الدكتور الكسندر كايرو

مدير البرنامج وأستاذ مشارك في الدراسات الإسلامية

البريد الإلكتروني

acaeiro@hbku.edu.qa

الهاتف

974 4454 0337

موقع المكتب

C.01.026

الدكتور الكسندر كايرو

مدير البرنامج وأستاذ مشارك في الدراسات الإسلامية

المؤهلات العلمية

PhD (Religious Studies)

MA (Diplôme d’Études Approfondies) in Sociology

الكيان

كلية الدراسات الإسلامية

برنامج

ماجستير الآداب في الدراسات الإسلامية المعاصرة

القسم

الدراسات الإسلامية

السيرة الذاتية

Dr. Alexandre Caeiro is an Associate Professor at CIS. He was trained in sociology and in Islamic studies in France, the Netherlands, and Egypt. His research deals broadly with the transformations of Islamic law in modern contexts. He is currently working on the legal history of Gulf sheikhdoms, focusing on the interaction between emirs, shari’a judges, merchants, and British agents in the context of the development of an oil economy and modern state institutions.

 

PhD (Religious Studies)

Utrecht University (cum laude).

2011

MA (Diplôme d’Études Approfondies) in Sociology

Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), Paris (mention très bien).

2002

BA in Economics and Sociology (Two Subject Moderatorship)

Trinity College Dublin (with honors).

2001

  • Modern history of Islamic law
  • Law and society in the Gulf
  • Religious authority and media technology
  • Muslim minorities in the West
  • Islamic lamily Law

Program Director of MA and Graduate Certificate of Islamic Studies

College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

2023 – Present

Associate Professor of Islamic Studies

College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

2019 - Present

Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies

College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

2012 - 2019

Research Fellow

Erlangen Centre for Islam & Law in Europe (EZIRE), Friedrich–Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen–Nürnberg, Germany

2009 - 2012

Junior Research Fellow (PhD)

International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM), University of Leiden

2004 - 2008

Junior Research Fellow

Le Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris

2003 - 2004

Caeiro, A. (2025). The appeal of religious law: Jurisdictional politics and modern state formation in the Gulf sheikhdoms, ca. 1950–2000. Law and History Review, 1–25. 

Caeiro, A. (2024). The legal politics of Islamic bioethics: Drunk driving and the reconfiguration of privacy in the modern Gulf. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 1–19. 

Caeiro, A. (2024). Islamic law, oil wealth, and the modern state in the Gulf: The scope of the sharia in twentieth-century Qatar. Die Welt des Islams, 65(2–3). 214–249. 

Caeiro, A. (2022). The Islamic law of pearling: Ritual obligation and economic practice in the Arabian Gulf, ca. 1910–1940. Islamic Law and Society, 29(4). 457–494. 

Caeiro, A. (2019). Secular governance and Islamic law: The globalization of the minority question. Sociology of Islam, 7(4): 323–343. 

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