Muslims, the Secular & Existential Risk
Such risks include pandemic diseases, the climate emergency, nuclear conflict, and threats from potentially malevolent developments in Artificial Intelligence.
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Science does not answer all questions we have as a species.
Science does not answer all questions we have as a species.
Science does not answer all questions we have as a species.
Science does not answer all questions we have as a species.

Prof. Tee is the author of The Gülen Movement in Turkey: The Politics of Islam and Modernity (London: IB Tauris, 2016), as well as multiple articles and chapters which address the relationship between Muslim groups and the secular state tradition in Turkey. She is lead editor of The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey (Oxford/NY: Oxford University Press, 2024), and co-edits the Edinburgh Studies in the Anthropology of Islam book series at Edinburgh University Press.

He also co-founded the Moroccan Centre for Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship (MCISE) before joining the University of Cambridge with a full Cambridge Trust scholarship. His work has been published in various journals such as: Religion, State and Society, Religions, the Journal of Islamic Studies and Contemporary Islam. His forthcoming monograph is soon to be published with Oxford University Press.

Dr. al-Dabbagh has also taught traditional Islamic texts across various disciplines, bringing a unique blend of academic rigor and traditional knowledge to the field. Passionate about bridging traditionally-inspired insights with contemporary discourses, Dr. al-Dabbagh continues to contribute to the scholarly community through research, teaching, and publications.


She has published a special issue on Muslim ontologies, transcendence and anthropology in HAU - Journal of Ethnographic Theory and two others on Islam in Russia in Ethnicities and Contemporary Islam. She is the convenor of the European Association of Social Anthropology’s network ‘Muslim Worlds’ and co-editor of the book ‘Peripheral Methodologies: Unlearning, Not-Knowing and Ethnographic Limits’ (Routledge, 2021).

Currently, Gregory is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Chester, following his roles as a research fellow at F.R.S.-FNRS and UCLouvain in Belgium, and as guest lecturer at SciencesPo Paris. His research primarily delves into the doctrines of speculative mysticism, Qur’anic hermeneutics, and spiritual education in Sufism.
Religious voices are largely absent from conversations around existential risk, despite the fact that the majority of the world’s population identify as religious and the reality that these risks, by their very nature, threaten us all.
The core hypothesis of the MUSER project is that by de-secularizing approaches to knowledge construction, and by taking seriously the Islamic concept of ilm (knowledge) with respect to risk, we will open new epistemological perspectives as well as potential responses to the existential challenges that all of humanity faces.
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