Umar Ryad
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies - Religious S
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Umar Ryad is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies. Prior, he was Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies at Leiden University (2008-2014). He earned a BA in Islamic Studies in English from Al-Azhar University in Cairo, followed by an MA in Islamic Studies and a PhD, both from Leiden University. He also taught at the universities of Bern and Oslo; and was a research fellow at the University of Bonn, the Free University of Berlin and Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin. His current research focuses on the dynamics of the networks of Islamic reformist and pan-Islamist movements, Muslim polemics on Christianity, the history of Christian missions in the modern Muslim World, and transnational Islam in interwar Europe. He leads a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant project on “Muslim Networks in Interwar Europe and European Transcultural History” (2014-2019).
Research Interest
Cultures, Citizenship and Human Rights
Publications
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“New Episodes in Moroccan Nationalism in the inter-war period: The Influence of Shakib Arslan in the Light of Unpublished Materialsâ€, Journal of North African Studies, vol. 16/1 (March 2011), pp. 117-142.
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Documents on the German Arms Trade in the Arabian Peninsula: Readings in the A?rchive of Zeki Kiram (Arabic), Cairo: National Archives of Egypt, Documentary Studies Series, no 2, 2011. 2.
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Götz Nordbruch and Umar Ryad (eds.), Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe: Muslim Activists and Thinkers, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
