Rate My Professor Jesper Petersen

Petersen is Principal Investigator and research leader of the Non-Muslim Islams project (2024-2028), supported by a Sapere Aude grant from the Independent Research Fund Denmark. He co-edited the volume The Production and Consumption of Non-Muslim Islams (Edinburgh University Press, 2025) with Anders Ackfeldt, featuring 11 case studies on non-Muslim shaped Islams, and contributed the introductory chapter 'Introducing Non-Muslim Islam to Islamic Studies'. Other significant outputs include the co-authored report 'Afdækning af tvang ved indgåelse af religiøst ægteskab - med særligt fokus på muslimske praksisser' (2025), the evaluation report 'Evaluering af Til Døden Os Skiller' (2025), expert statement 'Sagkyndigudtalelse om katb al-kitab og nikah' (2025), and recent articles such as 'Infiltrationsnarrativen: Casestudie af Florence Bergeaud-Blacklers bog Broderismen' in Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies (2026) and a review of Re-inventing Islam in Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations (2026). He has also published opinion pieces in Berlingske Tidende ('Svar fra Jesper Petersen', 2026) and Jyllands-Posten ('Søstre mod Vold og Kontrol har fået min disputats galt i halsen', 2026). With 82 research outputs, Petersen's scholarship illuminates contemporary Islamic dynamics in Denmark and scholarly discourses on Islam.