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Islam v. Islamic State: Charges, Arguments, and Evidence in the Islamic Case Against ISIS (2023)
Book Chapter
Sheikh, N. S. (2023). Islam v. Islamic State: Charges, Arguments, and Evidence in the Islamic Case Against ISIS. In Politics Between Nations (497-517). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24896-2_24

When the Islamic State group reinvented itself as the new Caliphate in 2014, this illocutionary act followed from an extended process of semantic Islamization of brute politics. Its unholy violence, which for over half a decade made it the scourge of... Read More about Islam v. Islamic State: Charges, Arguments, and Evidence in the Islamic Case Against ISIS.

Reaction, Restoration, and the Return of Alpha-Islam (2023)
Book Chapter
Sheikh, N. S. (2023). Reaction, Restoration, and the Return of Alpha-Islam. In Routledge Handbook of Non-Violent Extremism (100-121). (1). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003032793-9

While the ambiguous notion of “Wahhabism” has captured both the popular imagination and public discourses of officialdom across the Western world, its precise theological and sociological entailments have been left for scholars to discern. This chapt... Read More about Reaction, Restoration, and the Return of Alpha-Islam.

Making Sense of Salafism: Theological foundations, ideological iterations, and political manifestations (2021)
Book Chapter
Sheikh. (2021). Making Sense of Salafism: Theological foundations, ideological iterations, and political manifestations. In The Routledge Handbook of Religion, Politics and Ideology. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367816230-16

"This comprehensive handbook examines relationships between religion, politics and ideology, with a focus on several world religions - Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Judaism - in a variety of contexts, regions and countries.