Jeffry R Halverson
Biographic Data
| ID | 2132927 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffry R Halverson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffry R |
| FAMILY NAME | Halverson |
| SIGNATURE | HALVERSON J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Coastal Carolina University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5593-7106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Judeo‐Islamic God
This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic Judaism, El‐Yahweh. By discussing the presence of Jews in ancient Arabia, this article analyzes how Jewish…
Religion before the Academy
Following Jonathan Z. Smith’s influential work, scholars in the academy have affirmed that religion (as a demarcated object) is a Western construct that did not exist prior to the European Enlightenment. This analysis argues that scholars have neglected data that refutes this conclusion. Perhaps informed by a Eurocentric bias, scholars have neglected premodern Muslim demarcations of religion or, in other instances, reduced the matter to a debate …
Embodying the Mahdi
This study explores modern Islamic messianism as a mode of tajdid, or religious renewal, during the colonial era. It analyzes the case of a nineteenth-century religious movement among the Lebou people of the Cap-Vert peninsula in French West Africa, now Senegal, known as the Layene Brotherhood (La Confrérie Layenne). The sect began when Libasse Thiaw (d. 1909), known as Mouhammadou Limamou Laye, proclaimed himself the awaited Mahdi, and his eldes…
Ideology as Narrative
This article examines a corpus of extremist Islamist texts for the period from 2007 to 2012, including transcripts of audio and videos produced by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghrib ( AQIM ). Utilizing narrative analysis, we examine the way AQIM used mythic discourse to disseminate its ideology to audiences and to defend its actions and focus on the deployment of longstanding culturally-embedded ‘master narratives’ in fragmentary forms as sense-maki…
West African Islam in Colonial and Antebellum South Carolina
Over the last 20 years, scholars have begun to critically investigate the historical presence of enslaved African Muslims in the Americas, including the United States. Studies are typically broad in scope. Meanwhile, the vast body of scholarship on American slavery produced by non-Islamicists has generally disregarded or overlooked the retention of Muslim practices or beliefs among slaves. This study examines the presence of West African Muslims …
Mediated Martyrs of the Arab Spring
This article analyzes the emergence of nationalist martyr narratives and their dissemination via new media as forces for social mobilization and political change. Situating them in the religio-historical contexts of North Africa, we trace martyr narratives in Tunisia and Egypt back to pre-Islamic periods and compare them to the contemporary stories of Mohamed Bouazizi and Khaled Saeed. This reveals the impact of new media on the region, evident i…
The Anti‐Shi ̔a Polemics of an Online Salafi‐Jihadi
The curious case of Colleen LaRose
This article examines the case of the American terrorist Colleen LaRose, known as ‘JihadJane’. By employing social theories and psychological approaches to terrorism, the authors argue that the online radicalization of marginalized individuals like LaRose must be understood through personal histories and existing social and cultural tensions, rather than the seductive power of extremist ideologies. Therefore, in the age of new media, countering t…
Searching for a King
Explores the lives and teachings of Muslim scholars and activists who champion nonviolent interpretations of Islam, including Jawdat Saeed (Syria), Wahiduddin Khan (India), Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Shirazi (Iraq), Mahmoud Muhammad Taha (Sudan), and Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Afghanistan/Pakistan)
Master Narratives of Islamist Extremism
This volume introduces the concept of Islamist extremist 'master narratives' and offers a method for identifying and analyzing them. Drawing on rhetorical and narrative theories, the chapters examine
Islamist Feminism
This article analyzes the emergence of female Islamist leaders in the Middle East and North Africa, and the glaring contradictions between their feminist views and their roles as political activists for the Islamic State. The two Islamist leaders who form the primary focus of this analysis are Zaynab al-Ghazali (d. 2005) of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Nadia Yassine of Morocco's Justice and Charity Society. Our analysis reveals the existence of…
Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam
