Islamic theology · ethics · social change
Emin Poljarević
Associate Professor of Islamic Theology and Philosophy; Docent in Sociology of Religion. · Uppsala University
How do Islamic theological and ethical traditions shape struggles over dignity, political authority, belonging, and social transformation? My research brings textual interpretation into conversation with sociology of religion and political analysis.
Research themes
Muslim liberation theology
Islamic ethical resources for dignity, justice, trusteeship, resistance, and sustainable social transformation.
Political theology and citizenship
Authority, statehood, reform, citizenship, and the moral vocabularies through which Muslims negotiate modern political life.
Muslim movements and lived Islam
Salafism, Islamism, moral subjectivity, everyday religious practice, and interpretive approaches to Muslimness.
Islamophobia and civil society
The governance of religious difference, conditional belonging, Muslim civil society, and public institutions in Sweden and Northern Europe.
Forthcoming · Wiley Blackwell · October 2026
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Muslim Liberation Theologies
Edited by Emin Poljarević and Ivan Ejub Kostić
Across more than thirty original chapters, scholars from Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe examine how Islamic ethics, trusteeship, and resistance respond to injustice in diverse historical and contemporary settings.
Selected work
Civic Suspicion and Moral Sorting
Islamophobia, folkbildning, and the defunding of Muslim civil society in Sweden. Islamophobia Studies Journal, 2026.
Negotiating the State
Citizenship and political theology in the thought of Yūsuf al-Qaraḍāwī and Rāshid al-Ghannūshī. Political Theology, 2025.
Islam as Method
An Islamic framework for scholarly inquiry, ethical engagement, and intellectual orientation. Philosophy and Society, 2024.
Browse the complete publications catalogue, including books, peer-reviewed articles and chapters, reference works, reports, reviews, and selected public scholarship.
Research, teaching, and public engagement
I welcome research collaboration, doctoral enquiries, invited lectures, and interdisciplinary projects on Islamic thought, ethics, and public life.
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