27 October 2016
To Western scholars and specialists Salafism holds a double fascination: foremost it is treated as the fountainhead of jihadist ideology;... Read more
Category: Articles
03 August 2016
At the conference 'ISIS in Europe' a panel of scholars and security experts tackled the interlinked issues of jihadi radicalization... Read more
02 August 2016
Over the past twenty years, the painstakingly methodical, graduated, nuanced and non-violent strategy of political Islamists has been eclipsed by... Read more
16 June 2016
Few topics are as interesting and contentious as the role, status and future of Muslim communities in the West, specifically... Read more
13 February 2016
Scholars often locate the origins of the modern Islamic world in European colonialism or Islamic reactions to European modernity. A... Read more
15 September 2015
The Islamic State has become an entrenched jihadist statelet feeding off the failure of the Iraqi state and the chaos... Read more
22 April 2015
The rapid increase in the beatification of saints by the Roman Catholic Church starting in the early 20th century may... Read more
23 March 2015
Although relatively little attention is paid to it, Orthodox Christian migration in the West matters. A recent book offers various... Read more
16 February 2015
For the past fifteen years books authored by Harun Yahya have been available in several languages in Islamic bookshops around... Read more
22 November 2014
While organized religion does not stand in the way of greater space exploration, evangelicals are the most resistant to the... Read more