Religion & Politics

Two Muslim women take pictures after the first Friday prayers during the month of Ramadan at Diyanet Center of America in Lanham, Maryland, U.S., May 10, 2019. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky - RC15CA4BC8D0

Order from Chaos

For religious American Muslims, hostility from the right and disdain from the left

Monday, August 5, 2019

People hold banners reading "Refugees and Muslims are welcome" during a memorial service held for those killed on Saturday by a 22-year-old gunman, in Copenhagen February 16, 2015. Danish police said on Monday they had charged two people with aiding the man suspected of shooting dead two people in attacks on a synagogue and an event promoting free speech in Copenhagen at the weekend. The shootings, which Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt called acts of terrorism, sent shockwaves through Denmark and have been compared to the January attacks in Paris by Islamist militants that killed 17. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger (DENMARK - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS RELIGION CIVIL UNREST) - LR2EB2G1L133Y

Religion & Politics

Islam as a “floating signifier”: Right-wing populism and perceptions of Muslims in Denmark

Susi Meret and Andreas Beyer Gregersen

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Anti-immigration party Alternative for Germany (AfD) chairwoman Frauke Petry (R) and party member Armin Paul Hampel (background R) meet with Nurhan Soykan, first deputy chairwoman of the Central Council of Muslims in Germany and Sadiqu Al-Mousllie (2nd L) member of the Syrian opposition in Germany, at a hotel in Berlin, Germany May 23, 2016. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt - LR1EC5N0S6B8U

Religion & Politics

Right-wing populism in Germany: Muslims and minorities after the 2015 refugee crisis

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Syrian migrants walk along a railway track after crossing the Hungarian-Serbian border into Hungary, near Roszke, August 26, 2015. Hungary's government has started to construct a 175-km-long (110-mile-long) fence on its border with Serbia in order to halt a massive flow of migrants who enter the EU via Hungary and head to western Europe. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh - GF10000182998

Religion & Politics

Anti-Muslim populism in Hungary: From the margins to the mainstream

Péter Krekó, Bulcsú Hunyadi, and Patrik Szicherle

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Reports

Muslims hold Friday prayers in front of the Colosseum in Rome, Italy October 21, 2016, to protest against the closure of unlicensed mosques. REUTERS/Tony Gentile - D1BEUIGTQKAA

Religion & Politics

Muslims in the West and the rise of the new populists: The case of Italy

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders of the PVV party reacts as a dog barks at him as he campaigns in Valkenburg, Netherlands, March 11, 2017. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez - RC1F934580E0

Religion & Politics

“The biggest problem in the Netherlands”: Understanding the Party for Freedom’s politicization of Islam

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

John Lenges, a resident of Pinellas County who changed parties to vote Republican in 2016, and his sister Jeanne Coffin cheer at the conclusion of U.S. President Donald Trumps re-election campaign kick off rally in Orlando, Florida, U.S., June 18, 2019. Picture taken June 18, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder - RC1AE0E19DD0

Religion & Politics

Ambivalent nativism: Trump supporters’ attitudes toward Islam and Muslim immigration

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Supporters of the FPOe Freedom Party attend the final European election rally in Vienna, Austria May 24, 2019. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger - RC11F726B360

Religion & Politics

The new right: Austria’s Freedom Party and changing perceptions of Islam

Farid Hafez, Reinhard Heinisch, and Eric Miklin

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Supporters attend the convention of the ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) in Warsaw, Poland September 2, 2018. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel - RC1DDF0CF280

Religion & Politics

Imaginary Muslims: How the Polish right frames Islam

Agnieszka Dudzińska and Michał Kotnarowski

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Blog Posts

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with a Muslim cleric as he visits the Zitouna mosque in the Medina (old town) of the Tunisian capital Tunis, Tunisia, February 1, 2018. REUTERS/Eric Feferberg/Pool - RC1DF0E93920

Order from Chaos

Islam, made in France? Debating the reform of Muslim organizations and foreign funding for religion

Rim-Sarah Alouane

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Indonesian President Joko Widodo and his running mate for the 2019 presidential election Islamic cleric Ma'ruf Amin wave after registering for the election at the General Election Commission in Jakarta, Indonesia August 10, 2018 in this photo taken by Antara Foto. Antara Foto/Akbar Nugroho Gumay/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. MANDATORY CREDIT. INDONESIA OUT. - RC16976DBB40

Order from Chaos

Is Islam an increasingly polarizing political cleavage in Indonesia?

Alexander R. Arifianto

Thursday, April 25, 2019

African would-be immigrants (front) pray inside a mosque near the CETI (Short-stay Immigrant Centre) during the fasting month of Ramadan in Spain's North African enclave of Melilla October 10, 2005. Morocco, under pressure to stem illegal immigration to Spain and accused by rights groups of mistreating migrants, began flying detained Africans to Senegal and Mali on Monday, government officials said. 'We have already flown 140 illegal migrants back home in Senegal this morning and we are preparing a flight of 140 others also to Senegal soon from Oujda,' a senior official told Reuters. REUTERS/Andrea Comas - RP2DSFIXLEAB

Order from Chaos

Morocco, commander of the (African) faithful?

Monday, April 8, 2019

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Events

Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy

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Trump-driven polarization reflects divergent views of America’s future

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The future of political Islam: Trends and prospects

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Multimedia

A view of minarets of Prophet Mohammad's Mosque in the holy city of Medina January 3, 2007. Pilgrims from all over the world gather in the holy city of Mecca each year for the five-day haj, which is a duty for every able-bodied Muslim at least once in a lifetime. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (SAUDI ARABIA) FOR BEST QUALITY IMAGE: ALSO SEE GF2E5440NM001 - GM1DUHYIKUAA

Order from Chaos

Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Indonesian Muslims attend Friday prayers at the Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta July 23, 2010. Indonesia's Muslims learned last week they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country's highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa. Muslims are supposed to face the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia during prayer and the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued an edict in March stipulating westward was the correct direction from the world's most populous Muslim country. It has now said the true direction is north-west. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA - Tags: RELIGION ODDLY IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E67N18IZ01

Podcast Episode

How Saudi Arabia and Iran use Islam in foreign policy

Shadi Hamid, Peter Mandaville, and Fred Dews

Friday, January 11, 2019

On September 16-18, 2017, the Brookings Institution, in conjunction with the State of Qatar, will convene the 13th annual U.S.-Islamic World Forum in New York, NY. The theme of this years Forum is Crisis and Cooperation.

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Experts debate the intersections of Islam, democracy, pluralism, and citizenship in the Middle East

William McCants and Rashid Dar

Tuesday, October 3, 2017

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