This theme situates Islam within long historical trajectories and varied social worlds. The courses connect the emergence and development of Islamic traditions with questions of civilisation, colonialism, modernity, reform, migration, and global change.
Current courses
- Introduction to the History of Islam
- Ventures into a ‘New’ Paradigm of Social Reality
- Disintegration of the Swedish Model
- Bosnia’s Balancing Act: Navigating the Chasm between Collapse and Renewal
- The Dangers of Genocide Denial
Previous and international teaching
- Islamic Civilization and the Modern World
- Islam and the Modern World
- Islamology I-IV
- Islam in Sweden
- Islamist Movements in the Contemporary Muslim World
- Introduction to Islam
- Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic
- Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam
- The Politics of Writing Islam: Voicing Difference
- Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement
- Theorizing Islam: Disciplinary Deconstruction and Reconstruction
- The Dark Side of Modernity
- Muslim Immigrants from Post-Soviet States in Europe: Community Building along Religious Identities
- Bosnien: A Sui Generis State
Emin Poljarević 