First Review of Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa (EUP, 2025) is in
The first review of Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa (Edinburgh University Press, 2025), co-edited by Thomas Pierret and me, is in. Jörg…
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New Publication: The “Discovery” of Modern Islam in East Germany after 1979: Iran, the Resurgence of Religion, and the Coming Crisis of Dependent Capitalism
My latest article is out in Die Welt des Islams – and it is open access! This is the abstract: This article explores the sudden,…
New edited volume: Utopianism in the Middle East and North Africa (Edinburgh University Press, 2025)
Thomas Pierret and I have published an edited volume that constitutes the first systematic exploration of the diversity of utopian thought and practice in the…
Recently Published Book Reviews (3 April 2025)
Recently, the following three book reviews by me have been published: Why are Christians and Baháʼís “yearning for distinction” & why do they want to…
New Publication: “Searching for Friends Across the Global South: Classified Documents, Iran, and the Export of the Revolution in 1983”
I have a new chapter in the recently published volume The Fate of Third Worldism in the Middle East. Palestine, Iran and Beyond, edited by…
Two recent contributions to “Forschung und Lehre” (in German)
I’ve contributed two articles to “Forschung und Lehre” (Research and University Teaching), the magazine of the Deutsche Hochschulverband (German Association of University Professors and Lecturers).…
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…
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…