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

External links

• Bernard Haykel: A lot of Muslims are embarrassed by ISIS. Anderson Cooper 360°. CNN. February 23, 2015

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