Islam Dayeh

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Islam Dayeh is a scholar in Islamic and Arabic studies who works as a research professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures at Ghent University. He is the editor-in-chief of the journal Philological Encounters.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in Islamic Studies from the University of Jordan in 2002, a master’s in Islamic Studies from Leiden University in 2003, a Master of Studies in Jewish Studies from Oxford in 2009, and a PhD in Arabic Studies from the Free University of Berlin in 2012.

Dayeh has held visiting professorships and research fellowships at several institutions, including Columbia University, the University of Turin, the American University in Cairo, the Luxembourg School of Religion and Society, the Library of Congress, and research centers in Doha and São Paulo.

Before joining Ghent University in 2024, he was an assistant professor of Arabic Studies at the Free University of Berlin. He directed the Zukunftsphilologie program from 2010 to 2023 and led the project Arabic Philology and Textual Practices in the Early Modern Period (2015–2019). He also leads the European Research Council Consolidator Grant project Know: Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures, which studies how different knowledge areas interacted between about 1200 and 1800 CE.