Carool Kersten

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Full Name	Carool Kersten
Date Of Birth	Jun 28, 1964(1964-06-28)
Age	60
Birthplace	Haelen
Country	Netherlands
Birth City	Limburg
Horoscope	Cancer

Carool Kersten Biography

Carool Kersten is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on June 28, 1964 in Haelen, Limburg, Netherlands.

Carool Kersten studied Arabic Language and Culture at the then still existing Institute for the Study of the Languages and Cultures of the Middle East at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. He specialized in modern Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, with minors in International Law, International Relations and Indonesian. In 1987, he earned the academic title of doctorandus (equivalent of an MA) in Arabic and Islamic Studies with distinction, on the basis of a dissertation on the theory and practice of the Islamic law of treaties. After graduation he went to Egypt, where he attended the International Language Institute in Cairo. In 1988, he was admitted as a Sworn Translator by the Netherlands District Court in Arnhem. He returned to Nijmegen during a sabbatical (1995-1996) to do graduate work in philosophy. Taking another sabbatical year in 2001, he studied at Payap University in Chiang Mai, Thailand, where he obtained a Certificate in Thai and Southeast Asian Studies. In 2005, he moved to England in order to conduct postgraduate research at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and was awarded a PhD in the Study of Religions in 2009. In his thesis, written under the supervision of Professor Christopher Shackle and entitled ‘Occupants of the Third Space: New Muslim Intellectuals and the Study of Islam’, he dealt with the work of three contemporary Muslim scholars, (Nurcholish Madjid, Hasan Hanafi, Mohammed Arkoun). It has since been published as Cosmopolitans and Heretics by Hurst and Oxford University Press

Except for a sabbatical year (1995–96), from 1988 until 2000, Carool Kersten worked for the Dutch construction and engineering company Ballast Nedam Group. In 1989 he was transferred to Saudi Arabia to provide support for the company’s operations in the Middle East, where he held a number of staff and project positions, including that of personnel and general services manager for the company’s Middle East operations (1996–2000). From 2002 until 2007, he taught Asian history and religions at the Center for International and Graduate Studies (now known as the Institute of South East Asian Studies, SEAIGS) of Payap University in Chiang Mai, Thailand. In 2007, he joined King’s College London as Lecturer in the Study of Islam & the Muslim World, becoming a Senior Lecturer in 2012, and Reader in 2017. Since 2014, he has also been a Research Associate at the Institute for Philosophical Studies in Koper (Slovenia)

Carool Kersten Net Worth

Carool Kersten is one of the richest Historian from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Carool Kersten 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Carool Kersten (Haelen, 28 June 1964) is Dutch historian of Islam and the author and editor of eleven books. Trained as an Arabist, Southeast Asianist and scholar of religion, he currently works as a Reader in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World at King’s College London, teaching in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, as well as at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, where he was also acting head of department in 2017. In his research he focuses on the contemporary Muslim world, in particular intellectual history and current developments in both regional and global contexts. In addition to that, he is interested in Southeast Asian history and Islam, and in developments in the Middle East.

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