Professor Emeritus, University of Cape Town

Abdulkader Tayob is a professor emeritus of Islam at the Department for the Study of Religions at the University of Cape Town. He has held numerous visiting positions in the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, Tunisia, Singapore, and Pakistan. Professor Tayob has taught and published on Islam in South Africa, the history of religions, and the discourses of contemporary Islam. He has published four books, numerous essays in prestigious journals, and book chapters in collaboration with colleagues in different parts of the world. His current projects focus on religious studies and Islamic intellectual history as well as religion and ethics in religious traditions. He is working on a book-length study of moral economies of contemporary African Muslim societies. In 2019 he received the Humboldt George Forster Award for Research and Teaching Excellence, and in 2024 he was recognized with the Hamilton Naki Award by the National Research Foundation in South Africa.