Striking From The Margins: State, Religion and Devolution of Authority in the Middle East

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Professor Aziz Al-Azmeh is Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of History at the Central European University (CEU). He has been Visiting Professor at Yale University Columbia University the University of California Berkeley Georgetown University and more recently at the Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations of the Aga Khan University (London) and SciencesPo Paris. His publications include Islams and Modernities The Emergence of Islam in late Antiquity (Cambridge University Press) and Secularism in the Arab World: Contexts Ideas and Consequences (Edinburgh University Press). Professor Nadia Al-Bagdadi is Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at CEU. A historian of modern Islamic history thought literature and culture she studied at the Freie Universitat in Berlin in Cairo and Tunis. Dr Harith Hasan is a Senior SFM Fellow at the CEU and a senior non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Middle East Center. He is writing a book on the reconstitution of the relationship between the state and religious entities in post-2003 Iraq. Dr Harout Akdedian is Carnegie SFM research fellow at the CEU's Centre for Religious Studies and visiting scholar at Portland State University's Middle East Studies Center. Akdedian is currently working on his book Stifling the Public Domain in Syria: A Decade of Violence and Beyond.