Introduction
I am Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. I am working on the intellectual history of modern and contemporary Islam, Muslim minorities in Europe and transnational Islamic movements. I am particularly interested in the different ways Muslims have indigenised Western modernity and created "alternative modernities". Furthermore, I have researched the place of Muslims in European societies.
Expert
Oliver Scharbrodt is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. He studied Comparative Religion, Islamic Studies and Philosophy at the University of Bonn in Germany. He completed his graduate studies and research in London, obtaining his M.A. and Ph.D., from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). His research expertise covers the intellectual history of modern Islam and Muslim minorities in Europe. Oliver Scharbrodt is also the author of Islam and the Baha’i Faith: A Comparative Study of Muhammad ‘Abduh and ‘Abdul-Baha ‘Abbas (London: Routledge, 2008) and co-authored Muslims in Ireland: Past and Present (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015). Currently, he is the principal investigator of a project, funded by the European Research Council, that investigates the transformation of clerical authority in Twelver Shiism since the late 1950s.
Fields of expertise: Culture