Henri Lauzière, The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 2016.
Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?
Henri Lauzière
Henri Lauzière is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern University. He received his PhD from Georgetown University in 2008 and was a postdoctoral fellow in the study of the Middle East since the First World War at Princeton University. His research interests lie at the intersection of Islamic intellectual history and the modern political history of the Arab world, including North Africa. He is the author of The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century (Columbia University Press, 2016), and has published articles on modern Islamic thought in The International Journal of Middle East Studies and Die Welt des Islams.
