Bernard Haykel

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Bernard Haykel is professor of Near Eastern Studies and the director of the Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia at Princeton University.[1] He has been described as "the foremost secular authority on the Islamic State’s ideology" by journalist Graeme C.A. Wood.[2]

Haykel, of "partially" Lebanese ancestry, grew up in Lebanon and in the United States.[2] He obtained his Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Oxford and became a Guggenheim Fellow in 2010.[3]

He is the author of the book Revival and Reform in Islam: the Legacy of Muhammad al-Shawkānī (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization, Cambridge University Press, 2003).[4][5]

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  1. ^ "Bernard Haykel". Princeton University. Retrieved 17 February 2015. 
  2. ^ a b Wood, Graeme (March 2015). "What ISIS Really Wants". The Atlantic. Retrieved 17 February 2015. 
  3. ^ "Bernard Haykel", Guggenheim Fellows (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation), retrieved 2015-08-20 .
  4. ^ Reinhart, A. Kevin (December 2005), "Reviewed Work: Revival and Reform in Islam: the Legacy of Muhammad al-Shawkānī by Bernard Haykel", Middle East Studies Association Bulletin 39 (2): 226–228, JSTOR 23063033 .
  5. ^ Choudary, Maqsood (October 2004), "Revival and Reform in Islam: the Legacy of Muhammad al-Shawkani; Bernard Haykel", Digest of Middle East Studies 13 (2): 78–79, doi:10.1111/j.1949-3606.2004.tb00866.x 

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