Biographical Note

 

Professor Jorgen S. Nielsen

Jorgen Nielsen is Professor of Islamic Studies, Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, and deputy head of the Department of Theology, University of Birmingham. He holds degrees in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and a PhD in Arab History from the American University of Beirut. He regularly lectures and participates in conferences in various parts of the world, including Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, the Philippines, the United States and various European countries, and has worked as a consultant to the Council of Europe on religious minorities, and to the Swedish Foreign Ministry on Islam and Europe. Since 1992 he has been a Trustee and Board member of the International Centre for Minorities and Intercultural Relations (IMIR), Sofia, Bulgaria. After many years of working on Islam in Europe, current research is concentrating on the Islamic debate on religious pluralism and relations with the West. Most recent publications include: Muslims in Western Europe (Edinburgh University Press, 1992, 2nd ed. 1995); Arabs and the West: Mutual Images as joint editor (Amman: University of Jordan, 1998); Towards a European Islam (London: Macmillan, 1999); Muslim networks and transnational communities in and across Europe, ed. jointly with S. Allievi (Leiden:Brill, 2003).

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