Leif Stenberg, Date of Birth
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Scholar within Islam with special interests in Syria and Science.
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About Leif Stenberg
- Leif Stenberg (Ph.D) is the Dean of the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations at the Aga Khan University (International) in London.
- He is the former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University.
- Leif Stenberg received his B.A degree from Lund University in 1987 and wrote his doctoral thesis on the Islamization of science, supervised by Jan Hjärpe, in 1996.
- Stenberg's work has been influenced by both Jan Hjärpe and Michel Foucault, which is apparent in his doctoral thesis, where Foucauldian concepts and definitions are used.
- His interests also include contemporary Sufism, which he has been actively researching since the mid-1990s.In 2009 Stenberg criticised the Rosengårdsrapporten report by security expert Magnus Ranstorp which contained assertions that there was a growing jihadist movement in the Rosengård suburb in Malmö as being "full of prejudice" and lacking academic depth.
- This criticism turned into controversy when it in 2016 turned out that terrorist Osama Krayem had grown up in the area.
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