Sami Al-Daghistani
Visiting Research Scholar
Sami Al-Daghistani is a Research Scholar at the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, an Associate Faculty Member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR), and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Islamic Studies at the Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society (MF) in Oslo, Norway. His teaching and research focus on Islamic intellectual history, economic and environmental thought, and on Islam and modernity. Sami achieved a PhD in Islamic Studies (2017, supervision at Leiden University, Columbia University, and WWU Münster). From 2017-19 he was a Research Scholar at the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life at Columbia University and in 2017-18 a Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo. In 2015-17 he was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, working under the supervision of Wael Hallaq, and in 2014-15 a Lecturer at Leiden University. He has published on Islamic intellectual history and ethics, as well as edited two volumes on the Second Gulf War (2010), and on Middle Eastern culture and politics (2013). He translated Ibn Baṭṭūta’s Riḥla (2017) and Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥay ibn Yaqẓān (2016) into Slovenian. His recent publications are Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī's Ethical Teachings: Economics of Happiness (Anthem Press, 2021), The Making of Islamic Economic Thought: Islamization, Law, and Moral Discourses (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and a special issue Pluralism in Emergenc(i)es in the Middle East and North Africa (Review of Middle East Studies, 2021).