Islamic Culture. Conversations with Arnold Yasin Mol

Arnold (Yasin) Mol is Lecturer in Comparative Theology and Philosophy of Religion at the Islamic University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam (IUASR), and PhD Fellow and Lecturer in Philosophy and Islamic Studies at the Leiden University Institute for Philosophy, Leiden University Center for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR), and Leiden University Center for the Islamic Thought and History (LUCITH). He is also Researcher at the healthcare NGO Landelijk Steunpunt Extremisme (LSE, Dutch National Center for Extremism). His research revolves around philosophy, intellectual history and Islamic studies, and broad subjects surrounding the humanities i.e., philosophy of religions and worldviews, religious studies, hermeneutics, and ethics. –Islamic intellectual history, Islamic philosophy and theology, Māturīdīsm, Islamic exegetical history (tafsīr studies) –Philosophy of religions and worldviews, philosophical and theological anthropology, moral philosophy, religion and human rights discourse –Religious studies, conversion theory, beliefs and extremism, religion and terrorism studies He has multiple publications on the subjects of Islamic intellectual history, Islamic theology, tafsīr studies, Islamic ethics, human rights discourse, Islamic reformism and extremism, and religious studies (including Brill, Oxford University Press, Routledge, De Gruyter, ABC-Clio, Journal of Islamic Ethics, Al-Bayan Journal of Quran and Hadith Studies, Journal of Shi’a Islamic Studies, Al-Burhan Journal of Quran and Sunnah Studies), and has provided and organized talks, consultations, and lectures at multiple universities, (non-)governmental organizations, international institutes and conferences (including Erasmus University, Osnabrück University, Freiburg University, Georgetown University, Oxford University, Vrije Universiteit, ISAR Istanbul, Oxford University etc.) His publications include: ‘Ḥāshiya and the Supercommentary Tradition’ in the Gruyter Handbook on Qurʾānic Hermeneutics, ‘Human Rights’ in the Oxford Handbook on Islamic Reform (forthcoming) and the Routledge Handbook on Islamic Ethics (forthcoming), 'Islamic Human Rights Discourse and Hermeneutics of Continuity’, Journal of Islamic Ethics (JIE), Volume 3 (2019); ‘Divine respite in the Ottoman tafsīr tradition: Reconciling exegetical approaches to Q.11:117’ in Osmanli’da ilm-I Tefsir (Istanbul: ISAR, 2019); and ‘Laylat al-Qadr as Sacred Time: Sacred Cosmology in Sunnī Kalām and Tafsīr’ in Islamic Studies Today: Essays in Honor of Andrew Rippin (Leiden: Brill, 2017). #курочкина #ислам