KURODA, Ayaka

Associate Professor, Ritsumeikan Asia-Japan Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University Specialized fiel：Modern Islamic political thought, intellectual history in Egypt, Middle Eastern Studies
Ritsumeikan University Researcher Database rsearchmap
Degree：Ph.D. in Area Studies, (Kyoto University), 2017 Doctoral Thesis: Religion-State Relationships in Contemporary Egypt: The Emergence of Centrism in Islamic Political Thought
Publications: Moderate Islamic Thinkers Formulating the Future: In the Midst of Social and Political Transformation in Contemporary Egypt (Nakanishiya Publishing, 2019) Recent Papers : "Rethinking Discussions on "Islam" and "State" in Contemporary Egypt: The Community Based Approach in Tariq al-Bishri's Political and Legal Thought." Annals of Japan Association for Middle East Studies, vol. 34, no.2, pp.1-34, 2018.
Recent Research Interests: Islamic reform in the globalized Muslim world, Islamic thought in America
Researchers' Essays：The Joy of Reading Personal Histories from the Primary Sources: Encounters during My Research on Islamic Thinkers in Egypt.
E-Mail Address：