Head of the Department of Middle East nad North Africa, University of Łódź, Poland
Member of:
Polskie Towarzystwo Orientalistyczne (Polish Oriental Society; President), Polskie Towarzystwo Nauk Politycznych (Polish Society of Political Sciences), Union Europeenne des Arabisants et Islamisants, Towarzystwo Naukowe Warszawskie (Warsaw Society of Sciences), Komitet Nauk Orientalistycznych PAN (Committee for Oriental Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, vice-President).
Editor-in-chief of „Rocznik Orientalistyczny”
Interests: History of Islam; History of Arabic culture and literature; contemporary Islam in political context; Islam-West relations; ideologies of Islamic World; anthropology of IslamicWorld.
Selected books (in Polish):
Arabia Magica. Wiedza tajemna u Arabów przed islamem (Arabia Magica. The Recondite Wisdom among the Arabs in pre-Islamic Times), 1993.
Symbolika arabsko-muzułmańska (Arabo-Islamic Symbols), 1997.
Arabowie (The Arabs. A Lexikon, ed.), 2001.
Historia Iraku (The History of Iraq), 2002, 2nd ed. 2007.
Irak. Religia i polityka (Iraq. Religion and Politics), 2005.
Cywilizacja islamu w Azji i Afryce (Civilisation of Islam in Asia and Africa), 2007.
Dzieje kultury arabskiej (History of Arabic Culture), 2008.
Złote stolice Arabów. Szkice o współczesnej myśli arabskiej (Golden Capitals of the Arabs. On contemporary Arabic Thought), 2011.