I started to reflect on why it should be that such an extremely limited range of Arabic-language terms appear to…
Is Baathism an Arabic word?
Iraq
The civic and the popular: Reflections on the Iraqi uprising
The recent uprising began in early October 2019 and grew into a spontaneous and leaderless protest movement that quickly spread…
The Islamic State’s intellectual genealogy (and what you need to read to understand it)
Graeme Wood’s “What ISIS Really Wants,” published in The Atlantic in February 2015, sparked a massive debate. The controversy concerns…
Islam and terrorism
In my previous post, I suggested that one of the latent assumptions underpinning the Chicago Report is that terrorism is…
Cheerleading for war?
One of the questions that plagues my study of American religion is why there is such a frequent close correspondence…