Graduate School in Islamology

Islamology, the Swedish term for the academic field of "Islamic Studies", is one of the more well-known fields within the Humanities in Sweden and has, since it was established in the early 1980s, attracted both public attention and a set of highly successful scholars.

The latter is evidenced by the fact that six universities and one university college in Sweden today house full professors specialized in the study of Islam. These professors constitute the collective behind the current application for a graduate school in Islamology.

The objective of the graduate school is to train a new generation of researchers in the field, utilizing a strong internal network and wide-ranging external networks of scholars and institutions worldwide.

Within the former there is a tradition of national collaboration as well as extensive collective competence in diverse theories and methods, empirical contexts contemporary as well as historical, and skills in various Islamic source languages.

The school is coordinated by Linnaeus University, but rests upon a model of intense and continuous cooperation between the participating seven centers of higher learning in providing on-line and off-line seminars, retreats and mandatory as well as elective courses in Islamology based on shared competences as well as on competences specific for each university/university college, and the various research environments available there.