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]
- ^ 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.
© MMXXIII Rich X Search. We shall prevail. All rights reserved. Rich X Search