Arjan Post

Arjan Post is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven, specializing in Islamic studies with a focus on the intersection of Sufism, Islamic theology, and jurisprudence. He leads the Leuven Centre for the Study of Islamic Culture and Society and is actively involved in several interdisciplinary research groups.

• Key Research Areas: Sufism, Hanbalism, Ibn Taymiyya, Islamic ethics, and ʿilm al-kalam.
• Projects: Explores pre-modern tensions between Islamic legal literalism and mystical interpretation, including the juridical epistemology of Aḥmad Zarrūq and the evolution of Hanbali thought into Wahhabism.
• Publications: Recent works examine Sufi states and stations, the ethics of spiritual perfection, and biographical entries in Islamic encyclopedias.

His teaching includes courses on Modern Standard Arabic, Introduction to Islam, and Islamic Law. Post is also a member of the LECTIO institute and contributes to criminological and linguistic research networks.