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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
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- 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. phil. Jörg Imran SchröterKarlsruhe University of EducationDr. phil. Jörg Imran SchröterKarlsruhe University of Education
Junior Professor and Head of the Institute of Islamic Theology/Religious Education
Department of Islamic Theology/Religious Education, Karlsruhe University of Education
Prof Dr Jörg Imran Schröter is a Professor and Head of the Institute of Islamic Theology and Religious Pedagogy at the Karlsruhe University of Education. He studied Islamic Studies at the University of Freiburg and holds a doctorate and a teaching degree in German and History from the Freiburg University of Education. He was closely involved both as a teacher and an instructor in the training of new teachers in the establishment of Islamic religious education in public schools in Baden-Württemberg. In his research he focuses on interreligious exchange, Islamic religious education and religiosity of young Muslims in Germany.
Keywords
- Islamic religious education
- Inter-religious learning
- Muslim chaplaincy
- Muslim pastoral care in hospitals
- Islamic theology
- Islamic peace building
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- 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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- Prof. Dr. Alison Scott-BaumannUniversity of LondonProf. Dr. Alison Scott-BaumannUniversity of London
Professor of Society and Belief and Associate Director of Research (Impact and Engagement)
Department of Religion, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Professor Dr Alison Scott-Baumann is a Professor of Society and Belief at SOAS, University of London. From 2015 to 2018, she led the AHRC-funded project ‘(Re)presenting Islam on Campus’. She is a visiting researcher at the Centre for Islamic Theology at VU Amsterdam University. Scott-Baumann is known for her ongoing work on Islam in Britain and thus has been consulted by the British government (2007 Siddiqui Report; 2008-10 imam training review; 2019 Islamic chaplaincy review). Internationally, she is a renowned philosopher, leads a team of politically active researchers (SOAS ICOP), speaks on BBC radio and researches free speech.
Keywords
- Muslim chaplaincy
- Muslim pastoral care in hospitals
- Islamic seminaries
- Securitisation
- ‘Prevent’
- Aapplied philosophy
- Free speech and modern Islam
- Populism
- Islamophobia
- Antisemitism
Contact
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Stefanie Golla
Coordinator of Research Communication and Public RelationsEmail: golla@aiwg.de