Rüdiger Lohlker

Rüdiger Lohlker is a Professor of Islamic Studies at the Oriental Institute, University of Vienna (Austria) since 2003; Head of a training course for Imams, a training course for prison Imams and Imams in Hospitals, University of Vienna (Austria), 2010-2020; teaching at the universities of Göttingen, Kiel, and Gießen (all Germany), Xi’an (PR China), Yogyakarta (Indonesia) and others; worked as a database consultant in Rabat (Morocco).
Main research fields: Modern Islamic movements, Jihadism, history of Islamic thought, Islam and Arab world online, history of sciences

Selected recent publications:

• Rüdiger Lohlker/Margareta Wetchy: Colliding Epistemologies: Reflections on Nidhal Guessoum, posted March 12, 2021.
• Rüdiger Lohlker: Saudi Arabia in the Mirror of Saudi Cables, Berlin: Logos, 2020.
• Rüdiger Lohlker: Jihadism Reconsidered: The Industrial Revolution of Terrorism, in Syed Munir Khasru (ed.), The Digital Age, Cyber Space, and Social Media: The Challenges of Scurity & Radicalization, Dhaka: IPAG 2020, pp. 41-56*.