#  Malika Zeghal 

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor in Contemporary Islamic Thought and Life 

 

 

 



   ![Malika](/sites/g/files/omnuum5006/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/lowell/files/zeghalm_3_1.jpeg?itok=pyWcdeT2) 

 



 

 email <mzeghal@fas.harvard.edu> 

 



 

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.



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Interests
    
     [Study of Religion](/interests/study-religion)
- ## Role
    
     [Senior Common Room](/role/senior-common-room) [Faculty](/role/faculty)