Michael Farquhar
Biographic Data
| ID | 205433 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Farquhar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Farquhar |
| SIGNATURE | FARQUHAR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8221-0754 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Historicizing the Neoliberal Security State
Responding to recent calls to situate the neoliberal security state within longue durée transnational histories of colonialism and capitalist expansion, this paper focuses on historicizing the discourses developed by police actors in one such state to rationalize and legitimize their work. Drawing on a previously unexplored trove of Arabic-language professional writings by Egyptian officers, I trace how they responded to economic liberalization f…
Sacrifice, commemoration, and resistance
The central contribution of Deniz Yonucu's Police, Provocation, Politics is to show that counterinsurgency strategies employed by Turkish security forces in working-class Istanbul neighborhoods with strong leftist revolutionary traditions do not aspire to eliminate dissent; rather, they manage it, shape it, and even provoke it in the service of a “war on politics” aimed at disrupting progressive solidarities. In developing this insight, Yonucu pu…
Salafism After the Arab Awakening
This important collection, which brings together some of the most prominent and insightful researchers in the field, explores how representatives of various strands of Salafism have sought to deal with the forces unleashed during and after the Arab uprisings. The contributors show that, while the uprisings had little to do with religion in the first instance, one of their unintended consequences has been a remarkable set of transformations in the…
Circuits of Faith
Circuits of Faith
The Islamic University of Medina was established by the Saudi state in 1961 to provide religious instruction primarily to foreign students. Students would come to Medina for religious education and were then expected to act as missionaries, promoting an understanding of Islam in line with the core tenets of Wahhabism. By the early 2000s, more than 11,000 young men from across the globe had graduated from the Islamic University. Circuits of Faith …
Saudi Petrodollars, Spiritual Capital, and the Islamic University of Medina
While the idea that Saudi Arabia has functioned as a beacon of ultraconservative religious influence since the 1970s oil boom is commonplace, the modalities of this influence have rarely been seriously interrogated. As a window onto this issue, this article considers the history of the Islamic University of Medina, an influential Wahhabi missionary project with global ambitions. It pays particular attention to the role played by non-Saudi staff, …
From Mission to Modernity
Paul Sedra, London, I.B. Tauris, 2011, viii +245 pp In this anthropologically minded take on education in nineteenth century Egypt, Paul Sedra pays special attention to the impact and reception of
Saudi Petrodollars, Spiritual Capital, and the Islamic University of Medina
While the idea that Saudi Arabia has functioned as a beacon of ultraconservative religious influence since the 1970s oil boom is commonplace, the modalities of this influence have rarely been seriously interrogated. As a window onto this issue, this article considers the history of the Islamic University of Medina, an influential Wahhabi missionary project with global ambitions. It pays particular attention to the role played by non-Saudi staff, …
From Mission to Modernity
Paul Sedra, London, I.B. Tauris, 2011, viii +245 pp In this anthropologically minded take on education in nineteenth century Egypt, Paul Sedra pays special attention to the impact and reception of
Saudi Petrodollars, Spiritual Capital, and the Islamic University of Medina
While the idea that Saudi Arabia has functioned as a beacon of ultraconservative religious influence since the 1970s oil boom is commonplace, the modalities of this influence have rarely been seriously interrogated. As a window onto this issue, this article considers the history of the Islamic University of Medina, an influential Wahhabi missionary project with global ambitions. It pays particular attention to the role played by non-Saudi staff, …
Circuits of Faith
Circuits of Faith
The Islamic University of Medina was established by the Saudi state in 1961 to provide religious instruction primarily to foreign students. Students would come to Medina for religious education and were then expected to act as missionaries, promoting an understanding of Islam in line with the core tenets of Wahhabism. By the early 2000s, more than 11,000 young men from across the globe had graduated from the Islamic University. Circuits of Faith …
Salafism After the Arab Awakening
This important collection, which brings together some of the most prominent and insightful researchers in the field, explores how representatives of various strands of Salafism have sought to deal with the forces unleashed during and after the Arab uprisings. The contributors show that, while the uprisings had little to do with religion in the first instance, one of their unintended consequences has been a remarkable set of transformations in the…
Sacrifice, commemoration, and resistance
The central contribution of Deniz Yonucu's Police, Provocation, Politics is to show that counterinsurgency strategies employed by Turkish security forces in working-class Istanbul neighborhoods with strong leftist revolutionary traditions do not aspire to eliminate dissent; rather, they manage it, shape it, and even provoke it in the service of a “war on politics” aimed at disrupting progressive solidarities. In developing this insight, Yonucu pu…
Historicizing the Neoliberal Security State
Responding to recent calls to situate the neoliberal security state within longue durée transnational histories of colonialism and capitalist expansion, this paper focuses on historicizing the discourses developed by police actors in one such state to rationalize and legitimize their work. Drawing on a previously unexplored trove of Arabic-language professional writings by Egyptian officers, I trace how they responded to economic liberalization f…
History (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Faith (2 works) · History (2 works) · Islam (2 works)