On March 2nd, 2026, FOAT member dr. Welmoet Boender will launch her book Islam Theology at Western European Universities: Articulating Ikhtilāf in the Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom and Austria. This event will be in Dutch.
March 2nd, 2026
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, MF-Atrium (D146)
Van der Boechorststraat 7
Programma
15:00 Inloop
15:30 Inleiding door dr Welmoet Boender
16:00 Bijdragen over de relevantie van islamitische universiteitstheologie door:
– Prof. dr. Chaïma Ahaddour (KU Leuven)
– Prof. dr. Gijsbert van den Brink (Vrij Universiteit Amsterdam)
– Dr. Frank Peter (Friedrich-Alexander Universiteit Erlangen-Nürnberg)
17:00 Plenaire discussie
17:30 Gezellig samenzijn (ca 18.08 eindtijd vasten)
18:30 Einde
Meer informatie: w.boender@vu.nl
https://Brill.com/display/title/73690
About the author:
Welmoet Boender, Ph. D. (2007) is Associate Professor Anthropology of Islam and Vice Dean of Education at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the formation of Muslim religious professionals in Western Europe.
About the book:
In recent years, several Western European universities have started academic programs in Islamic theology. This study answers a much-debated question: How do Islamic theologians at Western European universities face the challenging task of administering, elaborating and developing Islamic knowledge through academic discourse?
This book systematically shows how scholars, first and foremost, want to use the academic space to mobilise a paradigm shift that focuses on plurality and pluralism. This approach is aimed at allowing European Muslims comfort and certainty to deal with the challenges of modern life. The study will explain this by using the concept of ikhtilāf, an Islamic legal term, which, at its broadest, can be defined as the recognition of diversity in opinions.
