Mykhaylo Yakubovych

Mykhaylo Mykhaylovych Yakubovych is a translator and scholar of Islamic Studies from Ukraine, specializing in Qur’anic Studies, Medieval and Contemporary Islamic Thought, and the History of Islam in Ukraine.

Early life and education

He received his PhD from the National University of Ostroh Academy where he worked as an Associate Professor and researcher in Islamic Studies. Honorary research fellow at Coventry University. In 2020, moved to the University of Freiburg, Germany.

He conducted his research on the Medieval Islam during his fellowships in Poland, Italy, Saudi Arabia and United States. He published few books, numerous articles and translations in various scientific journals in Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, and Turkey. He completed the first full translation of the Qur’an into the Ukrainian language, approved for publishing by the King Fahd Glorious Qur’an Printing Complex and released in 2013 with a second edition in 2015 from Kyiv. He is a member of the research projects on the reception of the Arabic culture in Poland from 2013 to 2015 and 2016 to 2018 at Warsaw University.

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Mykhaylo Yakubovych. Jan Latosz and His Natural Philosophy: reception of Arabic science in early modern Poland, Cultures in Motion. Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. Ed. by Adam Izdebski and Damian Jasiński, Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2014.
Mykhaylo Yakubovych. Islam and Muslims in Contemporary Ukraine: Common Backgrounds, Different Images, Religion, State and Society, 2010, No. 3.
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Mykhaylo Yakubovych. Prophethood as a Historical Necessity: Between The Islamic Traditionalism and The Eastern Neoplatonism, Studia Antyczne i Mediewistyczne, No. 7, 2009, P. 57-43.
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