Biographical Note

 

Mr Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen

Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (b. 1963) is the head of the academic programme at the Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen. His field is contemporary Islam, more specifically the emergence of modern Muslim media, publicists and intellectuals, and their role in modern Muslim states. In recent years his focus has been primarily on the role of Islam in the new pan-Arab television networks, and the innovations in classical Muslim literary genres such as Koran interpretation and fatwas. He is the author of Defining Islam for the Egyptian State, Leiden: Brill, 1997.

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