Dr. Murad Idris

Biography

Murad Idris is an Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Michigan. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, where he also earned his MA. His academic interests include political theory, history, and critical theory, with a focus on anticolonial and postcolonial thought, and international political theory. Idris’s book, War and Peace: Genealogies of Violent Ideal in Western Islamic Thought (2019), was honored with multiple awards including the David Easton Award from the American Political Science Association. He has co-edited The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory (2020) and has written several influential articles on comparative political theory and political theology. His work reflects a wide-ranging scholarly engagement with topics of colonialism and postcolonialism, ethics, and various forms of humanism and Islam. Idris previously held positions at the University of Virginia and other prestigious institutions such as the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard. He is currently engaged in several writing projects that rethink Islamic thought and its implications in contemporary discourse.

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