Bernard Haykel (born 1968) is

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and the director of the Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia at

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. He has been described as "the foremost secular authority on the Islamic State’s ideology" by journalist Graeme C.A. Wood. Haykel, of "partially" Lebanese ancestry, grew up in

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and in the United States. He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in

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in 1992–1993. He obtained a bachelor's degree in International Politics at Georgetown University, MA, M Phil and, in 1998,

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in Islamic and Middle-Eastern Studies from the

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. After working as a post-doctoral research fellow at Oxford University in Islamic Studies, he joined

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in 1998 as associate professor before taking up his post at Princeton. He became a

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in 2010. He is a member of the board of directors of the

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. In addition to English, Haykel is fluent in Arabic and French and has taught advanced level Arabic at Georgetown, Oxford and Princeton.

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. *''Revival and Reform in Islam: the Legacy of Muhammad al-Shawkānī'' (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization,

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, 2003).

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External links

Bernard Haykel: A lot of Muslims are embarrassed by ISIS

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. February 23, 2015 American people of Lebanese descent 21st-century American historians 21st-century American male writers Historians of Islam Living people Alumni of the University of Oxford Princeton University faculty 1968 births American male non-fiction writers {{islam-historian-stub