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Curriculum Vitae

Personalia Name Umar Ryad Date of Birth 6 May 1975 Place of Birth Al-Mansoura (Egypt) Academic Training 2003-2008 PhD (12/06/2008)

Leiden University Faculty of Religious Studies (Supervisors: Prof. Dr. P.S. van Koningsveld and Prof. Dr. G.A. Wiegers). Dissertation Islamic Reformism and Christianity: A Critical Reading of the Works of Muhammad Rashid Rida and His Associates (1898-1935), Leiden: Brill, 2009

1999-2001 Master’s degree (cum laude), Islamic Studies Leiden University Faculties of Arts and Theology Major Research: The interaction between Islam and Christianity in the modern age and the status of Muslims and religious freedom in the Netherlands

1993-1998 Bachelor’s Degree, Islamic Studies in English 1993-1999 Al-Azhar University in Cairo

Faculty of Languages and Translation (Department of English) Study of classical and modern sources of Islam in English; various types of Arabic-English translation and vice versa; English literature and linguistics

Work experience 2017-currently KU Leuven Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies Department of Arabic and east-Asian Studies

Faculty of Arts

2014-2017 University of Utrecht Associate Professor, Arabic and Islamic Studies Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies Faculty of Humanities

Research 0,9 fte; teaching 0,1 fte (2014-2019) Research and supervision of the ERC Starting Grant PhD and team members Co-teaching a course related to the role of religions in the public sphere

(University College Utrecht)

2008-2014 Leiden University Assistant Professor, Islamic Studies

Leiden Institute of Religious Studies

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Faculty of Humanities (formerly Religious Studies) Research 0,4 fte, teaching 0,4 fte, management 0,2 fte Research in the field of modern Islamic thought and movements. Teaching subjects related to primary sources of Islam (BA); Modern Trends in

Islam (BA); Modern Islamic Theology (BA); Qur’anic Exegesis (BA), Quran and Hadith Sciences (BA); Arabic Religious Texts (BA); Islamic Jurisprudence for Muslims in the West (MA); Religions and Modernity (MA, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Judith Frishman and Prof. Dr. Ernestine van der Wall (UL)

Supervision of students in both Bachelor and Master stages PhD co-supervisor Member of the institute’s examination and educational committees

2006-2008 Leiden University Instructor, Islamic Theology

Leiden Institute of Religious Studies Faculty of Humanities (formerly Religious Studies)

Research 0,4 fte, teaching 0,4 fte, management 0,2 fte Research in the field of modern Islamic thought and movements Teaching subjects related to Modern Trends in Islam (BA); Qur’an and Hadith

Sciences (BA); Arabic Religious Texts (BA); Islamic Jurisprudence for Muslims in the West (MA); Jewish and Islamic Law (MA, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Judith Frishman and Dr. Mohammed Ghaly UL).

Supervision of students in both Bachelor and Master stages Member of institute’s administrative and educational committees

2003 –2006 University of Leiden, Former Faculty of Theology (LISOR)

Assistant-in-training (AIO) PhD research 1 fte Teaching the subject ‘Rituals and Symbols of Islam’ Communication Advisor, Islamic Theology

2002 – 2003 University of Leiden Faculty of Theology, Research assistant (prof. dr. G.A. Wiegers) Collecting and archiving film materials for courses on Islamic Rituals

2002 – 2003 Onderwijsadvies ‘Taallokaal Leiden’ Onderwijs in Allochtone Levende Talen (OALT) Teacher of Arabic (language programme designed for immigrants of the second and third generation in The Netherlands)

2001 – 2002 Egyptian Embassy (Germany) Interpreter/translator: English/Arabic (freelance), for the Military Attaché

1998-1999 Nasr City Private School (Cairo), Teacher of English Guest (Senior) lecturer-ship September 2016 The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo Visiting Lecturer - MA Arabic & Islamic Studies

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Teaching and supervising Belgian and Dutch MA students in Cairo during the course: “Texts in Context II: History, Society, and Religion”

April 2015 University of Oslo, The Center for Islamic and Middle East Studies, Faculty of Humanities Invited Visiting Senior Lecturer, Islamic Studies

Teaching and supervising students of Religious Studies and Middle Eastern Studies during the course “Sharia and Muslims in the West”, mainly tailored for the students

Oct.-Nov. 2013 University of Oslo, The Center for Islamic and Middle East Studies, Faculty of Humanities

Invited Visiting Senior Lecturer – Islamic Studies Teaching and supervising students of Religious Studies and Middle Eastern

Studies during the course “Islam and Modernity”, mainly tailored for the students

Feb. – July 2010 Theologische Fakultät, University of Bern Invited Guest Lecturer

Teaching and supervising students of Theology and Religious Studies during the course “Modern Trends in Islam”, mainly tailored for the students

Teaching Tasks 2017- Leuven Faculty of Arts

Undergraduate: ‘1) “Contemporary Debates in Arabic and Islamic Studies, 2) “Introduction to Arabic Literature” MA: “Current Debates in Islam”

2014-2017 Utrecht University College

Undergraduate: “Religions in the Public Domain: Judaism and Islam”, together with Dr. Eric Ottenheijm (UU)

2004-2014 Leiden University

Undergraduate Courses: 1) Ritual and Symbols of Islam; 2) Modern Trends in Islam; 3) The Study of Islam: Advanced; 4) Qur’anic Sciences; 5) Hadith Sciences; 6) Qur’anic Exegesis: Christianity and Christians in the Qur’an; 7) Modern Islamic Theology; 8) Reading of Modern Arabic Religious Texts; 9) Islamic Sources.

MA Courses: 1) Islamic jurisprudence for Muslims in Europe: the role of Fatwas (MA); 2) Jewish and Islamic Law (MA, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Judith Frishman and Dr. Mohammed Ghaly (UL); 3) Comparing Modernities: Judaism, Christianity and Islam (MA), in collaboration with Prof. Dr. E.G.E. van der Wall; Prof. Dr. J. Frishman)

Supervision of Graduate Students and Postgraduate Fellows 2006 – 2018 Supervisor, 2 postdoc, 7 PhD, (three as a co-supervisor Utrecht University,

Free University of Belin and Al-Farabi Kazakh National University), and circa 30 MA theses in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Universities of Leiden, Utrecht and KU Leuven.

