Ibn Haldun University, which aims to have a voice in the social sciences around the world with its trilingual and comparative education approach, collaborations with national and international institutions and the students it educates, enriches its strong academic staff with valuable academics in their fields. As of the beginning of the academic year Professor Erik Ringmar, Professor Miriam Cooke, Professor Bruce Lawrence, Dr. Anas al Shaikh Ali and Dr. Mokhtar Maghraoui joined the Ibn Haldun family. IHU welcomes and introduces its new academic staff members, from whom it believes that students will intensively benefit.
From USA to England, from China to Sweden and finally to Ibn Haldun UniversityFaculty member of Political Science and International Relations department, Lecturer of “Comparative International Systems” Professor Dr. Erik Ringmar completed his PhD in political science at Yale University in 1993. Lecturer of comparative policies for 12 years at the London School of Economics Prof. Dr. Ringmar continued his academic studies as a political science and international relations in China between 2007-2013. Professor Ringmar whose research interests include international movements and the history of international relations, has been working as a lecturer at Lund University in Sweden since 2014. He is the author of more than 50 academic papers on international issues, international law, narrative theory and international politics and 5 books on: identity, modernity, history of Europe and East Asia, capitalism and imperialism (Liberal Barbarism: The European Destruction of the Palace of the Emperor of China; Identity, Interest and Action: A Cultural Explanation of Sweden’s Intervention in the Thirty Years War; The Mechanics of Modernity in Europe and East Asia: Institutional Origins of Social Change and Stagnation; Surviving Capitalism: How We Learned to Live with the Market and Remained Almost Human; A Blogger’s Manifesto: Free Speech and Censorship in a Digital World ). His works have been translated into Chinese, Korean and German.
A Qualitative Look at Modern Arabic Culture and LiteratureAt the Alliance of Civilizations Institute (MEDIT) there is another name that joined Ibn Haldun family as a visiting lecturer, Professor Miriam Cooke, who lectures at the Medrese-i Salis in Süleymaniye campus. Professor Cooke also teaches modern Arabic language and Arabic literature and culture, war and gender, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and postcolonial theory at Duke University. Professor Cooke who completed her PhD at Oxford University in 1980 has been working as a lecturer on seminars titled “Islam and Autobiography” at universities in Morocco, Tunisia, Romania, Indonesia, Qatar and Egypt, continues her seminars at MEDİT. Her work focuses on gender and war in modern Arabic literature and Arab women writers focusing on the construction of Islamic feminism. The main works of Prof. Cooke are as follows: The Anatomy of an Egyptian Intellectual: Yahya Haqqi (1984); War’s Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War (1988); Women and the War Story (1997); Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism through Literature (2001); Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official (2007) and Nazira Zeineddine: A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism (2010); Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf (2014); Dancing in Damascus: Creativity, Resilience, and the Syrian Revolution (2017) . Works of Prof. Miriam Cooke, including a novel called “My Life”, were translated into Arabic, Chinese, French, Dutch and German.
A 40-Year-Old Effort in Islamic HistoryProfessor Bruce Lawrence, who completed his PhD in the History of Religions at Yale University and has been a lecturer at Duke University for over 40 years, is another scholar that will teach at MEDIT as a visiting lecturer. Prof. Lawrence, who studied the Asian cultures, religions and languages and Islam's social history in Asia and Muslim scholars who grew up there, was particularly interested in the past and modern Europe's colonial history in Asia. Professor Bruce Lawrence teaches “Theory and Method in Civilization Studies” at MEDIT. Some of Bruce Lawrence's works and studies on fundamentalism, religion and ideology, which are translated into nearly 20 languages, are: Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt against the Modern Age (1989), Shattering the Myth: Islam beyond Violence (1998), Beyond Turk and Hindu: Contesting Islamicate India (2000), New Faiths/Old Fears (2002), Sufi Martyrs to Love: The Chishti Brotherhood in South Asia and Beyond (2002), Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop (Prof. Dr. miriam cooke ile birlikte, 2005)
Dr. Anas al Shaikh Ali, who lecturers on “Epistemological Bias in Popular Culture” at MEDIT, received his PhD in American Studies from the University of Manchester. The chairman of the UK-based Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS) and the Forum against the Islamophobia and Racism (FAIR) Dr. Anas al Shaikh Ali is also the academic advisor of the International Institute for Islamic Thought (IIIT). Dr. Anas al Shaikh Ali, who is listed on the world's most influential Muslim intellectuals, the list of “The Muslim 500”, continues his academic activities on Islamophobia, Islam and media in Western popular culture, Muslim education in Europe and Muslim discourse in Europe. Another name on the list of “The Muslim 500” is Dr. Mokhtar Maghraoui who carried studies on Jewish and Christian communities and comparative Studies between religions In New York. Dr. Maghraoui is one of the founders of the Al-Madina Institute and one of the pioneers of the right introduction of Islam in North America. Dr. Mokhtar Maghraoui teaches “World Law Traditions” at MEDIT.
