Biographie

Ayang Utriza Yakin is Postdoctoral Researcher at Sciences-Po Bordeaux, France, working on the ANR-funded project ‘Equality and Law in Personal Status’ (ELIPS), 2021-2024, Visiting Professor in Islamic Studies at KU Leuven, and Research Associate at the Chair of Law and Religion of the Research Institute ‘Religions, Spiritualities, Cultures, Societies’ (RSCS) at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium. He studied Arabic and classical Islamic studies, Islamic law, history, and philology in Indonesia (1990-2001), Egypt (2001-2002), and France (2003-5 & 2008-13). He was a visiting fellow and postdoctoral researcher in Oxford (2012), Harvard (2013), Tokyo (2016), and UCLouvain (2016-2019), and visiting professor in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Department of Languages and Cultures, Section Middle-East, Ghent University (2019-2021). He has published two books in Indonesian (both published in Jakarta in 2016 by Kencana PrenadaMedia), and numerous articles and book-chapters in Indonesian, French, Arabic, and English. His recent publication includes Rethinking Halal: Genealogy, Current Trends, and New Interpretation (Brill, 2021).