Imaginative Landscapes of Islamist Politics Across the Balkan-to-Bengal Complex

Project Information

TAKHAYYUL

Grant agreement ID: 853230

DOI

10.3030/853230

EC signature date 18 May 2020

Start date 1 July 2020

End date 31 December 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 478 655,00

EU contribution

€ 1 478 655,00

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UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (25)

Diriliş: Resurrection theme in the populist regime of ‘New Turkey’

Author(s): Hazal Aydin
Published in: Open Research Europe, Issue 1, 2024, ISSN 2732-5121
Publisher: European Commission
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.16751.1

Genealogy, critique, and decolonization: Ibn Khaldun and moving beyond filling the gaps

Author(s): Sertaç Sehlikoglu
Published in: Open Research Europe, Issue 4, 2024, Page(s) 14, ISSN 2732-5121
Publisher: Open Research Europe
DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.16148.1

From Women's Revolution to Feminist Democracyاز انقلاب زنان تا دموکراسی زنانه‌نگر / فاطمه صادقی

Author(s): Fatemeh Sadeghi
Published in: Critique of political economy/ نقد اقتصاد سیاسی, Issue October 30, 2022, Page(s) 1-9, ISSN 2818-9434
Publisher: pecritique

Book Review: The Age of Counter-revolution: States and Revolutions in the Middle East by Jamie Allinson

Author(s): Fatemeh Sadeghi
Published in: Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Issue 19:1, 2023, Page(s) 101-103, ISSN 1558-9579
Publisher: Duke University Press
DOI: 10.1215/15525864-10256211

Imaginative landscapes of Islamist politics: An introduction to <i>takhayyul</i>

Author(s): Sertaç Sehlikoglu
Published in: History and Anthropology, Issue Online, 2025, Page(s) 1-23, ISSN 0275-7206
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2025.2486805

From Women’s Revolution to Jiyanist Democracy

Author(s): Fatemeh Sadeghi; and Setareh Shohadaei
Published in: Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Issue 19 (3), 2023, Page(s) 458–468, ISSN 1552-5864
Publisher: Indiana University Press
DOI: 10.1215/15525864-10815679

Kārwān’s talking forest: Materiality, poetic imagination, and the metaphysics of war violence

Author(s): James Caron
Published in: History and Anthropology, Issue 03 December 2024, 2024, Page(s) 1-24, ISSN 0275-7206
Publisher: Harwood Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2024.2435662

Global far right and imaginative interconnectivities

Author(s): Sertaç Sehlikoglu
Published in: Social Anthropology, Issue 29/2, 2021, Page(s) 360-362, ISSN 0964-0282
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1111/1469-8676.13039

Dialogue through Food: The Ethics of Adab and Islamic Welfare Organization

Author(s): Gregory Jackson, Sumrin Kalia
Published in: Academy of Management Proceedings, Issue 2023, 2023, ISSN 0065-0668
Publisher: Academy of Management
DOI: 10.5465/amproc.2023.343bp

Islam, critique, and the canon: an introduction

Author(s): Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Mashuq Kurt
Published in: Contemporary Islam, 2024, ISSN 1872-0226
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s11562-024-00555-y

Politicizing Prophethood: Techniques of Far-Right Encroachment on Civil Society in Pakistan

Author(s): Sumrin Kalia
Published in: International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, Issue Online, 2025, ISSN 1573-3416
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s10767-025-09514-8

Red Maulanas: Revisiting Islam and the Left in twentieth-century South Asia

Author(s): Layli Uddin
Published in: History Compass, Issue November, 2023, ISSN 1478-0542
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
DOI: 10.1111/hic3.12787

The Collapse of the Wall: The God Who Will Never Returnفروریختن دیوار: خدایی که دیگر بازنمی‌گردد / فاطمه صادقی

Author(s): Fatemeh Sadeghi
Published in: نقد اقتصاد سیاسی Critique of Political Economy, Issue October 1, 1401, 2022, Page(s) 1-7, ISSN 2818-9426
Publisher: pecritique

"Review: ""Say What Your Longing Heart Desires: Women, Prayer, and Poetry in Iran"" by Niloofar Haeri."

Author(s): Zora Kostadinova
Published in: Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, Issue 19:1, 2023, Page(s) 107-109, ISSN 1558-9579
Publisher: Duke University Press
DOI: 10.1215/15525864-10256239

The Murshids and the Messiahs: popular Messianism as a grassroots political movement in Contemporary Iran

Author(s): Fatemeh Sadeghi
Published in: Politics, Religion & Ideology, Issue 24:1, 2023, Page(s) 50-73, ISSN 2156-7697
Publisher: Taylor Francis
DOI: 10.1080/21567689.2023.2190890

“Our House Was a Small Islamic Republic”: Social Policing and Resilient Resistance in Contemporary Iran

Author(s): Alireza Delpazir, Fatemeh Sadeghi
Published in: Social Sciences, Issue 13, 2024, Page(s) 382, ISSN 2076-0760
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/socsci13080382

Casteist demons and working-class prophets: subaltern Islam in Bengal, circa 1872–1928

Author(s): Layli Uddin
Published in: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Issue First View, 2023, ISSN 1474-0591
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s1356186323000366

Inheritance without the heritage: fig trees and the ecological effects of imaginative attachments to fetih (conquest)

Author(s): Sertaç Sehlikoglu
Published in: International Journal of Heritage Studies, Issue Online First, 2025, ISSN 1470-3610
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2025.2496873

"Book Review: ""The Universal Enemy: Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge of Solidarity"" by Darryl Li. Stanford University Press, pp. 364, 2020."

