Barbara Zollner

Lecturer in Islamic Studies

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Tel: +44 (0) 20 30738226
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7631 6784
Email: b.zollner@bbk.ac.uk

Political trends in the Middle East and North Africa
Islamist movements, particularly the Muslim Brotherhood
Social Movement Theory with particular interest in the resource mobilisation and framing processes of Islamist movements

Islamism and Islamist movements: organisational structures, strategies, 'ideological' positions, attitudes towards the state
authoritarianism and democratisation in states of the Near and Middle East
legal discourses on human rights.
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.

‘Opening to Reform: al-Hudaybi’s Legacy’, in: Roel Meijer ed. The Muslim Brotherhood in Europe: Transnationalization and Localization of an Islamic Movement, London: Hurst & Co, 2012.
‘The Muslim Brotherhood’, in: Shahram Akbarzadeh ed. Routledge Handbook on Political Islam, New York and London: Routledge, 2012.
'Islamic Jihad, the group', in: Gerhard Böwering ed. The Princeton Encyclopaedia of Islamic Political Thought, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
‘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, 2011
‘Muraji‘aat: Egypt’s Pact with Radical Islam’, in: Arches Quarterly 3:5, London: Cordoba Foundation, 2010.
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, 2007.