Islam Dayeh

Arcapita Visiting Professor in Modern Arab Studies (Fall 2022)

Islam Dayeh is an Assistant Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.

He received his PhD from Freie Universität Berlin in Arabic studies, MA degrees from the University of Leiden (Islamic studies) and the University of Oxford (Jewish studies), as well as a BA degree from the University of Jordan in Amman.

He is the director of the research programme Zukunftsphilologie: Revisiting the Canons of Textual Scholarship (2010-), and the founding editor of the journal and monograph series Philological Encounters (2016-). His recent publications include: “From Taṣḥīḥ to Taḥqīq: Toward a History of the Arabic Critical Edition” (2019); Reading Wittgenstein in Arabic (2021, special issue, as editor), and “Philology and Microhistory: A Conversation with Carlo Ginzburg” (2022).

He was recently awarded a European Research Council Consolidator-Grant for his project “Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures” (2022-2026). In 2018, he was an Edward W. Said Fellow at the Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia.

As the Arcapita Visiting Professor at Columbia University, he is teaching a graduate course on “Forms and Practices of Islamic Knowledge”.