Dr phil. Youssef Dennaoui

Associated researcher

E-mail: youssef.dennaoui@uni-erfurt.de

Youssef Dennaoui heads the research project "Religious interpretative power conflicts and outbidding struggles in the global field of Salafism: A discourse-analytical study of Salafist beliefs between Germany and Morocco", funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) 2020-2024.

Research focus:

  • Sociology of religion
  • Sociology of Islam
  • Islam in Germany and Europe
  • Religious radicalisation in Islam: Islamism, Salafism
  • Modernisation and secularisation research
  • Sociology of globalisation
  • Qualitative methods of social research

About the person

Curriculum Vitae

Appointments

since 10/2020 Head of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) research project "Religious struggles of outbidding and conflicts of interpretive power in the global field of Salafism: A comparative study of Salafist beliefs between Germany and Morocco", funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) for a period of four years: 1 October 2020 to 31 December 2024
since 10/2017 Scientific employee for sociology of religion and Islam as part of the Bachelor's programme "Social Sciences" and the Master's programme "Theology and Global Development" at the Institute of Theology at RWTH Aachen University
since 2010 Teaching assignments as part of the Master's programme "Societies, Globalisation and Development" at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology at the University of Bonn (IPWS)
2010-2016 Scientific coordinator at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study in the Humanities "Law as Culture" - International Centre for Research in the Humanities at the University of Bonn
2009-2010 Scientific employee at the coordination office of the network "Integration through Qualification" in Düsseldorf on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs (BMAS)
2006-2008 Participation in working groups of the Center for the Classical Tradition (CCT) and the Centre for Religion and Society (ZERG) as well as the Cluster of Excellence initiative "Science and norms in knowledge-based societies" at the University of Bonn
2005-2009 research assistant and lecturer at the Institute for Political Science and Sociology at the University of Bonn (IPWS)
2000-2004 extramural work experience in Aachen and Cologne

University education

2010 Doctorate (Dr phil.) at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn with a thesis on "Sinn und Macht in der globalen Moderne. Diversity of modernity and the (im)possibility of cultural comparison"
1993-2000 Studies of Philosophy, Sociology and Psychology at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Degree: Magister Artium M.A.)
1987-1991 Studies of Philosophy (focus: classical Islamic philosophy), Sociology (focus: Islamic societies) and Psychology at the University Mohammed V. in Rabat/Morocco (Degree: Licence en Lettres)

Publications

Publications