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 (Princeton 2016), winner of the 2017 Albert Hourani Prize from the Middle East Studies Association. He is a current Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow and a past member of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study. His most recent article, “Moments in Revolutionary Time,” appeared in the December 2020 issue of Middle East Law and Governance.