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The article is an attempt to both historicize and open up onto the ethnographic fieldwork I did in Jeddah and Mecca from 2017 to 2019. My fieldwork examines how, in the aftermath of oil, the Saudi state is attempting to remake Mecca into a laboratory for new sciences..

In the Fall of 2022, the authors of this article published an edited book exploring the rise of global Islamophobia in the War on Terror.[1] It was the first work of its kind to explore the complexities and depths of Islamophobic trends as an outgrowth of the War on Terror across six continents,..

The Nation of Islam, or NOI, was founded in 1930 as a politico-religious movement for Black empowerment in the United States. From 1960 onward, it intersected with other US liberation movements under the auspices of Elijah Muhammad, who served as NOI leader from 1934 until his death in 1975. Bes..

The indiscriminate criminalization of the various strands of political Islam, including the most legalistic kind, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, both in the European forums, France included, and in those of its partners from the Middle East, constitutes one of the most harmful diplomatic, polit..

La criminalisation indistincte des courants de l’islam politique, y compris les plus légalistes (tels les Frères musulmans), apparait aujourd’hui comme l’une des plus néfastes et des plus coûteuses contre-performances diplo..

The paranoid over-politicization of the social dynamics of a small fringe of the French population as well as the demonization of political Islam appear as a deep denial of the republican ideal. It comes down to criminalizing, for an illegal exercise of politics, whole sections of this small min..

Partners in life and art, Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal traveled the world in exile, searching for new landscapes and ideas. But the images they returned to again and again were rooted in the rust soils of Mount Lebanon, the cerulean horizon of the Mediterranean, and mythologies from Mesopotamia ..

Much has been written about the purported Islamist turn in Turkey under the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) over the last two decades. In its first decade in power, the AKP frequently presented itself as the Muslim and Turkish equivalent of Europe’s Christian Democratic parties. Indee..

What is Islamism? This is not an easy question to answer because Islamists generally see Islamism as a conceptual superimposition by infidels. They are Muslims, not Islamists. They work to live Islam. They work to make Islam prevail. They work to govern their Dar al-Islam. However, we know that ..

Turkey has become an emerging humanitarian actor in the last decade, with increasing activities of its government agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) abroad. The Turkish Cooperation and Development Agency (TIKA), which was established in 1992, became an influential actor in provid..

I am reading Utku Balaban and Nihat Celik’s most helpful contributions at a time when massive fires are burning forests across the country and the AKP government is failing in its response. The Turkish Lira is on a free fall in its value, the pandemic is not under control, once almost tangible d..

The strengths of Utku Balaban’s account are the parsimony and the emphasis on Islamists’ relation to the world economy. The role of small industrialists in the success of Islamist parties is crucial. They have been central to almost every major twist and turn in Turkish Islamist politics. Howeve..

I love the way this question displaces the author as master and asks how other forces made me write a book. I write within an ethnographic tradition of researchers who are transformed, transfigured, and replaced through research and the relationships that remak..

Lâle Can’s Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire is a meticulously researched and beautifully crafted book on the Central Asian hajj and Ottoman management of religious mobility. The subjects of the book are Muslim pilgrims from Russian an..

Between Empire and Nation: Muslim Reform in the Balkans tells the story of the transformation of the Muslim community in Bulgaria in the period between 1878 and 1908.  It explores how these former Ottoman subjects, now a minority under Bulgarian rule, ..

This book emerges from my commitment to study how sovereignty and gender frame the life of a nation. While in the book I take Pakistan as a case in point, the intersection of masculinity and militarism, and the instrumentalization of Islam to regulate people, a..

The Houthis—otherwise known as Ansar Allah, the Partisans of God—the de facto government in Sana’a, have steadily attempted to refashion Yemenis’ moral conduct in different public spaces, including universities, training venues, cafes, and restaurants. One such attempt was expressed in issuing d..

This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating about Islam and reflects a wide variety of opinions and approaches. It does not reflect the views of the Critical Currents in Islam page or of Jadaliyya.

The day after French schoolteacher Samuel Paty's horrific murder in the quiet Parisian suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on 17 October 2020, mourners gathered to participate in solidarity marches across France. They expressed outrage that Paty was murdered for exercising his right to freedom of..