Tenure Track Position on Islamic Origins, University of Groningen, Netherlands

Tenure Track Position on Islamic Origins, University of Groningen,
Netherlands

The Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies invites applications for
a full-time Tenure Track position leading towards a full Professorship
in Islamic Origins, starting fall 2011.

The successful candidate has a solid basis in the early intellectual
history of Islam and is able to discuss the formation of Islam in its
relation to Jewish and Christian origins. The faculty’s expertise in
Jewish and Christian Origins will provide a stimulating context for a
joined, interdisciplinary study of Islam in its formative period and
its interrelation with early Judaism and Christianity. The
complexities and diversity of early Islamic history should ideally be
addressed in a referential framework of pluralism, text-criticism,
canonization, and interreligious interaction. This forms the
background for discussing the emergence of certain stereotypes and
polemics that influence the modern Western discourse related to
'Islam.' The candidate should be able to address these cultural,
political, and social processes as well, thus extending the religious
dynamics of the Late Antique period to the genealogy of 'multiple
modernities'.

Deadline for application: 7 January 2011.

Information: http://www.rug.nl/ggw/vacatures/RosalindFranklin/Fellowships