FRIPRO funds to Mina Monier
Published: 9. April 2025
Senior Researcher Mina Monier receives funds from the Research Council of Norway in the category of Researcher Project for Early Career. The funds are awarded to the project "Unconventional Gospels (UnGos): A Computer–Assisted Analysis of Complex Harmonic Traditions in Newly Discovered Manuscripts." The project is one of 23 projects that receive a total of 216 million NOK for groundbreaking research.
The Role of Orientalism in the History of the Qurʿān
Published: 9. April 2025
Do you know how the first English translation of the Qurʿān directly from Arabic came to be? It’s a fascinating result of a race between the Protestant and Catholic churches. Zeshan Ullah Qureshi explores how sharp polemics, impressive philology, and Christian rivalry have shaped both Europe’s encounter with the Qurʿān and European thought itself.
MF Excavates the World's Oldest Monasteries
Published: 16. December 2024
MF Professor Victor Ghica leads the prestigious DEChriM project. Through groundbreaking archaeological discoveries in the desert, researchers are delving deep into the Christianization of Egypt.
Ways of belonging
Published: 6. October 2023
Explore how social belonging provides security and joy. Research from MF shows that belonging varies with individual needs and values.
Book launch and talk: Vulnerability, trauma and political theology
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Positive Reception for Book on Islamic Economics
Published: 16. August 2023
The book 'The Making of Islamic Economic Thought' by Sami al-Daghistani has received positive reception. It explores Islamic economic philosophy and ethics, and has been nominated for a prestigious award.
Kari Halstensen's Public Defence
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Research to gain knowledge about the situation of Roma LGBTQI people
Published: 8. December 2022
Associate professor at MF, Solvor M. Lauritzen, will together with Arman Heljic at Södertörn University, lead a research project on antigypsyist homophobia and the rights of Roma and Traveller LGBTQI people in the Nordic countries.
ERC Starting Grant to Moumita Sen
Published: 21. November 2022
Associate Professor Moumita Sen received a starting grant for her project POLDEI.
- The slavery is part of a national amnesia
Published: 14. November 2022
This fall Maria Dumitru started her Ph.D. at MF. As an academic specialised in gender studies, herself a Roma from Romania, she will contribute with unique perspectives to the RCN-funded research project MEMOROBIA.