Ayang Utriza Yakin


Ayang Utriza Yakin is an Indonesian-born scholar of Islamic Studies based in Belgium.
He is a research associate at Université catholique de Louvain.
He graduated with a BA in Islamic law from the Faculty of Sharia and Law of the Syarif Hidayatullah State [Islamic University Jakarta] in Jakarta and studied Islamic law at the University of al-Azhar, Cairo. Yakin obtained an MA and PhD in History and Philology from the Ecole des hautes [etudes en sciences sociales|Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales], Paris. During the period of 2005-7 he also returned to Indonesia and was a lecturer at UIN Jakarta.
Yakin was a visiting fellow and postdoctoral researcher at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies at the University of Oxford, at the Islamic Legal Studies Program of Harvard Law School, the University of Harvard, at the Asia Leadership Fellow Program, Tokyo, Japan, and at the Chair of Law and Religion of the research institute of “Religions, Spiritualities, Cultures, Societies”, at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium and a visiting professor at Ghent University, and researcher at Sciences Po.
Since 2021, he is a research associate at the Chair of Law and Religion at the RSCS institute at UCLouvain), Belgium, and postdoctoral researcher at Sciences Po Bordeaux, France, working on the ANR-funded project ‘Equality and Law in Personal Status’.

Selected publications

Sejarah hukum Islam Nusantara abad XIV-XIX M Islam moderat dan isu-isu kontemporer : demokrasi, pluralisme, kebebasan beragama, non Muslim, poligami, dan jihad ''Rethinking Halal: Genealogy, Current Trends, and New Interpretations Hidup dalam Doa Islamic Divorce in the Twenty-First Century, A Global Perspective Islam Praksis; Keberislaman yang Aqli, Naqli, dan Tarikhi Bahkan Tuhan pun Tak Tega Jika Kita Menderita Shame, Modesty, and Honor in Islam
  • ''Histoire, société et études islamiques au 21e siècle''