Barbara Zollner
Lecturer in Islamic Studies
Contact details
Tel: +44 (0) 20 30738226
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7631 6787
Email: b.zollner@bbk.ac.uk
Research interests
- Political Trends in the Middle East and North Africa
- Islamist movements
- Particularly their strategies and ideologies
- Muslim political and legal discourses
Areas of research supervision
- Political Islam; Islamist movements; Muslim Brotherhood; democratisation and conflict in states of the Near and Middle East; legal discourses on Islam and humanrights.
- If you are interested in pursuing research in any of these areas, you should first read our advice on how to apply for MPhil/PhD research before submitting an application.
Activities in professional organisations
- Network Coordinator British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES); visit the discussion board of BRISMES
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and member of the Area Studies Advisory Group
Recent publications and papers
- 'Islamic Jihad, the group', in: Gerhard Böwering ed. Encyclopaedia of Islamic Political Thought, Princeton: Princeton University Press
- ‘Mithliyyun or Lutiyyun? Neo-orthodoxy and the Debate on the Unlawfulness of Same-Sex Relations in Islam’, in: Samar Habib ed. Homosexuality and Islam, Westwood: Praeger
- Muslim Theologians and Scholars: Moderate and Progressive Voices, Policy Report for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, 2008.
- The Muslim Brotherhood: Hasan al-Hudaybi and Ideology, Routledge Series in Political Islam, Abington and New York: Routledge, 2008.
- ‘Prison Talk. The Muslim Brotherhood’s Internal Struggle During the Period of ‘Abdel Nasir’s Persecution, 1954 to 1971', in: International Journal of Middle East Studies 39:3, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Education
- MA Islamic Studies, Rheinischen-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- PhD Near and Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS
