Leif Stenberg is the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University

Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University

- History :The center for MIddle Eastern studies was founded in 2007 on behalf of a new effort to conduct and coordinate research on the Middle East within Lund University....

. Leif Stenberg received his B.A degree from Lund University

Lund University

Lund University , located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania, Sweden, is one of northern Europe's most prestigious universities and one of Scandinavia's largest institutions for education and research, frequently ranked among the world's top 100 universities...

 in 1987 and wrote his doctoral thesis on the Islamization of science, supervised by Jan Hjärpe

Jan Hjärpe

Jan Östen Hjärpe is a Swedish Islamicist and a professor emeritus in Islamic studies at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University....

, in 1996. Stenberg's work has been influenced by both Jan Hjärpe

Jan Hjärpe

Jan Östen Hjärpe is a Swedish Islamicist and a professor emeritus in Islamic studies at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University....

 and Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault , born Paul-Michel Foucault , was a French philosopher, social theorist and historian of ideas...

, which is apparent in his doctoral thesis, where Foucauldian concepts and definitions are used. His interests also include contemporary sufism, which he has been actively researching since the mid 1990s.

Media Appearances

Stenberg has both contributed and appeared in several national media-outlets in Sweden such as Dagens Nyheter

Dagens Nyheter

is a daily newspaper in Sweden. It has the largest circulation of Swedish morning newspapers, followed by Göteborgs-Posten and Svenska Dagbladet, and is the only morning newspaper that is distributed to subscribers across the whole country. In 2009 DN had a circulation of 316,000, reaching 881...

, Svenska Dagbladet

Svenska Dagbladet

Svenska Dagbladet is a daily newspaper in Sweden. The first issue appeared on 18 December 1884. Svenska Dagbladet is published in Stockholm and provides coverage of national and international news as well as local coverage of the Greater Stockholm region...

 and Swedish Radio channel P1. Leif Stenberg has been increasingly sought after for comments in wake of the Arab Spring

Arab Spring

The Arab Spring , otherwise known as the Arab Awakening, is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab world that began on Saturday, 18 December 2010...

, commenting on the Muslim Brotherhood

Muslim Brotherhood

The Society of the Muslim Brothers is the world's oldest and one of the largest Islamist parties, and is the largest political opposition organization in many Arab states. It was founded in 1928 in Egypt by the Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna and by the late 1940s had an...

 in Dagens Nyheter

Dagens Nyheter

is a daily newspaper in Sweden. It has the largest circulation of Swedish morning newspapers, followed by Göteborgs-Posten and Svenska Dagbladet, and is the only morning newspaper that is distributed to subscribers across the whole country. In 2009 DN had a circulation of 316,000, reaching 881...

. He also contributed during the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy

The Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy began after 12 editorial cartoons, most of which depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad, were published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on 30 September 2005...

. Stenberg has also appeared on live television commenting on the roots and developments of the Arab Spring

Arab Spring

The Arab Spring , otherwise known as the Arab Awakening, is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab world that began on Saturday, 18 December 2010...

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List of Publications

Stenberg has published numerous articles and books during his professional career, many of his publications can be found listed at the Lund University publication database

• Koch, C. & L. Stenberg (eds.) (2010) The EU and the GCC: Challenges and Prospects under the Swedish EU Presidency. Gulf Research Center, Dubai. ISBN 978-9948-490-01-2.
• Schaebler B. & L. Stenberg (eds.) (2010) Globalization and the Muslim World: Culture, Religion, and Modernity. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse. ISBN 0-8156-3024-7
• Stenberg, L. (1996), The Islamization of Science: Four Muslim Positions Developing an Islamic Modernity. Almqvist & Wiksell International, Stockholm. ISBN 91-22-01723-2.
• Stenberg, L. (1999) Muslimer i Sverige - Lära och Liv. Bilda förlag, Stockholm. ISBN 91-574-5542-2.
• Stenberg, L. (1996) ”Seyyed Hossein Nasr and Ziauddin Sardar on Islam and Science: Marginalization or modernization of a religious tradition”, i Social Epistemology. Vol. 10, nos. 3/4. ISSN 0269-1728
• Sternö A., L. Stenberg & B. Knutsson, (1988) Vetenskap och teknik i Arabvärlden. STU, Stockholm. ISBN 91-7850-253-5.
• Raudvere C. & L. Stenberg (eds.) (2009) Sufism Today. Heritage and Tradition in the Global Community. I.B. Tauris, London. ISBN 978-1-84511-762-7