Author(s): Zora Kostadinova
Published in: Cambridge Journal of Anthropology, Issue 39:1, 2021, Page(s) 150-151, ISSN 2047-7716
Publisher: Berghahn
DOI: 10.3167/cja.2021.390111

Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’

Author(s): Sertaç Sehlikoglu, James Caron, Ayse Polat
Published in: History and Anthropology, 2025, ISSN 1477-2612
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2025.2460787

Traitor over a night”: on critique and the fragility of privilege in the aftermath of Turkey’s coup attempt

Author(s): Sertaç Sehlikoglu
Published in: Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life, Issue 18 (1), 2023, ISSN 1872-0226
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s11562-023-00549-2

Edep: ethical imagination and the Sunna of the Prophet Muhammed

Author(s): Zora Kostadinova
Published in: Contemporary Islam, 2023, ISSN 1872-0226
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s11562-023-00548-3

Consuming Islam: media, ritual, and identity in the making of a brotherhood

Author(s): Sumrin Kalia
Published in: Religion, State and Society, Issue 51 (2), 2023, Page(s) 194-212, ISSN 0963-7494
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2023.2197843

Ethics without the Ethics: The Institutionalized Committees and the Question of Integrity

Author(s): Sertaç Sehlikoglu
Published in: Allegra Lab: Anthropology for Radical Optimism, 2024, ISSN 2343-0168
Publisher: Allegra Lab

Heritage in the margins: forgetting, remembering, rewriting

Author(s): Merve Kayikci, Sertac Sehlikoglu
Published in: International Journal of Heritage Studies, Issue 31 (9), 2025, Page(s) 1-9, ISSN 1352-7258
Publisher: University of Plymouth Press
DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2025.2543747

Book chapters (4)

God as Sovereign; Sovereign as God: An Archaeology of the Iranian Constitution

Author(s): Fatemeh Sadeghi
Published in: Sharia Law in the Twenty-First Century, Issue April, 2022, Page(s) 245-270
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
DOI: 10.1142/9781800611689_0011

The Transformative Potential of Intimacy: Turkish Coffee Talk and Ethnographic Listening

Author(s): Hazal Aydin
Published in: Fieldwork in the Global South, Issue 2024, 2024, ISSN 2343-0168
Publisher: Allegra Lab

Introduction: Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Global South

Author(s): Fatemeh Sadeghi, Sertaç Sehlikoglu
Published in: Allegra Lab: Anthropology for Radical Optimism, Issue Online, 2024, Page(s) Online, ISSN 2343-0168
Publisher: Allegra Lab

Locating Women and the Expansion of Islamic Morality in the New Turkey: Anthropological and Sociological Perspectives

Author(s): Sertaç Sehlikoglu, and Merve Kutuk-Kuris
Published in: The Oxford Handbook of Religion in Turkey, 2024, ISBN 9780197625330
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197624883.013.27

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

A statement from the incoming editor

Author(s): Sertaç Sehlikoglu
Published in: Contemporary Islam, Issue ONLINE, 2025, Page(s) 1-3, ISSN 1872-0218
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s11562-025-00584-1

Other (1)

on Commitment

Author(s): Mezna Qato
Published in: Fieldwork in the Global So, Issue Allegra Lab, 2024
Publisher: Allegra Lab

Monographic books (4)

Working Out Desire

Author(s): Sertaç Sehlikoglu
Published in: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East, 2021, ISBN 9780815636953
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvz9387h

Islamic Politics and the Imaginative: Intangibility and Critique; Guest Editor: Sertaç Sehlikoglu

Author(s): Sertaç Sehlikoglu
Published in: History and Anthropology, Issue 36:3, 2025, Page(s) 403-535, ISSN 0275-7206
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Islam, Critique, and the Canon

Author(s): Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Mashuq Kurt, Zora Kostadinova
Published in: Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life, Issue 18 (1), 2024
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s11562-024-00555-y

Conducting Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Global South

Author(s): Fatemeh Sadeghi, Sertaç Sehlikoglu
Published in: Allegra Lab: Anthropology for Radical Optimism, Issue Online, 2024, Page(s) Online, ISSN 2343-0168
Publisher: Allegra LAb