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.

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 (Islamic Law) and a Master’s in Uṣūl al-Fiqh (Islamic Legal Theory). Then I pursued a PhD in Uṣūl al-Fiqh (Islamic Legal Theory) from Malaysia.

Today, I am busy in Norway working as a Doctoral Research Fellow in Religious Studies, pursuing my second PhD, with a focus on orientalism, Qurʾān translation and tafsīr, aiming to bridge scholarly traditions.

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, orientalism, and comparative Semitic philology looking at the fascinating links between Arabic, Aramaic, Hebrew, Phoenician, and other Semitic 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 disseminate reflections, questions, and discoveries from that ongoing journey, sometimes academic, sometimes personal, but always curious!