CV

  • Since 03/2025: Professor of Islam in Contemporary Society at the University of Vienna
  • 2023: Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
  • 2022: Visiting Professor at Yale University, New Haven, USA
  • 2021: Editor of the international journal "Forum islamisch theologische Studien"
  • 2019-2021: Professorship for Islam in Contemporary Society at the Department of Islamic-Theological Studies at the University of Vienna
  • 2019-2025: Co-founder and co-director of the Centre for Interreligious Studies at the University of Innsbruck
  • 2017: Founder and Director of the Institute for Islamic Theology and Religious Education at the University of Innsbruck
  • 2014-2025: Professor of Islamic Religious Education at the University of Innsbruck
  • 2006-2014: Specialised inspector for Islamic religious education in Vienna
  • 2004-2006: Head of department for the teaching profession at the Islamic Religious Education Academy in Vienna
  • 2002: Doctorate in Islamic Studies specialising in Islamic Mysticism at the University of Heidelberg, Germany
  • 2002-2004: Lecturer at the Protestant University of Applied Sciences Ludwigsburg, Germany
  • 1998-2000: Studied Philosophy, specialising in Hermeneutics, at Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 1994-1998: Studied Islamic theology, specialising in Islamic philosophy and religious education at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey
  • 1991-1993: Studied Islamic theology with a specialisation in Islamic philosophy at Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt
  • Born in 1972 in Vrapčište, North Macedonia