All Outputs (10)

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.

Against Faux Feminism: The Heroic and the Horrific in Female Suicide Bombing (2022)
Journal Article
Sheikh, N. (in press). Against Faux Feminism: The Heroic and the Horrific in Female Suicide Bombing. Peace Review,

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.

Ali Mazrui: The Global Muslim Thinker (2016)
Journal Article
Sheikh, N. S., & Ali Salem, A. (2016). Ali Mazrui: The Global Muslim Thinker. American journal of Islamic social sciences,

Mazrui: Man, Mission, Movement (2016)
Journal Article
Sheikh, N. S. Mazrui: Man, Mission, Movement. American Journal of Islam and Society, 33(3), v-xii. https://doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v33i3.917

In the checkered history of Africology, from early colonial endeavors to the brave new world of postcolonialist dissections, few scholars elicited the excitement and adoration that Professor Ali Al-Amin Mazrui (1933-2014) did. On the very continen... Read More about Mazrui: Man, Mission, Movement.

Five Charges in the Islamic Case against the Islamic State (2015)
Journal Article
Sheikh, N. (2015). Five Charges in the Islamic Case against the Islamic State. Panorama,

Body Count: A Comparative Quantitative Study of Mass Killings in History (2015)
Book Chapter
Sheikh, N. (2015). Body Count: A Comparative Quantitative Study of Mass Killings in History. In Islam and the Law of Armed Conflict. Edward Elgar Publishing

Reclaiming Jihad as a Strategy of Conflict Transformation (2015)
Journal Article
S. Sheikh, N. (2015). Reclaiming Jihad as a Strategy of Conflict Transformation. Peace Review, 27(3), 288-295. https://doi.org/10.1080/10402659.2015.1063370

The imagery of “jihad” provokes persistent unease within a global society that increasingly subscribes to a liberal conception of order, centered in part on the constriction of violence in (and to) matters political. The Westphalian state system that... Read More about Reclaiming Jihad as a Strategy of Conflict Transformation.

Postmodern Pan-Islamism?: The International Politics, and Polemics, of Contemporary Islam (2002)
Journal Article
Sheikh, N. S. (2002). Postmodern Pan-Islamism?: The International Politics, and Polemics, of Contemporary Islam. Journal of Third World Studies, 19(2), 43-61