In this meticulously researched volume, Leonard Wood presents his ground breaking history
of Islamic revivalist thought in Islamic law. Islamic Legal Revival: Reception of European …

The literature on student activism finds that protesters come from prestigious universities and
from the social sciences and humanities. Studies of political Islam, however, emphasize the …

This thesis considers the effects of nationalism on the autonomy of intellectuals in Egypt. I
argue that nationalism limits intellectuals' ability to challenge social hierarchies, political …

This article demonstrates the importance of performance–and in particular performances
that blur boundaries between aesthetical styles–to the emergence and impact of 'new …

A large body of scholarship asserts that students of engineering and medicine are
overrepresented in Islamist movements. It also claims that political Islam emerges from …