Istvàn Kristo-Nagy
College: College of Social Sciences and International Studies
I was born in Budapest, Hungary. I studied History and Arabic at Pázmány Péter Catholic University (MA-s in 2000). My PhD in Arabic Studies is from Eötvös Lóránd University and the Université de Toulouse 2, Le Mirail (2006). A largely updated and revised version of his dissertation was published under the title of La Pensée d’Ibn al-Muqaffaʽ in 2013.
http://www.editions-de-paris.com/ouvrages/nouveautes/la-pensee-d-ibn-al-muqaffa-cp94645.html
My academic studies have been supplemented by the enriching opportunity to work as a cultural guide in more than twenty countries throughout Europe, the Middle East, South Asia and Latin America. I speak in Hungarian, English, Arabic, French, Italian, Spanish, and used to be able to read Latin.
During my undergraduate and MA studies I was awarded with scholarships at the Universitá degli Studi di Napoli “l’Orientale”, the Pontificio Instituto di Studi Arabi e Islamici, the Institut Catholique de Toulouse, the Institut du Monde Arabe and Princeton University. I also received scholarships in different Arab countries such as Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt.
After the completion of my doctoral studies, I received a Sultan Post Doctoral Fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley and a Mellon Career Development Fellowship in Classical Arabic at the University of Oxford. I taught as a visiting professor at the University of Richmond, Virginia, in the fall of 2009. I declined a Mellon Fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in order to come to Exeter where I spent three years as a research fellow in Professor Robert Gleave’s Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought (LIVIT) project between January 2010 and December 2013. The proceedings of the conferences organised in the framework of this project will be published in a series by Edinburgh University Press:
http://www.euppublishing.com/series/LIVIT
The title of the first volume, published in 2015, is Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qurʾān to the Mongols.
The title of the second volume, published in 2018, is Violence in Islamic Thought from the Mongols to European Imperialism.
While holding this fellowship I was also granted a Mellon Research Fellowship at the Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid in 2011.
My lectureship at the IAIS started in January 2013 and my senior lectureship in July 2018. I am a member of the Centre for the Study of Islam.
