معرفی
Salah Chafik serves as Senior Research Fellow at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), an institute within The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London. His work centers on redefining public value creation beyond Western paradigms through Islamic indigenous institutions.
His academic foundation includes a PhD from Tallinn University of Technology, prior studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University, and traditional Islamic education at West African seminaries.
Chafik's research explores Islamic Public Administration and Indigenous Institutions through an interdisciplinary lens combining organizational theory, economic sociology, and ethnographic fieldwork. He investigates how purpose-driven Islamic institutions deliver public services and shape socio-economic environments, challenging ethnocentric governance models with frameworks rooted in eudaimonia (السعادة القصوى).
His publication trajectory (2017-2025) reveals three dominant themes: zawāyā as public administration models, Islamic cooperatives in community development, and non-ethnocentric development frameworks. Recent works like Staying the course (2025) demonstrate how indigenous Islamic institutions preserve anticolonial governance traditions while addressing contemporary challenges.
Chafik leads the John Templeton Foundation-funded Islamic Public Value project (2022-2025) as Co-Investigator and Project Manager. This initiative examines public value creation through Islamic institutions, combining theoretical development with ethnographic research in Morocco and West Africa.
