Jan Hjärpe#
| Membership Number: | 1090 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY & RELIGIOUS STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1991 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWEDEN |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/lucat/user/5b7433faa50119c24c56ba26f5d3cdad |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 professor emeritus in Islamic studies at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies at Lund University
- 1984 Professor of Islamology, University of Lund
- 1983 - 1984 Councellor at the Foreign Ministry
- 1982 - 1984 Research officer in Islamology
- 1976 - 1982 Assistant professor (History and Psychology of Religion, University of Lund
- 1972 - 1976 Lecturer in Uppsala and Umeå
- 1972 PhD Uppsala University (History of Religions)
- 1967 - 1968 Studies in Strasbourg
- 1967 Bachelor of Arts (History of Religions, Semitical languages)
- 1965 Bachelor of Theology.
Fields of Scholarship
- Political Islam
- Connections between religious and political language changes in the function of religion
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities (and member of its executive board)
- 1991 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2002 The Rausing research reward of Lund University
- 2004 The Lars Salvius Prize
- 2006 The Swedish King’s Medal
