forum Christianity – Islam”, he acted as its coordinator from 2003 to 2014. He conducted several research projects on Imams, chaplaincy and Muslim communities and is responsible for different training programmes for Imams and Muslim chaplains in Switzerland.
Keywords
- Roles of Imams in communities and society
- Muslim chaplaincy (focus on healthcare and asylum)
- Islamic social work in the context of the welfare state
- Imam training in the framework of religious policy
- Transnational dimensions in the educational pathways of imams
- Further education for chaplains and imams
Contact
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Stefanie Golla
Coordinator of Research Communication and Public RelationsEmail: golla@aiwg.de