Sami Al-Daghistani - The Making of Islamic Economic Thought

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Sami Al-Daghistani 2021

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I have been fortunate to be surrounded by scholars in Islamic Studies from whose scholarship I have benefited, immensely. They have helped me form and nuance my arguments, enthusiastically reading chapters of my thesis and offering key insights. I would like to thank my advisor at Leiden University, Maurits Berger, who persistently and diligently supervised every step of my PhD studies, and whose bi-weekly meetings, in order to discuss the thesis and its progress, contributed to its end product. At Leiden University, I am also grateful to professors, colleagues, and staff members, including the Leiden Center for the Study of Religion, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University Center for the Study of Islam and Society, and Netherlands Interuniversity School for Islamic Studies, as well as to Leiden University Funds.

I would like to credit my co-advisor at WWU Mnster, Marco Schller, for his supervision, advice, and encouragement and Dr. Monika Springberg-Hinsen for her prompt assistance and support at the Institut fr Arabistik und Islamwissenschaft. Likewise, I would like to sincerely thank Taner Yksel and Murat ahinarslan from DITIB Trkisch-Islamische Union der Anstalt fr Religion e.V. in Cologne for their generous academic and financial support.

My utmost gratitude and appreciation for his time, knowledge, and mentorship goes to my advisor at Columbia University, Wael Hallaq, who not only read, commented, and discussed in detail Chapters 3, 4, and 5 of this book but who also helped shape my understanding of the nuances within Islamic intellectual and legal history. Professor Hallaqs seminars and workshops on Islamic intellectual history, and numerous discussions with him in and outside of his office hours, remain some of my most cherished academic moments of my PhD research. At the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, (MESAAS) I am grateful to Timothy Mitchell for reading and providing comments for invaluable commentaries and suggestions. Likewise, I would like to express my sincere thanks to Katherine Pratt Ewing, the former director, and to Walid Hammam, the associate director of the Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life (IRCPL) at Columbia University, for providing me with an academic platform, workspace, and wonderful colleagues; to Gil Anidjar at the Religion Department for his backing; as well as to Marnia Lazreg at Hunter College in New York for her insightful analysis and discussion. The time spent first as a visiting scholar at MESAAS and at the IRCPL between 2015 and 2017, and then as a research scholar at IRCPL between 2017 and 2019, deepened my critical orientation and provided me with numerous academic incentives, projects, and collaborations that stretched well beyond my PhD studies.

At McGill University, where I spent the winter term of 2014, I would like to extend thanks to Ahmad Ibrahim, whose courses on Islamic law prompted me to carry on ongoing research and teaching activities in this domain, as well to Adina Sigartau for her invaluable help at the institute and the fellow students I met during my studies in Montreal.

At Amsterdam University, I am indebted to Michael Kemper for his time and the commentary he provided for one of the very first drafts of the thesis.

At Oxford University, I would like to extend my gratitude to Paul Flather for supporting my presentations at the Sorbonne, Oxford University, and in Madrid, within the framework of the Europaeum.