Torsten Hylén

Torsten Hylén got his Th.D. in the history of religions from Uppsala University in 2007. He has been working at Dalarna University since 1996, and is presently associate professor in religious studies.

His research mainly concerns the early history of Islam with an emphasis on the formative period of Shi`ism, but he has also written about theoretical issues within the history of religions and the didactics of religion.

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• Apocalyptic ideas in contemporary Islamic extremism
  01-12-2017
• 'Conversion' and 'Religion': Two Troublesome Concepts in the Study of Islam in Africa
  02-05-2013
• Devotion to Husayn in early Shi'ism
  01-01-2017

• Hylén, Torsten. Emerging Patterns of Authority in Early Shiʿism : Mukhtar’s Use of the Aesthetics of Persuasion, Shii Studies Review, 2019, Vol. 3. Article : refereed.
• Hylén, Torsten. Mukhtār and the Mahdī : a critical inquiry into the sources, DIN - Tidsskrift for religion og kultur, 2018, No. 1, 138-157. Article : refereed.
• Hylén, Torsten. Myth, ritual, and the early development of Shiite identity, Intellectual History of the Islamicate World, 2018, Vol. 6, No. 3. Article : refereed.
• Frisk, Liselotte, Axelson, Tomas, Hylén, Torsten, Stier, Jonas. Att lägga rälsen medan man kör : En utvärdering av kunskapshusens arbete i fyra pilotkommuner - Örebro, Göteborg, Borlänge och Stockholm, Interkulturellt utvecklingscentrum Dalarna (IKUD), 2017. Report.
• Hylén, Torsten. The Date of the Story of the Tawwābūn, Studia Islamica, 2017, Vol. 112, No. 2, 175-205. Article : refereed.