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dr. Yaser Ellethy


Associate Professor, Faculty of Religion and Theology, Beliefs and Practices

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Yaser Ellethy, is rector-director of the Centre for Islamic Theology at the Faculty of Religion and Theology - VU University Amsterdam, and president of the European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS). He holds a PhD in Islamic Theology. He also holds a second PhD in Philology. His research activity focuses mainly on the exegesis tradition and the hermeneutics of the Quran and Hadith, the diachronic development of Islamic thought, Islam in Western context especially with regard to democracy, pluralism and Islam and otherness. He has published articles and books in English, Greek, Dutch, French and Arabic.

Teaching

Introduction to the Quran and Hadith/Sunnah 

Usul al-Tafsir (Methodology of Quranic Exegesis) 

Hadith Sciences

Usul al-Fiqh (Methodology of Islamic Jurisprudence/Law)

Comparative Fiqh 

Supervision MA and BA theses

Teaching evaluations average: 4.8/5

Teacher of the Year, 2019, FRT, VU Amsterdam

Ancillary activities

President of The European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS)

Board member of The Foundation for the Quality Register of Spiritual Caregivers in the Netherlands (SKGV)

Associate editor of the peer reviewed Journal of Interreligious Studies and Intercultural Theology (ISIT).

Member of The Amsterdam Centre for Religion and Sustainable Development (ACRSD)

Editorial board member of the peer-reviewed Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion (NTT).

External referee of the Academic Electoral Committees, Greek Ministry of Education for the evaluation and promotion of Islamic Studies teaching staff for academic positions in Greek universities

Senior member of the Netherlands Interuniversity School of Islamic Studies (NISIS)

Member of Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion (NOSTER)

 

Ancillary activities
  • President European Society for Intercultural Theology and Interreligious Studies (ESITIS)ESITIS | Amsterdam | President | 2022-09-01 - present

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