About
Evstatiev is Professor of Near Eastern History and Islamic Studies at Sofa University St. Kliment Ohridski and Senior Researcher at the PREVEX Team of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia. He holds a PhD in Near Eastern and Islamic Studies from Sofia University where he is currently Head of the Department of Arabic and Semitic Studies, Chair of the Graduate Program in Near Eastern and Islamic Studies, as well as Director of the University Center for the Study of Religion.
Recently, Evstatiev was a Visiting Professor at the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies at the History Department of Princeton University (2013–2014). As Gerda Henkel Fellow (2016–2019), he is a 2016–2017 Research Associate to the Leibnitz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin.
Selected publications
- Evstatiev, S. (2021). ‘Salafism as a Contested Concept’. In A. J. Fromhertz & N. Samin (eds.) Knowledge, Authority and Change in Islamic Societies: Studies in Honor of Dale F. Eickelman. Leiden: Brill. pp. 162–191
- Evstatiev, S. (2019). ‘Milletic Secularism in the Balkans: Christianity, Islam, and Identity in Bulgaria.’ Nationalities Papers 41(1): 87-103.
- Evstatiev, S. (2018). ‘Salafism in the Middle East and the Boundaries of Faith’. Sofia: Iztok-Zapad Publishing House. 644pp.
- Evstatiev, S. and Makariev P. (2015). ‘Christianity, Islam, and Human Rights in Bulgaria.’ In G. Ziebertz & G. Črpić (eds.) Religion and Human Rights: An International Perspective. Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 1-17.