2008-2018 Examiner, 18 PhD dissertations at different universities

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Research (Senior)fellowship July-August 2019 Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG) in Mainz Invited Senior Fellowship

Continued work on the ERC-project Preparing further research ideas on a following research project

June–Sept. 2016 Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures & Societies – Free University of Berlin

Invited Visiting Fellow Research on the position of Muslims in interwar Germany and the European

propaganda during the two World Wars December 2013 Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) Invited Research Fellow

Research on the trans-cultural history of Muslims in interwar Berlin June-Aug. 2012 University of Bonn, Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften, Abteilung für

Islamwissenschaft Invited visiting researcher within the BMBF-Project “Europa von außen gesehen”

Invited Research Fellow Research on “the image of Europe among Muslim reformists in the twentieth

century” and “Islam in Interwar Europe”

Professional Training and Courses 2017 Seniorkwalificatie Onderwijs (SKO-ow, Senior Teaching Qualification) 2017 Seniorkwalificatie Onderzoek (SKO-oz, Senior Research Qualification) 2016-2017 Onderzoekleiderschap (Research Leidership), Utrecht University 2014-2015 Academisch Leiderschap (Academic Leadership), Utrecht University 2011 Basiskwalificatie Onderwijs (BKO, Basic Teaching Qualification) ICLON, Leiden

University Graduate School of Teaching 2010 Begeleiden van promovendi (Training of PhD-students), Leiden University 2010 Intercultural Classroom, University of Leiden Research Grants and Major Collaboration 2020-2023 Marie Curie ITN Project: “Mediating Islam in the Digital Age” (MIDA) (Co-PI) 2019-2022 Qatar National Research Fund: “The Computational Study of Culture: Cultural

Analytics for Modern Arab and Muslim Studies” at Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (Co-PI)

June 2014- May 2019 ERC Starting Grant, Neither visitors, nor colonial victims: Muslims in Interwar Europe and European Trans-cultural History (Max. ERC funding: 1,498,984 €)

Prizes 2008-2009 Gratification reward, Leiden Institute for the Study of Religions 2006-2007 ‘Bewust Belonen’, reward for the Best Employee of the Year, Faculty

of Religious Studies 2006 The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) grant,

two-month research in Morocco 2005 Leids Universiteits Fonds (LUF), one-month research in Germany

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2005 Certificate of distinction during the summer university course ‘Bookish Traditions: Authority and the Book in Scripturalist Religions’, Central European University, Budapest

2004 NWO grant, two-month research in Egypt 1999-2001 The Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher

Education (NUFFIC), MA-fellow Membership 2019- Board member, Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies 2018-2023 Member of the Young Academy of Belgium 2018 Co-Chair, Panel Cultural Studies, Science Agenda of Belgium 2016 Panel member, Evaluation of the teaching programmes of The Islamic University of

Europe in Rotterdam, Dutch-Flemish Accreditation Organization (Nederlands - Vlaamse Accreditatieorganisatie, NVAO).

2015- Editorial Board, Philological Encounters, Leiden: Brill (peer-reviewed journal: Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship).

2015- Member of the Advisory Board of the Leiden Islam Academie – Leiden University 2014- Editorial Board, Book Series “Islam in verandering”, Uitgeverij Parthenon, The

Nethelands 2015 Panel member, Evaluation of the teaching programmes of The Islamic University of

Rotterdam, Dutch-Flemish Accreditation Organization (Nederlands - Vlaamse Accreditatieorganisatie, NVAO).

2012- Collegium of the research programme: Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship, Forum Transregionale Studien, the Free University of Berlin (FU)

2012-2017 Editorial Team, Christian-Muslim Relations, A Bibliographical History 1500-1900, Leiden: Brill, hosted by the University of Birmingham.

2009-2014 Member of the Examiners’ Committee–Institute of Religious Studies, University of Leiden

2007 Organising member of the NOSTER International Third Congress, The Ambivalence of Sainthood and Sin, 24-25 April.

2006-2014 Member of the Educational Committee, MA, Institute of Religious Studies University of Leiden

2003-2006 Member of the Institute Committee LISOR, representative of PhD students, Faculty of Theology, University of Leiden

2002- The Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion (NOSTER) 2003- Member of the Netherlands Association of Religious Studies (NGG)

Publications: Books and Edited volumes: 2019. The Muslim Reception of European Orientalism, eds. Routledge (co-editor with Susannah

Heschel) (forthcoming). 2016. The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire, ed. (Leiden Studies in Islam and Societies series),

Leiden: Brill. 2015. Muslims in interwar Europe: A Trans-cultural Historical Perspective, (Muslim Minorities series,

vol. 16) Leiden: Brill (co-editors Bekim Agai and Mehdi Sajid). 2015. Exchanged Letters between Shakib Arslan and Mohammed Daoud, the Historian of Tetouan

(Arabic), Cairo: National Archives of Egypt, Documentary Studies Series, no 14. 2014. Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe: Muslim Activists and Thinkers, (The Modern Muslim

World Series), New York: Palgrave Macmillan (co-editor with Götz Nordbruch). 2011. Documents on the German Arms Trade in the Arabian Peninsula: Readings in the Archive of

Zeki Kiram (Arabic), Cairo: National Archives of Egypt, Documentary Studies Series, no 2. 2009. Islamic Reformism and Christianity: a Critical Reading of the Works of Muhammad Rashid Rida

and his Associates (1898-1935), Leiden: Brill (The History of Christian Muslim Relations), 2009.

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[Book reviews: Heather J. Sharkey, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam (2009), 36: 585-590; Karel Steenbrink, Exchange (2010), 39: 429-430; Rosanna Budelli, IslamoChristiana (2010), 36: 420; Richard van Leeuwen, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies (2011), 74: 144-146; Mehdi Sajid, Sehepunkte, 11/3 (2011)]

Chapters, articles and reviews: Peer-reviewed 2019. “British and Muslim: British Converts and their apologetics for Islam in the interwar period”,

in Todd H. Weir & Hugh McLeod (eds.), Apologetics and Politics: Religious-Secularist Conflicts in the Twentieth Century, Proceedings of the British Academy, London (forthcoming)

2018. “An Oriental Orientalist”: Aḥmad Zakī Pasha (1868-1934), Egyptian Statesman and Philologist in the Colonial Age", Philological Encounters 3 (2018) 129-166.

