Middle East Strategy at Harvard

Bernard Haykel is Professor in Near Eastern Studies and Director, Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia at Princeton University. He was formerly associate professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern History in New York University’s Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.

Haykel received his Ph.D. from Oxford University. His primary research interests center on Islamic political movements and legal thought. He has published extensively on the Salafi movement in both its pre-modern and modern manifestations. His book Revival and Reform in Islam (Cambridge University Press, 2003) explores this strand of Islamic legal and political thought. He is presently writing a book on the religious politics of Saudi Arabia since the early 1950s.

Haykel has also advised the British and US governments on Islamic affairs and has been involved in a number of key court cases relating to terrorism since 9/11.

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