- Lund University, Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, Department Memberadd
- Dr Stenberg received his PhD in History of Religions from Lund University, Sweden, in 1996. The title of his thesis w... moreDr Stenberg received his PhD in History of Religions from Lund University, Sweden, in 1996. The title of his thesis was 'The Islamization of Science: Four Muslim Positions Developing an Islamic Modernity'.
His research interests are Islam and modern science, various aspects of contemporary Sufism, Muslims in Europe, Islamic movements, questions concerning theory and method in the study of Islam.
In 1996-1997, Stenberg was an Assistant Professor in History of Religions at Uppsala University. From 1997 to 1999, he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University. The following year (1999-2000), Stenberg was a visiting scholar at the Institut Français d’Études Arabes de Damas (IFEAD) in Damascus, Syria.
He also worked at Växjö University (today Linné University), but since 2001 he held a position at Lund University in Islamology and then became an Associate Professor in 2003. From 2005 until 2007, Stenberg was the Head of Islamology at Lund University. However, in 2007 he was appointed Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) at LU. After being appointed Director, he built and expanded the CMES dramatically in regard to the increase of employees, external funding and annual turnover. In October 2011, he was appointed full Professor in Islamology at LU.
On 1 April 2017, Stenberg took up the position as the Director of the Aga Khan University (International) in the U.K. - Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London. In February 2017, he was also appointed as a full Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the Aga Khan University.
Since 2010, Stenberg has been the President of the Nordic Society of Middle Eastern Studies and he is a member of the World Congress of Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES) Council. He has also been the Vice-President of the European Association for Middle Eastern Studies (EURAMES) since 2014.
Since 2013, he has also been serving at the Expert Committee of Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Council of Norway. One of his most recent publication is an edited volume (co-edited with Christa Salamandra) entitled 'From Reform to Revolt Vol. II: Culture Society and Religion' (Syracuse University Press, 2015).edit
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Syria from Reform to Revolt, Vol. 2 is the second collection of essays drawn from " Syria under Bashar al-Asad, " the first international, interdisciplinary gathering of scholarly experts on contemporary Syria, held Lund University's... more
Syria from Reform to Revolt, Vol. 2 is the second collection of essays drawn from " Syria under Bashar al-Asad, " the first international, interdisciplinary gathering of scholarly experts on contemporary Syria, held Lund University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies in October 2010. The first volume focuses on political economy and international relations; this book explores the quotidian politics emerging in cultural production and religious expression. Our volume fills a longstanding need—intensified since the beginning of the conflict in 2011—for ethnographically grounded, historically inflected analyses of Syrian society. We provide novel perspectives on how Bashar al-Asad's pivotal first decade of rule engendered transformations in power relations that fed the protest movement turned civil and proxy war. The volume has just entered its second printing.
Research Interests: Television Studies, Syrian History, Syria, Islam, Middle Eastern Culture and Politics, and 8 moreDissidence, Religion, Politics, and Culture in the Middle East and North Africa, Middle Eastern Dances, Syrian Conflict, Syrian Civil War, Sectraianism, syria Bashar al-Assad regime Baath, and Syrian religion
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A report on Muslim congregations and societies in the Malmö and Lund region.
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GeneralIslam and Islamic Groups: A Worldwide Reference Guide. Farzana Shaikh (ed.), 1992. London, Longman. x + 316 pp., hb £85.00, ISBN 0–582–09146–2.Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. Vol. 2: The Contemporary Period. Andrew... more
GeneralIslam and Islamic Groups: A Worldwide Reference Guide. Farzana Shaikh (ed.), 1992. London, Longman. x + 316 pp., hb £85.00, ISBN 0–582–09146–2.Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. Vol. 2: The Contemporary Period. Andrew Rippin, 1993. London & New York, Routledge. 171 pp., hb. £35.00, ISBN 0–415–04527–4; pb. £12.99, 0–415–04528–2.The Medieval Spains. Bernard F. Reilly, 1993. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 228
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... Serif Mardin God and juggernaut: Iran's Intellectual Encounter with Modernity Farzin Vahdat Iranian ... Yet Boroujerdi is cautiously op-timistic that Third-World intellectuals may redefine separate ... Islam, as also... more
... Serif Mardin God and juggernaut: Iran's Intellectual Encounter with Modernity Farzin Vahdat Iranian ... Yet Boroujerdi is cautiously op-timistic that Third-World intellectuals may redefine separate ... Islam, as also represented by Persian-American scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr and ...
Drawing on a wide range of recent ethnographic research, this eclectic volume examines Sufism across a broad cultural spectrum of the global Muslim world. Edited by Catharina Raudvere of the University of Copenhagen and Leif Stenberg of... more
Drawing on a wide range of recent ethnographic research, this eclectic volume examines Sufism across a broad cultural spectrum of the global Muslim world. Edited by Catharina Raudvere of the University of Copenhagen and Leif Stenberg of Lund University, the book's twelve ...