2017. “Rather Turkish than Papist”: Islam as a political force in the Dutch Low Countries in the Early modern period, The Muslim World: Special edition on Islam and the Protestant Reformation (guest editor: David D. Grafton), Oct. 2017

2016. “Introduction: The Hajj and Europe in the Pre-Colonial and Colonial Age”, in Umar Ryad (ed.), Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empires, ed. (Leiden Studies in Islam and Societies series), Leiden: Brill, 1-13.

2016. “On his donkey to the mountain of Arafah: Dr Van der Hoog and his Hajj Journey to Mecca,” in Umar Ryad (ed.), Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empires, ed. (Leiden Studies in Islam and Societies series), Leiden: Brill, 185-216.

2016. “Eschatology between Reason and Revelation: Death and Resurrection in Modern Islamic Theology”, in Sebastian Günther and Todd Lawson (eds.), Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam, Leiden: Brill, vol. 2, pp. 1187-1221.

2016. Judith Frishman and Umar Ryad, “Islamic and Jewish Legal Traditions,” in Josef W. Meri (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Muslim-Jewish Relations, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group Ltd, pp. 155-178.

2016. “A German “Illusive Love”: Rashid Rida’s Perceptions of the First World War in the Muslim World” in Zürcher, Erik-Jan (ed.), Jihad and Islam in World War I, Leiden University Press: LUCIS: Debates on Islam & Society, pp. 305 - 328

2015. “Salafiyya, Ahmadiyya and European Converts to Islam in the interwar period”, in Bekim Agai Umar Ryad and Mehdi Sajid, Muslims in interwar Europe: A Trans-cultural Historical Perspective, Leiden: Brill, pp. 47-87.

2015. “Muslim Responses to Missionary Literature in Egypt in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries,” in Douglas Pratt et al (eds.), The Character of Christian-Muslim Encounter: Essays in Honour of David Thomas, Leiden: Brill, pp. 288-308.

2014. “Introduction: Toward a Transnational History of Islam and Muslims in Interwar Europe”, (co-author Götz Nordbruch), in Götz Nordbruch and Umar Ryad (eds.), Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe: Muslim Activists and Thinkers, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-12.

2014. “A Salafi Student in Orientalist Scholarship in Nazi Germany: Taqi al-Din al-Hilali and His Experience in the West”, in Götz Nordbruch and Umar Ryad (eds.), Transnational Islam in Interwar Europe: Muslim Activists and Thinkers, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 107-156.

2014. “Anti-Imperialism and the Pan-Islamic Movement”, in David Motadel (ed.) Islam and the European Empires (The Past & Present Book Series), Oxford University Press, pp. 131-149.

2013. “Te gast in Den Haag - discussies moskeebouw in Nederland vóór de Tweede Wereldoorlog,” Tijdschrift voor Religie, Recht en Beleid, vol. 4/2, pp. 59-78.

2012. “Among the believers in the land of the colonizer: Mohammed Ali van Beetem’s role among the Indonesian community in The Netherlands in the interwar period,” Journal of Religion in Europe, vol. 5/2, pp. 273-310.

2011. “New Episodes in Moroccan Nationalism in the inter-war period: The Influence of Shakib Arslan in the Light of Unpublished Materials”, Journal of North African Studies, vol. 16/1, pp. 117-142.

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2010. “Islamic reformism and Great Britain: Rashid Rida’s image as reflected in the journal Al-Manar in Cairo,” Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations, vol. 21/3, pp. 263-286.

2010. “Islamic reformism and Great Britain: Rashid Rida’s image as reflected in the journal Al-Manar in Cairo,” Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations, vol. 21/3, pp. 263-286.

2009. “A Prelude to Fiqh al-Aqalliyyât: Rashîd Ridâ’s Fatwâs to Muslims under non-Muslim Rule,” in Christiane Timmerman, Johan Leman, Barbara Segaert, H. Roos, (eds.), In-Between Spaces Christian and Muslim Minorities in Transition in Europe and the Middle East, Bruxelles: P.I.E. Peter Lang, pp. 239-270.

2009. “A printed Muslim ‘Lighthouse’ in Cairo: Al-Manār’s early years, religious aspiration and perception,” Arabica, vol. 56, pp. 27-60.

2008. “‘Aussi éphémère que l’abricot.’ La réponse d’un converti égyptien au christianisme à la publication de l’Evangile de St Barnabé en arabe,” in Laure Guirguis (ed.), Conversions religieuses et mutations politiques. Tares et avatars du communautarisme égyptien, Paris: Editions Non Lieu, pp. 97-110.

2008. “The Dismissal of A. J. Wensinck from the Royal Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo,” in Willem B. Drees & Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld (eds.), The Academic Study of Religion and the Training of Muslim Clergy in Europe: Religious and Academic Freedom, Amsterdam University Press, pp. 91-134.

2006. “Muslim Response to Missionary Activities in Egypt: With a Special Reference to the Al-Azhar High Corps of Ulama’ (1925-1935),” in Heleen Murre-Van den Berg (ed.), New Faith in Ancient Lands: Western Missions in the Middle East in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Leiden: Brill, pp. 281-307.

2006. “From an officer in the Ottoman army to a Muslim publicist and armament agent in Berlin: Zekî Hishmat Kirâm (1886–1946),’ Bibliotheca Orientalis, vol. 63/3-4, pp. 235-268.

2002. “Rashîd Ridâ (1865-1935) and a Danish Missionary: Alfred Nielsen and Three Fatwâs from Al-Manar,” IslamoChristiana, vol. 28, pp. 97-107.

Non Peer-reviewed 2015. “‘Heilige Oorlog made in Germany’ Duitse jihadpropaganda tijdens de Eerste Wereldoorlog,”

ZemZem, 1/2015, pp. 8-13. 2015. “Ibn Nujaym al-Misri”, in D. Thomas & J. Chesworth (Eds.), Christian-Muslim Relations - A

Bibliographical History: Vol. 7 Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and South America (1500-1600), Leiden: Brill, pp. 688-692.

2015. “Ibn Tulun”, in D. Thomas & J. Chesworth (Eds.), Christian-Muslim Relations - A Bibliographical History: Volume 7: Central and Eastern Europe, Asia, Africa and South America (1500-1600), Brill, pp. 637-639.

