Dr. Michael Farquhar

Biography

Michael completed his PhD in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He also holds an MA in Near Middle Eastern Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies and a BA in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. He is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at SOAS. His current research focuses on the history of politics and policing in twentieth-century Egypt, exploring how discourses and practices of policing have been implicated in the maintenance and refashioning of social and political order. Michael has contributed to discussions on Saudi state-funded Islamic missionary work in the twentieth century, addressing themes such as Salafism, Islamic education, and religious transnationalism. His book, Circuits of Faith: Migration, Education, and the Wahhabi Mission (Stanford University Press, 2016), received an honorable mention from the International Studies Association's Religion and International Relations Book Award. His work has been published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies.

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