Studying Salafism is important not just for analyzing jihadist movements or clarifying twentieth-century Muslim history, but also for better understanding…
Salafism in Nigeria: An introduction
Islam
Tainted love
Noah Salomon begins his work with the provocative statement that the “state may have failed according to the criteria of…
The rhetoric of Islamic politics in local and global dimensions
Noah Salomon’s ethnography of politics provides a penetrating insight on the far-reaching effects of the Islamic state project in the…
When is the Islamic state? Historical time and the agenda of Islamic studies
From the Islamic revolutions in Iran (1978-79) and Sudan (1989) to the recent emergence of ISIS, the concept of an…
“I am not a racist, but . . .”: The perversity of the recent ECJ ruling on the “headscarf issue”
It is by now commonplace that ostensibly “neutral” language—such as the notorious preamble “I am not a racist, but .…
New itineraries in the study of Islam and the state
From Wael Hallaq’s The Impossible State to Shahab Ahmad’s What is Islam?, recent scholarship on Islam and the state has…
Politicizing Islam: An introduction
Politicizing Islam is a comparative ethnography that analyzes the religious and political dynamics of the Islamic revival in France and…
Religion and the new populism
The push for stronger cultural identities and political borders in the new populism is inseparable from the general concern about…
The refugee crisis and religion: Beyond physical and conceptual boundaries
According to the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), as of the end of 2015, 65.3 million people were displaced globally…
Muslim Cool: An introduction
The book focuses on interminority relationships to articulate a narrative of race and racism in the United States that transcends…