2014. “Jurji Zaidan and Rashid Rida”(Arabic), Al-Hilal, June, pp. 78-87. 2014. “Book Review of Simon Wood’s Christian Criticisms, Islamic Proofs: Rashid Ridā’s Modernist

Defense of Islam,” Journal of Islamic Studies, vol. 25/2, pp. 246-248. 2013. “Enlightenment: III Islam”, Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception 7, Berlin/Boston: Walter

De Gruyter. 2012. “Absent Conditions: The Dream of Re-establishing the Caliphate facing the Dilemma of

Modernity” (Arabic), International Politics, Al-Ahram (Cairo), July. 2010. “Book Review of Heather J. Sharkey’s American Evangelicals in Egypt. Missionary Encounters

in an Age of Empire”, Church History and Religious Culture, vol. 90/4, pp. 729-730. 2010. “Vijand en voorbeeld: zending in het Britse protectoraat Egypte”, ZemZem: Tijdschrift over het

Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en islam, nr. 2, pp. 35-43. 2009. “Van progressief naar conservatief: De wortels van het salafisme”, Roodkoper, vol. 13/4, pp.

21-24. 2007. “De Koran van: Marcoush, Azough en Karacaer,” ZemZem: Tijdschrift over het Midden-Oosten,

Noord-Afrika en islam, vol. 3/2, pp. 38-45.

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2007. “Van officier in het Ottomaanse leger tot islamitische publicist en wapenhandelaar in Berlijn: Zeki Hishmat Kirâm (1886-1946),” ZemZem: Tijdschrift over het Midden-Oosten, Noord-Afrika en islam, vol. 3/1, pp. 74-83.

Conferences (Co)organizer 2019. “Global Islam in the Interwar World”, ERC Concluding International Conference, University of

Leuven 27-29 March. 2018. Academy Colloquium: “Whither Islamicate Digital Humanities?”, The Royal Netherlands

Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam, 13-15 December 2017. Panel: In the land of the colonizers: Muslims in Interwar Europe,” Fifth ENIUGH (European

Network in World and Global History) Congress on “Ruptures, Empires and Revolutions,” Budapest, Hungary, 31 August - 3 September 2017.

2017. Muslim Networks in Europe, South Asia, and the Arab Middle East in the first half of 20th Century, ERC Starting Grant “Muslims in interwar Europe”, Project: Modern India in German Archives, 1706-1898, and Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Berlin, 3-4 February

2016. Islamic Studies in the West: An interdisciplinary perspective, Islamic and Arabic Studies department at the University of Utrecht, the Dutch-Flemish Institute in Cairo, Cairo 3-8 December.

2016. The role of (Post)colonial Public Intellectuals in Europe: Figures, Ideas and Connections, 28-29 January 2016, Utrecht University

2015. Panel: Muslims in Europe in the Interwar Years: A Trans-cultural Perspective, Middle East Studies Association, Denver, 21-24 November.

2014. Panel: Neither visitors, nor colonial victims: the history of Muslims in interwar Europe, Sponsored by European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant), IV. World Congress for Middle East Studies – WOCMES, Ankara 18- 22 August.

2014. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Philological Encounters, Forum Transregionale Studien (Berlin) and the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS), in cooperation with Leiden University Library, Leiden 4-5 June 2014.

2013. Europe and Hajj in the Age of Empires: Muslim Pilgrimage prior to the Influx of Migration, Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS)- The Netherlands in Cooperation with King Abdulaziz Foundation for Research and Archives in Riyadh, Leiden University, 13-15 May.

2012. Islam in Interwar Europe and European Cultural History, Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) in corporation with the Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies, BMBF Research Group "Europe from the Outside," Leiden University, 13-14 December 2012.

2011. Transnational Islam in interwar Europe, The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS), in collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary Middle East Studies – University of Southern Denmark, The Dutch-Flemish Institute in Cairo and Leiden University Fund (LUF)], Leiden, 12-13 December 2011.

2011. East-West Networks in Europe, Middle East the Levant and the Red Sea Region in the Inter-war Period, Institut Français du Proche-Orient–Aleppo, in collaboration with Leiden centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) and the Dutch Institute in Damascus, 21-23 March.

(Keynote/invited) Speaker 2018. “Darwinism in Contemporary Muslim Thought,” Distinguishing Science and Metaphysics in

Evolution and Religion, University of Leiden, 27-31 August 2018. “The Hajj between Photography and Film in the Netherlands in the Colonial Age,” Muslims in

the UK and Europe, University of Cambridge, Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, 18 June (Keynote Address)

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2017. “Muslim Apologetics against Western Christian Missions in interwar Egypt”, Defending the Faith: Religious and Secularist Apologetics in Twentieth-Century Politics, The British Academy, London, 21 & 22 September (Invited Speaker).

2017. “Geneva as a center for Pan-Islam: Shakib Arslan and his network in interwar Europe”, Workshop: Rule, Resistance and the State/s: Perspectives from Islamic International Law and International Relations, Institute of International Law and Human Rights, University of Helsinki, 24 May 2017 (Invited Speaker)

2017. “Dutch converts to Islam in interwar Europe: Mediators of Muslim Culture and Religion, Conference: “Challenging linguistic and cultural diversity, Intercultural Communication,” Utrecht University, 21 April.

2017. “Het Salafisme: Oorsprong en ontwikkelingen in de moderne tijd”, Orthodoxie versus fundamentalisme: wat is je heilig in het levensbeschouwelijk onderwijs?, Tilburg School of Catholic Theology in samenwerking met Fontys Hogeschool Theologie Levensbeschouwing, Utrecht, 17-18 January.

2016. “European Converts to Islam between Cairo, Mecca and Indian Circles in interwar Europe”, South-South: Intellectual History across Middle East and South Asia, 1857- 1948, Columbia University October 20-21, 2016 (Keynote Speaker)

2016. “The Interaction between the Ahmadiyya (India), Salafiyya and European Converts in the Interwar Period”, Panel: New Muslim Communities in Europe, 1918–1945, Der 51. Deutsche Historikertag (theme: Glaubensfragen), University of Hamburg, 21-23 September.

2016. “Salafism in Egypt in the 1920s–1930s: Between Elitism and Populism”, Panel: Islam and History in Global Modernity, Der 51. Deutsche Historikertag (theme: Glaubensfragen), University of Hamburg, 21-23 September.

2016. “In the lands of colonizers: Muslims in Interwar Europe”, Nation, Culture and Civilisation Talking about and beyond ‘the West’ (1860-1940), University of St Andrews and Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, St Andrews, 3 June (invited speaker).

2016. “Like a mill donkey”: European politics in the aftermath of WWI as reflected in Al-Manar in Cairo”, Human Catastrophe, Then and Now: Social Trauma and Its Political Consequences, 1916 / 2016, Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) American University of Beirut, 1 June (invited speaker)

2016. "European Islam": a counter public or a rhetorical public sphere?,” The role of (Post)colonial Public Intellectuals in Europe: Figures, Ideas and Connections, Utrecht University, 28-29 January 2016.

