I was born and raised in Norway. My academic path didn’t begin where I eventually found my purpose. I first graduated in electronic engineering, thinking that was my future. That technical background rather became a useful backdrop for engaging with digital humanities and manuscript studies, where signal processing and the study of classical texts increasingly intersect.

My deeper interest in Islamic learning gradually led me to the Middle East. After a year in Egypt, I moved to Saudi Arabia, where I spent nine years at the Islamic University of Madinah. There, I immersed myself in classical Islamic scholarship, earning a Bachelor’s in Sharīʿah and a Master’s in Uṣūl al-Fiqh. Those years shaped how I see the world.

Later, I began pursuing a PhD in Islamic Legal Theory from Malaysia (which is submitted and awaits its viva/defense), and then a second PhD in Religious Studies from Norway, aiming to bridge scholarly traditions and explore how traditional Islamic thought and modern academic inquiry can speak to one another.

Along the way, I also studied Western philosophy and intellectual history, trying to understand how different civilizations have approached questions of truth, reason, and revelation.

Having experienced both traditional Islamic and Western university educations on PhD level, I’ve come to see the strengths of each. Traditional scholarship offers depth, coherence, and spiritual purpose, while modern academia brings analytical rigor and openness to critique. My work, including this website, is about bringing these worlds into conversation, exploring what happens when classical insights meet modern questions.

I’m especially passionate about Islamic law, and comparative Semitic philology looking at the fascinating links between Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, and other ancient languages. For me, these studies are not just academic; they are a way of understanding how ideas travel, transform, and connect across time and cultures.

This website is where I share reflections, questions, and discoveries from that ongoing journey, sometimes academic, sometimes personal, but always curious!