CMES Seminar: On Decolonization - Islam, Economics, and Environment

Speaker Bio

Sami Al-Daghistani (Ph.D., 2017, in Islamic Studies at Leiden University, co-supervision at Columbia University) is an Sami is Associate Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Contemporary Islamic Studies at Lund University, an Associate Faculty at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research in New York City, and a Research Scholar at the Middle East Institute, Columbia University. His teaching and research focus on Islamic intellectual history, the intersection of economics, environment and ethics, as well as on Islam and modernity. 

The recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, Sami is the author of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī’s Ethical Teachings: Economics of Happiness (Anthem Press, 2021), the award-wining The Making of Islamic Economic Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and Islam in ljubezen (Beletrina: Ljubljana, 2023), which was nominated for the prestigious Rožanc literary award. He is also a co-editor of Pluralism in Emergenc(i)es in the Middle East and North Africa (Review of Middle East Studies, 2021), the editor of Recovering Environmental and Economic Traditions in the Islamic World (forthcoming, 2024 in Brill’s Themes in Islamic Studies series), and a translator to Slovenian of Ibn Baṭṭūṭa's Riḥla (2016) and Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān (2017). In 2021, he launched a research group Critical Islamic Studies.

This seminar is part of the CMES Seminar Series.