Dr. Joas Wagemakers

Joas Wagemakers is an Associate Professor of Islam and Arabic at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies and specializes in Salafism. He obtained his PhD in Nijmegen, received the Erasmus Research Prize in 2011 for his dissertation, was a researcher at Clingendael and a visiting research fellow at Princeton University.

How did ideological concepts in Islam develop historically?

Joas Wagemakers has been a member of the Utrecht Young Academy, a bridge between young and talented researchers, since 2017.