2016. “Orientalism and Arab Scholarship Entangled: Ahmad Zaki Pasha (1868- 1934) and his Encounters with European Orientalists,” Scholarly Personae in the History of Orientalism, 1870-1930, Leiden University, January 28-29, 2016 (invited speaker).

2016. “Van progressief naar conservatief: De wortels van het salafisme en ontwikkelingen in Europa”, 192ste plenaire SWR-conferentie: Divers geloven in Nederland, KNAW (Dutch Royal Academy of Science), 22-23 January.

2015. “Muslim Religious Hypridity in Interwar Europe: European converts to Islam in Salafiyya and Ahmadiyya networks,” Panel: Muslims in Europe in the Interwar Years: A Trans-cultural Perspective, Middle East Studies Association, Denver, 21-24 November, 2015.

2015. “Muslims in Interwar Europe: A Trans-cultural Historical Perspective”, Islam in/and/of Europe? Perspectives from the Middle Ages to the Post-Secular Age, University of Tübingen in cooperation with the Jean Monnet European Centre of Excellence, University of Trento, Trento, 8-10 October 2015 (invited speaker).

2015. “Early European Orientalists in the Royal Academy of Language in Cairo: A Controversy of Religion, Western Hegemony and Politics (1933)” Jewish Studies Conference, The Reception of European Orientalism in the East: Scholarly Encounters in India, Iran, and the Mashriq during the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Dartmouth College, November 14 and 15, 2015 (invited speaker).

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2015. “A reformist 'Lighthouse" in Cairo: Al-Manar's Early Years and Readership”, Print Culture and Islamic Thought, 1850-1950, Zentrum Moderner Orient – Berlin, 8-9 May.

2015. “Imaging Mohammed between Islamic Law and Practice: A Legalist-historical Approach”, Contested Desires: Figuration and Sensation in Abrahamic Traditions, Centre for Advanced Study, Oslo, April 23 - 24, 2015 (invited speaker).

2015. “A German ‘Illusive Love’: Rashid Rida and the First World War”, The Great War and its Legacy in Central Europe and the Middle East: (Re-)Drawing and Contesting Borders, Nations, Identities, and Spaces, Qatar University (Doha), 11-12 March (Keynote speaker).

2015. “Dutch Converts to Islam and the Construction of Mosques in the Interwar Netherlands”, Panel: Muslim Destinies in Interwar Europe: Laying the Foundations for European Islam, American Historical Association, New York, 2-5 January.

2014. “Islamic Reformism and the Great War: Rashid Rida's perceptions of the First World War in the Muslim World”, Jihad And Other Uses Of Islam In World War I Instrumentalization of religion by the Ottoman Empire, its allies and its enemies, University of Leiden, 13-14 November (invited speaker).

2014. “Muslims in European interwar history,” Panel: History of Islam – Islamic History–History of the Islamic World?, Horizons of Islamic Theology, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 1-4 September (invited speaker).

2014. “Towards a Trans-Cultural History of Muslim Networks in Interwar Europe," Panel: Neither visitors, nor colonial victims: the history of Muslims in interwar Europe, Sponsored by European Research Council (ERC Starting Grant), IV. World Congress for Middle East Studies – WOCMES, Ankara 18- 22 August.

2014. “Salafiyya, Ahmadiyya and European converts to Islam in the interwar period”, Networks of non-European actors in First World War and Interwar Europe, Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), 16 June.

2014. “Friends or Foes: Rashid Rida and his Christian interlocutors”, Jurji Zaidan and Arab Reform, Balamand University (Lebanon), 17-18 May.

2014. “Guests of the Colonizer: Dutch debates on the construction of mosques in the Hague in the Interwar period”, Explorativer Workshop: Den Islam Erinnern. Das kollektive Gedächtnis und seine Lücken: Orte – Institutionen – Genealogien, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, 21-22 March.

2013. “Neither Visitors, nor colonial victims: Muslim Political Activities in Interwar Europe”, Whither the Nation? National identities in the modern Middle East and South Asia, Orient-Institut Beirut and Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) American University of Beirut, 27-29 September.

2013. “On his donkey to the mountain of Arafah: Dr Van der Hoog and his Hajj Journey to Mecca,” Europe and Hajj in the Age of Empires: Muslim Pilgrimage prior to the Influx of Muslim Migration in the West, Leiden University, 13-15 May.

2013. “Arabic, Orientalism and Western diplomacy: Early Orientalist contributions to the Royal Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo,” The evolution of scientific knowledge in the Eastern Mediterranean under European colonial rule, Orient-Institut Beirut, 17-18 May.

2012. “The forms of Islamic State in the Salafi Islamic Thought after the Arabic Spring,” What is Islamisation?, 3rd annual LUCIS conference, The Hague, 15-16 November (invited speaker).

2012. “Putting the Oral Word of Muslim Reform into Print: Al-Manar’s Religious and Political Sermons,” New Roles of the Friday Khutba, New Islamic Public Sphere Programme, University of Copenhagen, 30 August–1 September.

2011. “Salafiyya, Ahmadiyya and European Converts to Islam in the Interwar Period: the Reception of the Conversion of Europeans in Al-Fath magazine in Cairo”, Transnational Islam in interwar Europe, Leiden University, 12-13 December 2011.

2011. “The Roots of Pan-Islamist Reformist Admiration towards Germany in the Interwar Period: Rashid Rida and Al-Manar (1898-1935) as a Case Study”, Panel: Islam in interwar Europe (organized by Umar Ryad), Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Washington DC, 1-5 December 2011.

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2011. “A bridge between old and new: the contributions of early Muslim modernists/reformists to the education at al-Azhar in Egypt,” Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam Historical Foundations– Contemporary Impact, Georg-August University of Göttingen Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies, October 1–5, 2011 (invited speaker).

2011. “Among the believers in the land of the colonizer: Mohammed Ali van Beetem’s role among the Indonesian community in the interwar Netherlands”, Indonesian Islam Different? Islam in Indonesia in a Comparative International Perspective, Leiden University and Islamic State University in Jakarata, 24-26 January, 2011.

