Dr N.A. Boekhoff-van der Voort (Nicolet)

Chairman of the Examination - Islam, Politics and Society

Dr N.A. Boekhoff-van der Voort (Nicolet)
Visiting address

Erasmusplein 1
6525 HT NIJMEGEN

Postal address

Postbus 9103
6500 HD NIJMEGEN

Working days Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort is Assistant Professor of Islam and (Classical) Arabic at Radboud University Nijmegen. She successfully completed her PhD research “Between History and Legend: The Biography of the Prophet Muḥammad by Ibn Shihāb al-Zuhrī”, in which she studies the sīra material about the life of the Prophet Muḥammad by the famous Medinan scholar al-Zuhrī (d. 742 C.E.) Her current research deals with the analyses of aḥādīth about the Prophet Muḥammad, the earliest generations of Muslims and the initial period of the Islamic empire in Islamic sources from the earliest centuries of Islam.

She has published articles on “The Concept of sunna Based on the Analysis of sīra and Historical Works from the First Three Centuries of Islam”, in The Sunna and its Status in Islamic Law: The Search for a Sound Hadith, Duderija, A. (ed.), New York: Palgrave, 2015, 13-38, “The Umayyad Court and Sīra” and “Ahl al-kitāb”, in Muhammad in History, Thought, and Culture; An Encyclopedia of the Prophet of God, Fitzpatrick, Coeli & Walker, Adam (Eds.), Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2014, co-edited the volume Transmission and dynamics of the textual sources of Islam: Essays in Honour of Harald Motzki, eds. N. Boekhoff-van der Voort, C. Versteegh & J. Wagemakers Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2011, in which she also wrote the article “The Kitāb al-maghāzī of `Abd al-Razzāq b. Hammām al-San`ānī: Searching for earlier source-material”, 27-47.

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Erasmus building room E14.17
024-36 20065
Monday

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