Assoc. Prof. SAMEDIN KADIĆ, PhD

Born in Sarajevo in 1982. He completed Gazi Husrev-beg Madrasa and graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, Department of Philosophy and Sociology. He obtained his master's degree at the same faculty on the topic “Aporias of Biopolicy”, and his PhD at the Faculty of Islamic Sciences in Sarajevo with the topic “Concepts of knowledge and belief in Ibn Ṭufayl's Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓānu: history of reception”. At present, he is the head of the Department of Islamic Philosophy at the Faculty of Islamic Sciences in Sarajevo. He was awarded the Hasan Kaimija Prize for his novel Paučina. He received a Fulbright Scholar Award for the 2017/2018 academic year, which he spent at the University of North Carolina in the USA, at the Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies (former Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations. He has authored three professional works (Aporije biopolitike, Politička geografija Hamida Dabashija, Mali leksikon velikih tema), a book of essays (Musa i Hidr) and three works of fiction (Penelopin vez: o medresi i čaršiji, Paučina, Radio Piton). He translated the book, The Meaning and End of Religion by Wilfired Cantwel Smith, from English into Bosnian.