Event in Berlin: Publics under Threat, June 23, 7pm
Despite the expansion of new communication technologies, we have entered a dark age of public debates: AI-generated fake news, filter bubbles, and controlled information endanger…
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New Publication: “The Simple Logic of Divine Sovereignty”
Perhaps no other neologism has been more influential within Islamic thought in the 20th century than hakimiyya, a term which denotes God’s absolute sovereignty. This…
New Publication: “The Islamist International in Lahore: The Jamaat-i Islami, the Middle East, and the Quest for an Islamic State”
I have a chapter in the just published Bérénice Guyot-Réchard and Elisabeth Leake (eds), South Asia Unbound New International Histories of the Subcontinent (Leiden: Leiden…
Online Symposium on “Shi’i Traditionalism in Modern South Asia” on Jan 26, 12pm EST
Please join us on Thursday January 26, 12-2 PM EST for an online symposium on Shiʿi Traditionalism in Modern South Asia, organized by Prof. Ali…
Workshop “On Leadership and Authority in the 20th Century ‘Muslim World'”
Together with Layli Uddin (Queen Mary University of London), I’ve organized a workshop to be held on December 8 and 9 at the Freiburg Institute…
New Review: Jeffrey A. Redding’s “A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India”
I’ve reviewed Jeffrey A. Redding’s provocative and fascinating A Secular Need: Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India (University of Washington Press, 2020) for…
New Publication: “Thoughtful Leaders in the Tolerance Alliance: 9/11 and the Quest for a ‘moderate Islam'”
Together with my colleague Alexander E. Balistreri, I have looked at the phenomenon of “moderate Islam” post 9/11 in a new article in Asiatische Studien…
What to read on Twelver Shi’ism in Pakistan?
I discuss the existing literature in a new contribution to Oxford Bibliographies. Check it out here: https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195390155/obo-9780195390155-0295.xml This bibliography will get updated regularly, so please…
New Special Issue on “Divine Sovereignty, Morality, and the State: Maududi and His Influence”
A special issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society on “Divine Sovereignty, Morality and the State: Maududi and His Influence,” edited by Humeira…
New Video: Rethinking the Middle East as an Utopian Space (in German)
The video recording our our discussion on December 8 in Zurich is now available on YouTube: Zionism, socialism, pan-Arabism, Islamic Republic: The Middle East and…