Angeliki Ziaka

Mahdi Visiting Research Fellow (Spring 2017)

Dr. Ziaka (Ph.D., University of Strasbourg, 2002) is Associate Professor of Religion and the scientific coordinator of the new Undergraduate Program on Islamic Studies at the School of Theology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and visiting professor at the Schools of Political Science and Education. She studied at the Institute of Arabic and Islamic Studies in Rome, the History Department of the Royal University of Amman, and has conducted research in Iran and Oman since 2006. Dr. Ziaka was a LUCIS Fall Fellow in 2014 (Leiden University Centre for the study of Islam and Society).

Her publications include La Recherche Grecque contemporaine et l’Islam (Strasbourg 2002 / Lille, 2004); Shi‘ism. Religious and Political Dimensions in the Middle East (Thessaloniki, 2004, in Greek); Between Polemics and Dialogue: Byzantine, Post Byzantine and Contemporary Greek Literature on Islam (Thessaloniki, 2010, in Greek); Interreligious Dialogue: The Meeting of Christianity with Islam (Thessaloniki, 2010, in Greek); Early Islamic Apocalyptic and Messianic Movements: Mahdi the Eschatological Savior (Thessaloniki, 2011, in Greek); On Ibadism (Hildesheim/N.Y., 2014); Kalam and the Islamic Trends of Thought (Thessaloniki, 2016, in Greek).