2010 “Private Archives and their Role in the study of Muslim Political Movements in interwar Europe: The Case of Zeki Hishmat-Bey Kiram in Berlin”, Archives and the Modern State: Historical Experiences and Future Visions, National Archives of Egypt, Cairo, 17-19 December (invited speaker).

2010. “Fragments of a Global Biography: The Puzzle of the Biography and Network of Zeki Hishmat-Bey Kiram between Berlin, Cairo, and San'aa”, Zukunftphilologie: Revisiting the Canon of Textual Scholarship beyond Europe, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in corporation with the American University in Cairo, Cairo, December 5-16.

2010. “A New Light on Islamic Reformism in interwar Holland”, 44th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, San Diego CA, 18-21 November.

2010. “Mapping Transnational Islam in interwar Europe: Preliminary Research questions”, World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies, Barcelona, 19-24 July.

2010. “A Moroccan Salafi Globetrotter in Nazi Germany: The Intellectual and Political Role of Taqi al-Din al-Hilali during World War II”, Re-mapping divides and interactions: The Fusion of horizons in Middle Eastern-European intellectual encounters, Center for Contemporary Middle East Studies, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, 6-9 May (invited speaker).

2010. “New Light on Rashid Rida’s Sources of Knowledge on the West: with a Special Reference to Christianity,” Change through Tradition: The Role of Tradition in the Transformation of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century Levant, Free University of Berlin, 26-27 February, 2010 (invited speaker).

2009. Roads to Paradise: Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam, Göttingen, 27-31 May, 2009.

2009. “A Godfather of a Generation: Shakib Arslan’s Influence on Moroccan Nationalism in the light of unpublished materials”, Change and Stability. State, Religion and Politics in the Modern Middle East and North Africa, Jagiellonian University in Cracow, 28-29 May.

2009. “Islamic Reformism and Great Britain: Rashid Rida’s Images as reflected in Al-Manar Journal in Cairo”, Britain and the Muslim World: Historical perspectives, University of Exeter, 17-19 April.

2007. “Rashid Rida’s fatwas to Muslims under non-Muslim Role”, Christian and Muslim Minorities in Transition in Europe and the Middle East, University of Antwerp, 5-7 December.

2007. “The Dismissal of A.J. Wensinck from the Royal Academy of Arabic in Cairo”, Academic Freedom and Religious Freedom: Tensions and Compromises in the Coexistence of Two Fundamental Rights, Leiden University, 27-28 February.

2006. “Islamic Perspectives on Interreligious Dialogue”, Holy Books – Platform for Dialogue?, Faculty of Theology at the UKSW (Warsaw) and SVD Bible Apostolate (Laskowice Pomorskie), 4 October (invited speaker).

2006. “An Islamic ‘Lighthouse’ versus Evangelism: Rashid Rida’s Perceptions of Social and Theological Aspects of Mission’, Social dimension of mission in the Middle East -19th and 20 century, Faculty of Protestant Theology at Marburg University and the Fliedner-Foundation Kaiserswerth, Düsseldorf, 13-15 March (invited speaker).

2005. “A printed Muslim ‘Lighthouse’ in Cairo”, Sacred Texts and Print Culture: The case of the Qur’an and Bible of the Orthodox Churches during the 18th and 19 century, Central European University, Budapest, 2-4 December (invited speaker).

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2005. “Muslim Response to Missionary Activities in Egypt: With a Special Reference to Al-Azhar High Corps of Ulama”, New Faith in Ancient Lands: The dynamics of western missions in the Middle East (1800-1914), University of Leiden, Faculty of Theology, 27-29 January.

2003. “Muslim Reactions to Missionary Activities to Missionary literature in Egypt: Variety of Muslim Apologetics during the Late Nineteenth and Early twentieth Centuries”, The International Congress on Religious Change in Pluralistic Contexts, LISOR, Leiden, 28-30 August.

Expert meetings and invited lectures: 2018. “Islamic Reformism and Western Christianity: Al-Manar’s Responses to Missionary Work in

Egypt,” The Christian-Muslim Studies Network, University of Edinburgh, November 1 2017. “The Hajj and European Imperial Powers: Between Pan-Islam, the Cholera, Shipping Trade”,

Public Lecture Series: The Middle East in Global History – Global History in the Middle East, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, University of Zurich, 15 May

2017. “Salafism between Reformist and Puritan Islam in the interwar period," Lecture Series Islamic Reform, Institute of Islamic Theology, University of Osnabrück, 12 April

2017. Umar Ryad en Sophie Spaan, 'Moskeeën en de koloniale islampolitiek in West Europa in het interbellum’ afscheidscongres Dr. Freek Bakker: “Wat maakt een plek die voorheen niet heilig was, heilig?”, Utrecht University, 25 January

2016. “What went wrong with Salafism: A historical approach to modern Islam”, Leuven Interdisciplinary Islam Seminar: KU Leuven, 15 December

2016. “Muslim Reform at the Periphery in the colonial age: Rashid Rida's Views of Islam and Christian Missions in Sub-Saharan Africa”, Summer School: Christians and Muslims in Africa. Towards a Framework for the Study of Multi-Religious Settings, ZMO, Berlin, 14-20 July 2016.

2016. “In de landen van overheersers: Moslims in Europa in het interbellum”, Bessensap 2016, de Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk onderzoek (NWO) en de Vereniging van Wetenschapsjournalisten Nederland (VWN), Amsterdam, 10 June.

2016. Seminar (together with Mehdi Sajid): “Neither visitors, nor colonial victims: Muslims in interwar Europe”, The Cambridge Middle East History Group, Faculty of History, Cambridge University, 3 May

2016. “Muslim modernism in interwar Europe”, Seminar: CEMS-Low Countries: A Comparative Approach to Modernism, Utrecht University 9 May

2016. “Religion as counter-politics in Post-revolutionary Egypt”, The Arab Uprisings Five Years Later, International Institute for Social History (IISH) Amsterdam, 15 April.

2016. “Muslim Responses to Christian Missions in Interwar Egypt”, Engaging Europe in the Arab World: European missionaries and humanitarianism in the Middle East (1850-1970), Leiden University, 14 April.

2016. “Contested knowledge, contested authority: The study of Islamic Theology in the Netherlands”, Berlin Forum for Muslim Thinking: Uncertain Times – Muslim Answers to Today’s Challenges, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Berlin, 6- 8 April.

2016. “Mediators of Religious Modernity: European Converts to Islam in Interwar Europe,” Reviving previous times and expanding horizons: Islam and Modernity in global historical perspective, Istanbul NISIS Spring School, organized by The Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies (NISIS), The Institut d’études de l’Islam et des Sociétés du Monde Musulman (IISMM), 14-18 March (keynote lecture).

