Safet Bektovic
Academic interest/research areas:
Islamic philosophy and theology, Sufism, Social ethics, Islamic aesthetics, Philosophy of religion, Soeren Kierkegaard, Interreligious theology, Comparative religions, Christian-Muslim dialogue, Balkan Muslims
Background/education:
2000-2002: Post. Doc. at the University of Copenhagen (Culture and Religious encounters in Denmark)
1996-2000: PhD - at the University of Copenhagen (Søren Kierkegaard in relation to Islam)
1989-1992: PhD in modern Philosophy at the University of Sarajevo (unfinished because of the war in Bosnia)
1985-1989: MA in philosophy and sociology at the University of Prishtina
Work/teaching:
2016 - Associate Professor of theological studies of Islam
2011 - 2015 Guest teachers at the Faculty of Theology in Oslo - teaching in Islamic philosophy and theology, Islamic mysticism in a comparative perspective, Islam, Christianity and the West
2007-2011 - Associate Professor at the Centre for European Islamic Thought - University of Copenhagen (Islamic Studies)
2003 - 2006 – External Lecturer at the Faculty of Theology - University of Copenhagen (teaching in Islamic theology, Social ethics in Islam and Christianity).
2000-2003 – Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Theology – University of Copenhagen
Books / dissertations:
-
“Islamic Philosophy. Background, classical problems and contemporary expressions”, ANIS, Copenhagen, 2012.
-
“Cultural and religious encounters in Denmark. Identity formation among young Christians and Muslims”, Museum Tusculanums Forlag, Copenhagen, 2004.
-
“Passion of faith in Søren Kierkegaard and Sufism”, University of Copenhagen, 1999. (Doctoral dissertation, however, not published as a book)
Publications
- Bektovic, Safet (2020). Muslim Theology in the Context of an Originally Christian faculty. Pluralisation of Theology at Oslo University, In Oddbjørn Birger Leirvik; Wolfram Weisse; Julia Ipgrave & Muna Tatari (ed.), Pluralisation of Theologies at European Universities. Waxmann Verlag. ISBN 978-3-8309-4201-6. III. s 249 - 260
- Bektovic, Safet (2020). The Signs of a Hidden God. Dialectics of Veiling and Unvieiling God in Islam, In Marius Timmann Mjaaland (ed.), The Reformation of Philosophy. Mohr Siebeck. ISBN 9783161592188. I. s 49 - 60 Full text in Research Archive.
- Bektovic, Safet (2019). DIJALOGOM PROTIV ISKLJUČIVOSTI – KRŠĆANSKOMUSLIMANSKI ODNOSI U DANSKOJ. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ISLAMIC PEDAGOGICAL FACULTY IN ZENICA. ISSN 1840-4448. (17), s 41- 54 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary
- Bektovic, Safet (2019). Islamska teologija i obrazovanje imama u Skandinaviji. Novi Muallim. ISSN 1512-6560. (78), s 45- 55 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary
- Bektovic, Safet (2019). Religionskritik og selvkritik i islam. Kirke og kultur. ISSN 0023-186X. 123(03), s 243- 254 . doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3002-2019-03-04
- Iversen, Hans Raun & Bektovic, Safet (2019). Islam og kristendom mellem gudstro og samfundsdannelse. Tidsskrift om islam og kristendom. ISSN 1902-5823. (1/19), s 1- 20 . doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3002-2020-01-04
- Bektovic, Safet (2017). Developing Islamic Theology in the European Context, In Simone Sinn; Dina El Omari & Anne Hege Grung (ed.), Transformative Readings of Sacred Scriptures. Christians and Muslims in Dialogue. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt - Wissenschaft. ISBN 9783374054305. kapittel. s 79 - 90
- Bektovic, Safet (2016). Betydningen af islamisk teologi historisk og aktuelt. Teologisk Tidsskrift. ISSN 1893-0263. 5(3), s 248- 262 . doi: 10.18261/issn.1893-0271-2016-03-05
- Bektovic, Safet (2016). Towards a neo-modernist Islam: Fazlur Rahman and the rethinking of Islamic tradition and modernity. Studia Theologica - Nordic Journal of Theology. ISSN 0039-338X. 70(2), s 160- 178 . doi: 10.1080/0039338X.2016.1253260
- Thielmann, Jorn & Bektovic, Safet (2018). European Islam in the Light of the Bosnian Experience. Brill Academic Publishers. ISBN 978-90-04-36249-9. 13 s.
- Bektovic, Safet (2019, 30. oktober). Blåser nytt liv i debatten om imamutdanning. Universitas.
- Bektovic, Safet (2019). Challenges in developing Islamic theology and imam training in Scandinavia.
- Bektovic, Safet (2019, 07. april). En ensom tro. Vårt Land.
- Bektovic, Safet (2019, 28. oktober). Islamstudier er godt representert ved Det teologiske fakultet. Vårt Land.
- Bektovic, Safet (2019). Komunikacija i dijelektika saopštavanja kod Kierkegaarda.
- Bektovic, Safet (2019). Zadužbine u skandinaviji: luteranska tradicija i društvo blagostanja (Religiøse stiftelser i Skandinavia: lutheransk tradisjon og velferdssamfunn).
- Bektovic, Safet (2018). Islamic and interreligious ethics, philosophy and theology at the Faculty of Theology (University of Oslo).
- Bektovic, Safet (2018). Islamisk uddannelse og imamenes rolle i det norske samfund.
- Bektovic, Safet (2018). Moderne islam: tolkninger og diskurser.
- Bektovic, Safet (2018). Revelation, Scripture, and Hermeneutic Being Islamic and relating to the others.
- Bektovic, Safet (2018). The role of philosophical practice in the teaching of dialogue and conversation practice in a faith- and life stance plural society.
- Bektovic, Safet (2018). Theological debates about religiously motivated violence and terrorism.
- Bektovic, Safet (2018). Unge muslimer og islam.
- Bektovic, Safet (2018). Vold og terrorisme i islams navn.
- Bektovic, Safet (2018). With the dialogue against Exclusivism - Christian-Muslim Relations in Denmark.
- Eidberg, Mathias Henrik & Bektovic, Safet (2018). Om den hellige Ramadan.
- Bektovic, Safet (2017). Dannelse i et islamisk filosofisk perspektiv.
- Bektovic, Safet (2017). Ibn Arabi. Dialectics of Veiling and Unveiling God in Islam.
- Bektovic, Safet (2017). Muslimer i Skandinavien.
- Bektovic, Safet (2017). Signs of a hiden God in Islam.
- Bektovic, Safet (2016). Being Muslim refugie in Europe.
- Bektovic, Safet (2016, 01. mars). Ble bedre muslim av Kierkegaard-studier. Dagen.
- Bektovic, Safet (2016, 12. januar). Interview. [Radio].
- Bektovic, Safet (2016). Islamic Theology in Europe.
- Bektovic, Safet (2016). På flugt til Danmark.
- Bektovic, Safet (2016). Religion og heligskrifter i moderne demokratiske samfund.
- Bektovic, Safet (2016). Training of Imams in a non-Muslim enviromen.
- Bektovic, Safet (2010). Islamic theology at Scandinavian universities.