Abdessamad Belhaj

Abdessamad Belhaj is a senior researcher in Islamic Studies at the Institute of Religion and Society (UNPS-Budapest). He holds a PhD in Islamic Studies from Mohammed V University (Rabat, 2001) and a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, 2008). He worked as a researcher and visiting lecturer at UCLouvain between 2012 and 2024. His latest book, published in 2023, is entitled Authority in Contemporary Islam: Structures, Figures and Functions (ISBN 9789634549604 ).