I'm an associate professor of Islamic and Arabic Studies at Utrecht 木瓜福利影视 and the director of . I'm interested in the intellectual history of contemporary Islam in the modern Arab world, with a focus on political thinking among Islamists. I always make use of Arabic primary (and secondary) sources and am also committed to translating some of these into English so as to make them available to a broader audience. I try to contextualise ideology by placing it in the broader political and socio-economic history in which ideas are produced, transformed and adopted and I often try to look for links with early-Islamic history to help explain modern debates.
My research has concentrated on Salafism and particularly Salafi ideology; the Muslim Brotherhood; citizenship, women's rights and Shiites' rights in Saudi Arabia; and Hamas. Geographically, my interests lie in the modern Arab world, mostly in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian territories, although I also spend time reading international Jihadi-Salafi discourse.
Apart from the usual forthcoming publications here and there, I am currently working on .