Bernard Haykel

American historian

Bernard Haykel (born 1968)^[1] is professor of Near Eastern Studies and the director of the Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia at Princeton University.^[2]^[3] He has been described as "the foremost secular authority on the Islamic State’s ideology" by journalist Graeme C.A. Wood.^[4]

Haykel, of "partially" Lebanese ancestry, grew up in Lebanon and in the United States.^[4] He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in Yemen in 1992–1993. He obtained a bachelor's degree in International Politics at Georgetown University, MA, M Phil and, in 1998, Ph.D. in Islamic and Middle-Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford. After working as a post-doctoral research fellow at Oxford University in Islamic Studies, he joined New York University in 1998 as associate professor before taking up his post at Princeton.^[3] He became a Guggenheim Fellow in 2010.^[5] He is a member of the board of directors of the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington.^[6]

In addition to English, Haykel is fluent in Arabic and French and has taught advanced level Arabic at Georgetown, Oxford and Princeton.^[7]

Books

Saudi Arabia in Transition; Insights on Social, Political, Economic and Religious Change. (Cambridge University Press, 2015) co-editor with Thomas Hegghammer, and Stéphane Lacroix.^[8]
Revival and Reform in Islam: the Legacy of Muhammad al-Shawkānī (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization, Cambridge University Press, 2003).^[9]^[10]

References

^ Haykel, Bernard (2003-05-27). Revival and Reform in Islam: The Legacy of Muhammad Al-Shawkani. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521528900.
^ "Bernard Haykel". Princeton University. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Declaration of Prof. Bernard Haykel" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-10-17. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
^ ^a ^b Wood, Graeme (March 2015). "What ISIS Really Wants". The Atlantic. Retrieved 17 February 2015.
^ "Bernard Haykel", Guggenheim Fellows, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, retrieved 2015-08-20.
^ "Bernard Haykel, PhD". Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
^ "Declaration of Prof. Bernard Haykel" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-10-17. Retrieved 29 November 2015.
^ Waterbury, John (September 2015). "Saudi Arabia in Transition: Insights on Social, Political, Economic and Religious Change (book review)". Foreign Affairs. Retrieved 2 December 2015.
^ Reinhart, A. Kevin (December 2005), "Reviewed Work: Revival and Reform in Islam: the Legacy of Muhammad al-Shawkānī by Bernard Haykel", Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 39 (2): 226–228, doi:10.1017/S002631840004832X, JSTOR 23063033, S2CID 164464025.
^ Choudary, Maqsood (October 2004), "Revival and Reform in Islam: the Legacy of Muhammad al-Shawkani; Bernard Haykel", Digest of Middle East Studies, 13 (2): 78–79, doi:10.1111/j.1949-3606.2004.tb00866.x