This book explores the correlation between anti-theological thought and the rise of Islamism in the twentieth century by examining Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and the leadership of Umar al-Tilmisani (d
Youths in Violent Extremist Discourse
This article examines the discursive strategies employed by violent extremists to build a persuasive collective youth identity, drawing from strategic communication, social movement, and membership categorization theories to analyze youth references from texts disseminated by Al Qaeda from 1996–2009. “Youth” is constructed via (a) ascriptions of allegiance to a common belief system whereby militant actions are directed toward establishing a new s…
Youths in Violent Extremist Discourse
This article examines the discursive strategies employed by violent extremists to build a persuasive collective youth identity, drawing from strategic communication, social movement, and membership categorization theories to analyze youth references from texts disseminated by Al Qaeda from 1996–2009. “Youth” is constructed via (a) ascriptions of allegiance to a common belief system whereby militant actions are directed toward establishing a new s…
West African Islam in Colonial and Antebellum South Carolina
Over the last 20 years, scholars have begun to critically investigate the historical presence of enslaved African Muslims in the Americas, including the United States. Studies are typically broad in scope. Meanwhile, the vast body of scholarship on American slavery produced by non-Islamicists has generally disregarded or overlooked the retention of Muslim practices or beliefs among slaves. This study examines the presence of West African Muslims …
The curious case of Colleen LaRose
This article examines the case of the American terrorist Colleen LaRose, known as ‘JihadJane’. By employing social theories and psychological approaches to terrorism, the authors argue that the online radicalization of marginalized individuals like LaRose must be understood through personal histories and existing social and cultural tensions, rather than the seductive power of extremist ideologies. Therefore, in the age of new media, countering t…
Islamist Feminism
This article analyzes the emergence of female Islamist leaders in the Middle East and North Africa, and the glaring contradictions between their feminist views and their roles as political activists for the Islamic State. The two Islamist leaders who form the primary focus of this analysis are Zaynab al-Ghazali (d. 2005) of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Nadia Yassine of Morocco's Justice and Charity Society. Our analysis reveals the existence of…
Religion before the Academy
Following Jonathan Z. Smith’s influential work, scholars in the academy have affirmed that religion (as a demarcated object) is a Western construct that did not exist prior to the European Enlightenment. This analysis argues that scholars have neglected data that refutes this conclusion. Perhaps informed by a Eurocentric bias, scholars have neglected premodern Muslim demarcations of religion or, in other instances, reduced the matter to a debate …
Embodying the Mahdi
This study explores modern Islamic messianism as a mode of tajdid, or religious renewal, during the colonial era. It analyzes the case of a nineteenth-century religious movement among the Lebou people of the Cap-Vert peninsula in French West Africa, now Senegal, known as the Layene Brotherhood (La Confrérie Layenne). The sect began when Libasse Thiaw (d. 1909), known as Mouhammadou Limamou Laye, proclaimed himself the awaited Mahdi, and his eldes…
Ideology as Narrative
This article examines a corpus of extremist Islamist texts for the period from 2007 to 2012, including transcripts of audio and videos produced by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghrib ( AQIM ). Utilizing narrative analysis, we examine the way AQIM used mythic discourse to disseminate its ideology to audiences and to defend its actions and focus on the deployment of longstanding culturally-embedded ‘master narratives’ in fragmentary forms as sense-maki…
The Anti‐Shi ̔a Polemics of an Online Salafi‐Jihadi
Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam
This book explores the correlation between anti-theological thought and the rise of Islamism in the twentieth century by examining Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and the leadership of Umar al-Tilmisani (d
Youths in Violent Extremist Discourse
This article examines the discursive strategies employed by violent extremists to build a persuasive collective youth identity, drawing from strategic communication, social movement, and membership categorization theories to analyze youth references from texts disseminated by Al Qaeda from 1996–2009. “Youth” is constructed via (a) ascriptions of allegiance to a common belief system whereby militant actions are directed toward establishing a new s…
