Mgr. Pavel Ťupek, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, specializing in Arabic and Islamic Studies. He completed study stays and research fellowships at the Institut Bourguiba des langues vivantes (Tunis), King Saud University (Riyadh), and al-Mustafa International University (Qom). He is a member of the research project CoRe – Beyond Security: The Role of Conflict in Strengthening Resilience. His long-term research focuses on the analysis of Salafism and Salafi jihadism, and he serves as an expert on Islamic radicalism and extremism for state authorities.

Contact information: pavel.tupek@ff.cuni.cz

Areas of specialization:

• Ibn Taymiyya, Hanbalism, and their reception in modern Islamic thought
• Salafism as an ideological construct
• the theological concept of tawḥīd and its ideological instrumentalization
• religious discourse and the construction of authority in Islam (classical and contemporary)
• jihadist propaganda in cyberspace
• analysis and interpretation of Arabic religious–ideological audiovisual sources
• classical Arabic narrative prose of the 10th century as a source for moral and religious discourse (al-Tanūkhī)

Selected bibliography: 

Ťupek, P., & Beránek, O. (2025). Monotheism of the Divine Names and Attributes as a Defining Criterion of Salafism. Die Welt des Islams, 66(1), 81–109.

Beránek, O., & Ťupek, P. (2018). The Temptation of Graves: Destruction and Iconoclasm in Salafi Islam. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Ťupek, P. (2015). Salafitský islám. Praha: Academia.

Ťupek, P. (2013). Ibn Tajmíja: Wásitské vyznání (úvodní studie, překlad a komentář). Praha: Academia.

Beránek, O., Ostřanský, B., & Ťupek, P. (eds.) (2020). Islámská čítanka. Praha: FF UK.