Barbara  Zollner

Lecturer in Islamic Studies

MA Islamic Studies,  Rheinischen-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn

PhD Near and Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS

Tel: +44 (0) 20 30738226
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7631 6787
e-mail: 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

Activities in Professional Organisations

Network Coordinator British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES); for BRISMES see http://www.brismes.ac.uk/ and for the discussion board of the network see http://www.meetup.com/BRISMES-British-Society-for-Middle-Eastern-Studies/

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA) and member of the Area Studies Advisory Group; for further information on the HEA see http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ and for the Area Studies Subject Centre see http://www.llas.ac.uk/areastudies.html.

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.