When I wrote this chapter in early 2025, I could not have imagined in which situation we would find ourselves roughly one year later: “The…
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…
My latest article is out in Die Welt des Islams – and it is open access! This is the abstract: This article explores the sudden,…
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, the following three book reviews by me have been published: Why are Christians and Baháʼís “yearning for distinction” & why do they want to…
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…
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).…
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…
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…
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…