"It has long been known that Muslims constitute the proverbial public enemy number one for right-wing populists across the Western…
A State of suspicion: Counter-radicalization in Norway
Salafism
The inevitable Islamic State? The paradoxes of Sudanese politics and society
Noah Salomon’s recent book, For Love of the Prophet, is a lesson in academic creativity in the face of adversity.…
Salafism in Nigeria: An introduction
Studying Salafism is important not just for analyzing jihadist movements or clarifying twentieth-century Muslim history, but also for better understanding…
The new global politics of religion: A view from the other side
In the summer of 2013, the international Islamic magazine al-Bayan published its Ramadan issue with a striking cover. Flanked by…
A View from the Margins of the Banlieue
What light does the experience of Salafi Muslim women shed on satire mocking Islam and Muslims? New Directions in the…
The ISIS shock doctrine
The rapid and shockingly violent establishment of a self-declared Islamic Caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq by The Islamic…
Tunisian Jews and the Arab Spring
In a recent article, Lin Noueihed and Terek Amara discuss the racism and fear of harassment Tunisian Jews have experienced…
Political and religious groups clash in Bonn
Last Saturday, a regional political rally in the German city of Bonn turned violent as Salafists, followers of a conservative…
The paradoxes of the re-Islamization of Muslim societies
The 9/11 debate was centered on a single issue: Islam. Osama Bin Laden was taken at his own words by…
“The embourgeoisement of the Islamists”: Olivier Roy on the uprisings
Olivier Roy, writing in the New Statesman, argues that the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa show how…