Bernard Haykel (born 1968) is

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of Near Eastern Studies 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 grew up in

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and 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, Ph.D. 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 Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. In addition to English, Haykel is fluent in Arabic and French and has taught advanced level Arabic at Georgetown, Oxford and Princeton. According to BBC News, Haykel speaks regularly to

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, the authoritarian ruler of Saudi Arabia.

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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