Elmozfar (Kotoz) Ahmed is a postdoctoral researcher at Ghent University in the ERC-project KNOW: Polymathy and Interdisciplinarity in Premodern Islamic Epistemic Cultures.
He has an MA in Cultural Anthropology from Leipzig University (2019) and a PhD in Arabic Studies from KU Leuven (2024), working on the intellectual history of the interaction between Arab Nahda and European Orientalism.
His research interests include Arabic Sociocultural history, Arabic and Islamic intellectual and interdisciplinary history, and culinary and consumption histories in Arabic urban landscapes.
