Jørgen Schøler Nielsen is a former Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Copenhagen. In October 2007, he assumed a five-year research chair (funded by the Danish National Research Foundation) within the Faculty of Theology, where he leads the Centre for European Islamic Thought.^[1] He holds degrees in Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and a PhD in Arab history from the American University of Beirut.^[2] He has concentrated his research on the situation of Muslims in Europe with related interests in the Islamic debate over religious pluralism and relations with the West.^[3] He has also worked as a consultant to the EU Presidency and the Council of Europe on religious minorities, and to the Danish, Swedish and British foreign ministries on Islam and Europe.

• Lecturer at the Centre for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Department of Theology, University of Birmingham from 1978 to 1988;^[3]
• Director of the Centre from 1988 to 2001.^[3]
• Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Birmingham in 1996. ^[3]
• Director of the Danish Institute in Damascus and Cultural Counsellor at the Danish Embassy from 2005 to 2007.^[3]

• Muslim Participation in Europe, Edinburgh University Press (2013) ISBN 0-7486-4694-9
• Muslims in Western Europe, Edinburgh University Press (2005) ISBN 0-7486-1844-9
• Towards a European Islam, Palgrave Macmillan (1999) ISBN 0-312-22143-6

He is also General Editor of the series Muslim Minorities^[4] and Chief Editor of the Yearbook of Muslims in Europe,^[5] both from Brill Publishers.