Dr. Besnik Sinani is the President of Konak Institute, Head of its Education Project, and lecturer of Islamic theology at Tübingen University in Germany. He received his doctoral degree in History and Islamic Studies from Freie Universität Berlin and has an MA in Near East Studies from New York University. He has taught at Freie Universität Berlin, King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and has been a research fellow at the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient Berlin and the American Center for Research in Amman, Jordan. In addition to his academic studies, Dr. Sinani has also attended traditional learning circles of the traditional scholars of the Hijaz. He was awarded the 2021 Dissertation Award by the German Congress of Middle Eastern Studies, and he is the author of the forthcoming monograph “Sufism in Saudi Arabia Since 1979: The Politics of Orthodoxy in Contemporary Islam”, to be published by Brill.