Omar El-Rakhawy

Omar El-Rakhawy is an AUC graduate of philosophy and has a Leiden Master degree in religious studies. In his Master’s thesis, which was titled “Religion and its Counter-Tendencies: A Reflection on the Question of Religion”, he discuss different approaches to the question of religion, especially criticizing objective approaches, and particularly when these are suppressive to subjective considerations. In doing this, he relied on a comparative approach between figures and thinkers of different backgrounds, among them Kierkegaard, Derrida, and two Sufi figures who were equally singular in their own contexts, namely Ibn ‘Arabi and al-Niffari. At CILAS Alex, he will serve as Teaching Fellow in the Humanities and Arts.