Malika Zeghal

I am a political scientist who studies religion through the lens of Islam and power. I have more general interests in the circulation and role of religious ideologies in situations of conflict and/or dialogue and have published a study of central religious institutions in Egypt (Gardiens de l’Islam. Les oulémas d’al-Azhar dans l’Egypte contemporaine [Presses de Sciences Po, 1996]), and a volume on Islam and politics in Morocco (Islamism in Morocco: Religion, Authoritarianism, and Electoral Politics [Markus Wiener, 2008]). I edited a special issue of the Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, Intellectuels de l’islam contemporain. Nouvelles générations, nouveaux débats [123, 2008], on new intellectual debates in contemporary Islam. I am working on a book on states, secularity, and Islam in the contemporary Arab world, forthcoming at Princeton University Press.