Master Narratives of Islamist Extremism
This volume introduces the concept of Islamist extremist 'master narratives' and offers a method for identifying and analyzing them. Drawing on rhetorical and narrative theories, the chapters examine
Islamist Feminism
This article analyzes the emergence of female Islamist leaders in the Middle East and North Africa, and the glaring contradictions between their feminist views and their roles as political activists for the Islamic State. The two Islamist leaders who form the primary focus of this analysis are Zaynab al-Ghazali (d. 2005) of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and Nadia Yassine of Morocco's Justice and Charity Society. Our analysis reveals the existence of…
The curious case of Colleen LaRose
This article examines the case of the American terrorist Colleen LaRose, known as ‘JihadJane’. By employing social theories and psychological approaches to terrorism, the authors argue that the online radicalization of marginalized individuals like LaRose must be understood through personal histories and existing social and cultural tensions, rather than the seductive power of extremist ideologies. Therefore, in the age of new media, countering t…
Searching for a King
Explores the lives and teachings of Muslim scholars and activists who champion nonviolent interpretations of Islam, including Jawdat Saeed (Syria), Wahiduddin Khan (India), Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Shirazi (Iraq), Mahmoud Muhammad Taha (Sudan), and Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Afghanistan/Pakistan)
Mediated Martyrs of the Arab Spring
This article analyzes the emergence of nationalist martyr narratives and their dissemination via new media as forces for social mobilization and political change. Situating them in the religio-historical contexts of North Africa, we trace martyr narratives in Tunisia and Egypt back to pre-Islamic periods and compare them to the contemporary stories of Mohamed Bouazizi and Khaled Saeed. This reveals the impact of new media on the region, evident i…
The Anti‐Shi ̔a Polemics of an Online Salafi‐Jihadi
West African Islam in Colonial and Antebellum South Carolina
Over the last 20 years, scholars have begun to critically investigate the historical presence of enslaved African Muslims in the Americas, including the United States. Studies are typically broad in scope. Meanwhile, the vast body of scholarship on American slavery produced by non-Islamicists has generally disregarded or overlooked the retention of Muslim practices or beliefs among slaves. This study examines the presence of West African Muslims …
Ideology as Narrative
This article examines a corpus of extremist Islamist texts for the period from 2007 to 2012, including transcripts of audio and videos produced by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghrib ( AQIM ). Utilizing narrative analysis, we examine the way AQIM used mythic discourse to disseminate its ideology to audiences and to defend its actions and focus on the deployment of longstanding culturally-embedded ‘master narratives’ in fragmentary forms as sense-maki…
Embodying the Mahdi
This study explores modern Islamic messianism as a mode of tajdid, or religious renewal, during the colonial era. It analyzes the case of a nineteenth-century religious movement among the Lebou people of the Cap-Vert peninsula in French West Africa, now Senegal, known as the Layene Brotherhood (La Confrérie Layenne). The sect began when Libasse Thiaw (d. 1909), known as Mouhammadou Limamou Laye, proclaimed himself the awaited Mahdi, and his eldes…
Religion before the Academy
Following Jonathan Z. Smith’s influential work, scholars in the academy have affirmed that religion (as a demarcated object) is a Western construct that did not exist prior to the European Enlightenment. This analysis argues that scholars have neglected data that refutes this conclusion. Perhaps informed by a Eurocentric bias, scholars have neglected premodern Muslim demarcations of religion or, in other instances, reduced the matter to a debate …
The Judeo‐Islamic God
This article discusses the concept of the Judeo‐Islamic God as a substantive and defensible alternative to the problematic concept of the “Judeo‐Christian God” in popular, political, and academic Western discourses. It argues that the transcendent monotheistic deity of Islam, Allāh, is a direct continuation of the composite deity of Rabbinic Judaism, El‐Yahweh. By discussing the presence of Jews in ancient Arabia, this article analyzes how Jewish…
Sociology (10 works) · Islam (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · Terrorism (4 works)