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Noah Salomon

Noah Salomon is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia where he holds the Irfan and Noreen Galaria Research Chair in Islamic Studies. He is the author of For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan's Islamic State, winner of the 2017 Albert Hourani Prize from the Middle East Studies Association and an Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion from the American Academy of Religion. His most recent article, “The School of the One: A Mystery on Canvas,” appeared in the Lebanese journal Regards: Revue des arts du spectacle, 28, October 2022.  From 2018-2023, Salomon has been an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow, circulating between Beirut, Khartoum, and Muscat exploring Islamic modes of articulating, managing, and negotiating difference, particularly at inflection points of social and political change.

Symposia

Religion, State, Sovereignty: Interventions and Conversations

The essays seek a genealogy of and reckoning with the place of religion in modern regimes of sovereignty, its pre-colonial histories and post-colonial legacies, as well as an accounting of the fissures that remain in its emplacement, out of which new life continues to grow. 

Essays

Introduction: Religion, State, Sovereignty: Interventions and Conversations

The essays seek a genealogy of and reckoning with the place of religion in modern regimes of sovereignty, its pre-colonial histories and post-colonial legacies, as well as an accounting of the fissures that remain in its emplacement, out of which new life continues to grow.

Saba Mahmood

Saba Mahmood (1962-2018) was a pioneering anthropologist of Islam and secularism, a feminist theorist of gender and religion, and a critic of liberal certainties.