2016. “Muslims in interwar Europe: A Transcultural Historical Perspective”, Public Lecture, Fatih University in Istanbul, 16.

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2016. “Muslims in Interwar Europe: A Transcultural Historical Perspective,” Urban Studies Talks, Center for Urban Studies & Department of Sociology, İstanbul Şehir University, 17 March.

2016. “Salafism between ‘Progressive Reformism’ and ‘Regressive Radicalism’,” Public Lecture, Department of Sociology & School of Islamic Studies, İstanbul Şehir University, 17 March.

2015. Seminar: “Muslims in Europe in the Interwar Years,” The CMES Director’s Series and the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, Harvard University, 16 November.

2015. Panel Discussion: “Arab Family Archives and Trans-cultural Colonial History from Below”, Zukunftsphilologie Winter Academy World Scripts: Concepts and Practices of Writing from a Comparative Perspective 4-14 September 2015, University of Cape Town.

2015. “Zeki Hishmat Bey Kiram: Osmaanse Officier van Sinai front naar Duitsland”, Personal Memoirs from WWI, Center for Public Debate, The Hague, February 26.

2015. Book presentation, Exchanged letters between Shakib Arslan and Mohammed Daoud, Dutch-Flemish Institute in Cairo in cooperation with the National Archives of Egypt, 2 February.

2012. “The ideological shifts in the thinking of the Muslim Brotherhood,” Seminar: The Politics of the Muslim Brotherhood, Clingendael Institute and Erasmus University, The Hague, 19 December.

2012. “Muslim presence and networks in Europe in the interwar and during war period: Questions for further research”, International Research Colloquium, Islamic Studies - University of Bonn, 5 October.

2012. “A Muslim reformist imagination of Germany before the Nazi period: Rashid Rida and his sources of information as a case study,” Middle Eastern Travels and Travelogues - Textual Interpretations and Methodologies, BMBF Research Group „Europe from the Outside“, Bonn University, 19 July.

2012. "A Salafi Student in Orientalist Philology in Nazi Germany: Taqi al-Din al-Hilali and His Academic Experience in Germany 1930-40", Zukunftsphilologie Lecture Series, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, June 14.

2012. Invited participation (via nomination), “Religion and Historical Inquiry”, Kandersteg Seminar, Remarque Institute, New York University, Kandersteg (Switzerland), 28 March - 1 April.

2011. Lecturing during the Series “De avond van [De Koran, Mohammed en Allah] (The Evening of [The Qur’an, Mohammed and Allah])”, De Nieuwe Liefde {established by the Dutch Theologian and Poet Huub Oosterhuis}, Amsterdam.

2011 Book presentation, Documents on the German Arms Trade in the Arabian Peninsula: Readings in the Archive of Zeki Kiram, Dutch-Flemish Institute in Cairo in cooperation with the National Archives of Egypt.

2011. “Achter religieuze grenzen. Hoe kunnen religieuze verschillen in Nederland het verschil maken?, public debate, Free University of Amsterdam (VU), 22 september.

2011. “Building up an Islamic reformist readership community in South East Asia: Rashid Rida’s influence and Networks in Indonesia,” Public Lecture, The Islamic Academy of Banten (Indonesia), 20 January.

2010. “Zukunftphilologie: Revisiting the Canon of Textual Scholarship beyond Europe”, International Winter School, Free University of Berlin, at the American University Cairo, December 5-16.

2009. Invited participation: Islam in Europe: What Model?, Casablanca, June 20-21. 2008. Participation in the research/expert meeting on the education of Imams in Europe, The

Swedish Ministry of Education, Stockholm, 19 November. 2007. “Money and Wealth: An Islamic Perspective”, Gott.Geld.Kunst.Kapital, Artneuland Berlin, 7

September. 2007. Invited response to the paper, ‘An Islamic approach to primitive innocence’, by Hasan Hanafi,

presented at the NOSTER international third congress, the Ambivalence of Sainthood and Sin, 24-25 April.

2006. Invited response to the lecture of David Ford, 'Inter-Faith Wisdom as a Challenge to Contemporary Theology’’, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 7 December.

2005. Summer Academy “Experts and Mediators of Knowledge in the 20th Century: Transregional Perspectives,” Wissenschaftskolleg, Akademie Schmoeckwitz, Berlin, 4-11 September.

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2005. Summer School “Bookish Traditions: Authority and the Book in Scripturalist Religions,” Central European University, Budapest, 4-15 July.

2003. Participation in the 10th session of the European Council for Fatwa and Research in Dublin, 22-27 January.

PhD Supervision First Supervisor: Sophie Spaan, Muslim Religious Identities and Institutions in interwar Europe, ERC project, Utrecht

University Andrei Tirtan, Pan-Islam and Political Activism in interwar Europe, ERC project, Utrecht University Co-promotor: Hayat Ahili, From Reformist to Radical Salafi Thought: A Modern Publication History of Ibn Taymiyya’s

Fatwas (d. 1328 CE), (in samenwerking met Christian Lange), Universiteit Utrecht Judith Kindinger, The Dymanics of Idenitity formation of Egyptian Christians and Muslims from 13th to

20th century (Prof. Dr. R.B. ter Haar Romeny, Prof. Dr. P.M. Sijpesteijn and Umar Ryad) Faculty of Humanities, VU.

Oriana Gaetaniello, Between Isolation and Global Reception: The Figure of Muhammad Rashid Rida in the Context of the Islamic Reform Scene, (Prof. Dr. G. Krämer, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Freitag and Umar Ryad) FU Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies.

Konkabayeva Nazym, Foreign Supervisor (Supervisor R.A. Avakova), Faculty of Oriental Studies of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Kazakhstan (External supervisor).

