Application deadline: 22 December 2024.
About the PhD Position
The Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies is coordinating the Strategic Research Area (SRA) and the research program “The Middle East in the Contemporary World” (MECW). The program conducts cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on the Middle East and comprises more than 40 scholars from five different faculties at Lund University.
The PhD position is part of the research project, “Economic Cosmology: Ethics, Sustainability, and the Nonhuman in the Muslim World” funded by MECW and led by Associate Professor Sami Al-Daghistani. It is devised as a critical and comparative study of contemporary (21st century) economic and environmental projects in the Middle East and pre-modern (8th-16th century) understandings of economic thought and the nonhuman across the Muslim world. The project analyzes sources form Islamic traditions – both pre-modern and contemporary – as resources for a new ethics of sustainability and places itself at the forefront of an on-going discussion on economic and environmental concerns, as well as their relation to knowledge production. The PhD candidate is expected to investigate Islamic ethical theories in relation to economic (and environmental) approaches, initiatives, and discourses and their various considerations across the greater Middle East. The PhD candidate will hence investigate both textual sources (Arabic, Persian, etc.) and contemporary materials and institutions on these topics.
Application Process
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