Mykhaylo Mykhaylovych Yakubovych (
Ukrainian: Михайло Михайлович Якубович, born 1986) is a translator and scholar of Islamic Studies from Ukraine. He received his PhD from the National University of
Ostroh Academy where he worked as an Associate Professor and researcher in
Islamic Studies. He later moved to Uni Freiburg, Germany. He conducted his research on the Medieval Islam during his fellowships in
Poland (2008, 2009), Italy (2009, 2011),
Saudi Arabia (2010) and United States (
Princeton,
Institute for Advanced Study, 2014). He published few books, numerous articles and translations in various scientific journals in
Ukraine,
Poland, Russia,
Egypt,
Saudi Arabia,
Great Britain and
Turkey ("Religion, State and Society", "Journal of Ottoman Studies", "Yearbook of Muslims in Europe" etc.). He completed the first full translation of the
Qur’an into the
Ukrainian language, approved for publishing by the
King Fahd Glorious Qur’an Printing Complex (
Madinah,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) and released in 2013 (second edition: Kyiv, 2015). He is a member of the research projects on the reception of the Arabic culture in Poland (2013-2015, 2016-2018, Warsaw University).
Mykhaylo Yakubovych. Jan Latosz (1539–1608) and His Natural Philosophy: reception of Arabic science in early modern Poland, Cultures in Motion. Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Periods. Ed. by Adam Izdebski and Damian Jasiński, Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 2014.
Mykhaylo Yakubovych. Prophethood as a Historical Necessity: Between The Islamic Traditionalism and The Eastern Neoplatonism, Studia Antyczne i Mediewistyczne, No. 7 [42], 2009, P. 57-43.