Leif Stenberg

Who is Leif Stenberg?

Leif Stenberg is the director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University. Leif Stenberg received his B.A degree from Lund University in 1987 and wrote his doctoral thesis on the Islamization of science, supervised by Jan Hjärpe, in 1996. Stenberg's work has been influenced by both Jan Hjärpe and Michel Foucault, 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.