Researching Salafi-jihadi Groups: Using the Example of Boko Haram
Prof. David Cook (Rice University, Houston)
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Campus Westend, Hörsaalzentrum, HZ 14
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David Cook is associate professor of religion at Rice University specializing in Islam. He did his undergraduate degrees at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 2002. His areas of specialization include early Islamic history and development, Muslim apocalyptic literature and movements (classical and contemporary), radical Islam, historical astronomy and Judeo-Arabic literature.
Cook is working on classical Muslim apocalyptic literature, translating the sources, such as Nu`aym b. Hammad al-Marwazi’s Kitab al-fitan, as well as having recently become the co-editor for Edinburgh University Press’ series on Islamic Apocalyptic and Eschatology (with Christian Lange of the University of Utrecht). He is also sponsoring research on Boko Haram’s ideology, working with Ph.D. student Abdul Basit Kassem and Rice University Post-Graduate Fellow Michael Nwankpa on the group’s texts and videos in order to translate them into English.
Convener: Prof. Dr. Dorothea Weltecke (Professorin für Mittelalterliche Geschichte an der Goethe-Universität und Principal Investigator des Excellenzclusters „Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen“)
Veranstalter:
Exzellenzcluster „Die Herausbildung normativer Ordnungen“ in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kolleg „Geschichte religiöser Dynamiken“ am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften und dem LOEWE-Forschungsschwerpunkt „Religiöse Positionierung: Modalitäten und Konstellationen in jüdischen, christlichen und islamischen Kontexten“.