Reading and Defense Committees: Mufti Ali, Muslim opposition to logic and theology in the light of the works of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī

(d.911/1505), Department of Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, 4 November 2008 (Defense Committee)

Khaled Mohamed Mahmoud Younes, Joy and sorrow in early Muslim Egypt : Arabic papyrus letters, text and content, Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, 27 August 2013 (Defense Committee)

Mohammed S.H. Alsulami, Iranian Orientalism: notions of the other in modern Iranian thought, Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, 5 February 2014 (Defense Committee)

R.W. Visser, Identities in early Arabic journalism: The case of Louis Ṣābūnjī, Amsterdam School for Culture and History (ASCH), Faculty of Humanities, 6 February 2014 (Reading and Defense Committee)

Moosa Abdo Ali Elayah, Donors-promoted public sector reforms in developing countries and the Local Knowledge Syndrome : the Dutch-Yemen NPT Program for developing the Higher Education Sector in Yemen, Institute of Public Administration, Campus the Hague, Leiden University, 17 April 2014 (Defense Committee)

Mohsen Abdelaty Haredy Khalifa, Female Transmission of Hadith in the Mamluk Period: an annotated edition and study of Ibn Hajar's Mu`jam Ash-Shaykhah Maryam, Institute of Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, 29 April 2014 (Defense Committee)

Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany, Islamic burials in the Netherlands and Belgium. Legal, religious and social aspects, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Developmental Sociology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University, 16 September 2014 (Defense Committee)

Abdessamad El Amraoui, “Authentic Islam”: the religious profile of Taqī al-Dīn al-Hilālī (1893-1987) as reflected in his fatwas, Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion, Faculty of the Humanities, Leiden University, 6 May 2015 (Reading and Defense Committee)

Ammeke Kateman, Defining Islam as a Modern Religion: Muhammad 'Abduh (1849-1905) and his Interlocutors, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, 4 March 2016 (Reading and Defense committee)

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Tineke Rooijakkers, Dress norms and markers: A comparative study of Coptic identity and dress in the past and present, 10 March 2016, Faculty of Humanities, VU (Defense Committee)

Omar Sayfo, Arab Media Industries and Identity Politics: The Case of Arab Animated Cartoons, 10 June 2016, Faculty of Humanities, Utrecht University (Reading and Defense Committee)

Ali Al Tuma, Guns, Culture and Moors: Racial stereotypes and cultural impacts of the Moroccan participation in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), History Department, Leiden University, October 2016 (Reading and Defense Committee).

Arjan Post, The Journey of a Taymiyyan Sufi: Sufism Through the Eyes of ʿImād al-Dīn Aḥmad al-Wāsiṭī (d. 711/1311), Utrecht University, 27 November, 2017 (Defense Committee).

S. Al Daghistani, Epistemological Inquiry into Islam’s Moral Economic Teachings, Legal Discourse, and Islamization Process, Leiden University, 30 November, 2017 ( Reading and Defense Committee)

Press, Radio and TV Interviews 2017. Café Weltschmerz, Opkomst van de islam en het salafisme, deel 1 & 2 (Interview: Hans van

der Jagt”, 26 May, 2017 & June, 2017. 2016. “Waarom waren Europeanen een eeuw geleden verliefd op de Islam?”, De Universiteit van

Nederland, 13 December 2016. Interview (Arabic) about the edited volume The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire, Al-Hajj

wa al-Umrah Magazine, Saudi Ministry of Hajj, 27 December. 2016. “Muhammad Sadiq Pasha: The First Photographer of Mecca and Madina (Arabic), The Egyptian

Daily Al-Ahram, 9 September 2016. “The Hajj in the Colonial Age: Politics, Diseases and Espionage” (Arabic), The Egyptian Daily Al-

Ahram, 2 September 2016. “From Reform and Revival to the Renewal of Religious Discourse” (Arabic), The Egyptian Daily

Al-Ahram, 12 July 2016. “Staan we aan de voet van de Derde Wereldoorlog?,” Interview: Zaman Vandaag, 28 March 2016. “The First Dutch documentary on the Hajj (1928),” Interview (Arabic): Al-Qafilah magazine,

Saudi Aramco, January-February (in Arabic) 2016. “Eerste Moskee in Nederland bestaat al 60 jaar”, Interview: Zaman Vandaag, 8 January 2015. “De eerste moskee van Nederland,” Interview: Met het oog op morgen, Radio 1, 8 December 2015. “Muslim Intellectuals in Interwar Europe”, Interview about the ERC project: Al-Qafilah

magazine, Saudi Aramco (Together with Mehdi Sajid), November-December (In Arabic) 2015. “Islam tijdens het Interbellum,” MO Actueel, A documentary about the ERC project “Muslims

in interwar Europe”, Dutch Muslim Broadcasting, Dutch TV2, 6 June 2015. “Aangepaste boodschap, zelfde toon.” Interview over Hirsi Ali’s Ketters in Erasmus

Journalisten, 26 March 2014. “Moslims in Nederland in het interbellum (Muslim in The Netherlands in the interwar period),”

Dichtbij Nederland, Radio 5, 17 December 2014. “MO Actueel: De Eerste Wereldoorlog en de islamitische wereld (WWI and the Muslim

World,” Dutch Muslim Broadcasting, Dutch TV2, 13 December. 2014. “Het belang van het offeren in religies (The Significance of Sacrifice in Religions)”, Muslim

Broadcasting, Dutch TV 2, 29 September. 2014. “Kalifaat, wat houdt dat in? (The Caliphate: What does it mean?),” Muslim Broadcasting, Dutch

TV2, 13 September. 2013. “Moslimintellectuelen in Europa (Muslim Intellectuals in Europe),” Hoezo wetenschapscafé,

NTR Radio, 13 June. 2013. “Nederland was erg laat met moskee,” Interview: Trouw, 25 February 2011 “De beschaving in Nederland”, ZOZ: VPRO, with Huub Oosterhuis, 31 December 2011 Website Video Interview, “Our Shared Future: 100 Questions about Islam”, British Council,

British Consulate General, New York 2009 Interview, “Insight”, Iqraa International TV, Cairo, 4 August 2009 ObaLive, Radio Dutch Muslim Broadcasting, 15 September

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2009 “Ramadan Special”, Dutch Muslim Broadcasting (NMO), 30 August 2009 “Moslims naar de top (Muslims to the Top)”, Dutch Muslim Broadcasting (NMO), 28 June 2009 ObaLive, Radio of the Dutch Muslim Broadcasting (NMO), 7 April 2008 Interview, Dutch Muslim Broadcasting (NMO), “Uitkijken naar de Hajj (Longing to the

Pilgrimage)”, 16 November 2008 2008 Dutch Muslim Broadcasting (NMO), “Fatwa's via de satelliet (Fatwas by satellites)”, 5 October

2008. 2007 Interview, Egyptian Cultural TV, June, 2007

Languages Arabic (mother tongue), English (fluent), Dutch (fluent), German (basic), and French (elementary).