Islam UK-Centre online Seminar

Mykhaylo Yakubovych (born 1986 in Ostroh, Ukraine) obtained his PhD in 2011 from The National University of Ostroh Academy with a study on interreligous relations in medieval Sunni traditionalism. Currently he is British Academy Fellow at Coventry University (Coventry, UK) and also a member of the research team on the ERC-funded project “GloQur – The Global Qur’an” (University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany), he studies Qur’an translations produced by international institutions and publishers, with a focus on Central Asian and Eastern European languages. He is the author of an annotated translation of the Qur’an into Ukrainian (first published in 2013), along with several books and translations from Arabic, and many research articles published in academic journals from the UK to Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Australia. He has conducted several academic projects on the Islamic manuscript heritage, including the post-classical intellectual history of the Crimean Khanate (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA) and 16th–17th century Qur’an interpretations produced by Lithuanian Tatars (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland).