Ms Bianka Speidl

2023 –

Marie Skodowska Curie / UK Research and Innovation Postdoctoral Research Fellow on “Nature and Environmental Ethics in Contemporary Shiite Thought”, University of Exeter

Upcoming: "Emergence of a Shīʿī Islamic Environmental Paradigm: Legal and Ethical Considerations" in Journal of Islamic Ethics, Brill,  2025

Monograph: Islam as Power – Shii Revivalism in the Oeuvre of Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah, Routledge, London, New York, 2020.

Book Chapters (selected)

Speidl, B. (2023) “Exegesis that connects: Matta el-Meskeen in Conversation with Muslim Intellectuals”. in The Living Stones Yearbook 2023. Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust 2023, Melisende UK Ltd. 332-349.

Horvath-Sántha, H., Speidl, B., (2020) “Resilience as advocacy in European Islam” in Resilience Approach in Public Policies. S. Villani, D. Crocco, B. Speidl (eds.), Jovene, Naples, pp. 195-205. (ISBN978-88-243-2642-1)

Speidl, B. (2017) “The Rhetoric of Power in Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah's al-Islam wa mantiq al-quwwa.” In: Heydar Shadi (ed.) Islamic Peace Ethics. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2017. pp. 205-225. (Studien zur Friedensethik / Studies on Peace Ethics; 57.) (ISBN:978-3-8487-4050-5)

Other Publications (selected)

Belhaj, A., Speidl, B., (2018) “Islamic Ecumenism Redefined: A Hungarian Muslim Leader’s Reformed sharia for Everyday Muslims and Europe.” In: Barna, Gábor(ed.) Religion, Culture, Society: Yearbook of the MTA-SZTE Reserarch Group for the Study of Religious Culture 4 (2018) pp. 26-42.

Belhaj, A., Speidl, B., (2017) "The Good, the Junk and the Profitable: The New Halal Food in Budapest and London" Barna Gábor (ed.), Yearbook of the MTA-SZTE Research Group for the Study of Religious Culture 4, 2017, pp. 167-185.

Belhaj, A., Speidl, B., (2016) “Legitimacy and Exchange: The Moral Economy of Authority among Hungarian Muslims”. In Barna Gábor (ed.) Religion, Culture, Society: Yearbook of the MTA-SZTE Research Group for the Study of Religious Culture 3. pp. 96-115.

Belhaj, A., Speidl, B., (2015) “The Sacred Body and the Fascination of Ortohopraxy: The Religious Corpus of Hungarian Muslim Women.” In Barna Gábor (ed.) Religion, Culture, Society: Yearbook of the MTA-SZTE Research Group for the Study of Religious Culture 2. pp. 134-153.

Belhaj, A., Speidl, B., (2014) “Marriage as Appropriation: Evidence from the Hungarian Muslim community”. In Barna Gábor (ed.) Religion, Culture, Society: Yearbook of the MTA-SZTE Research Group for the Study of Religious Culture 1. pp. 129-155.