This week on the Monkey Cage (click names for articles): Toby Matthiesen of the University of Cambridge evaluates sectarianism after…
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The Islamic State as an ordinary insurgency
By Reyko Huang, Texas A&M University This essay was prepared for the “Islam and International Order” workshop, April 29-30, 2015. …
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POMEPS Studies 12: Islamism in the IS Age
Islamism in the IS Age POMEPS Studies 12 — March 17, 2015 The “IS-ification of Islamist politics,” in Khalil al-Anani’s…
Continue ReadingIslam and Islamists in the 2014 Tunisian elections
By Elizabeth L. Young, University of Michigan *This memo was prepared for the “Islamic Politics in the Shadow of the…
Continue ReadingWhose colonialism? The contested memory of the Sykes-Picot Agreement
By Meghan Tinsley, Boston University *This memo was prepared for the “Rethinking Nation and Nationalism” workshop, February 6, 2015. In…
Continue ReadingVanilla Muslims: Decentering sects in the analysis of political Islam
By Peter Mandaville, George Mason University *This memo was prepared for the “Islamist Politics in the Shadow of the Islamic…
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