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Henri Lauzière
Modern Middle East and North Africa, particularly Morocco; Islamic history
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Henri Lauzière (Ph.D. Georgetown University, 2008) is a postdoctoral fellow in the study of the Middle East since the First World War at the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, and will join Northwestern University as professor of modern Middle East history in 2009. His research interests focus on both modern Islamic intellectual history and the political history of the Arab world, including North Africa. His doctoral dissertation, which he completed during a stay at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in Qatar, examines the evolution of Salafism (al-salafiyya) and its epistemological underpinnings over the course of the twentieth century. More specifically, it traces a number of key historical steps and conjunctures that transformed Salafism from an Islamic modernist movement into a movement of religious purism, which nowadays is largely associated with Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia.
Prior to his graduate studies in Washington D.C., he received a Bachelor's degree in history from Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada, and a Master's from Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He has been a Davis fellow at the Department of History at Georgetown University in 2005-2006, and served as adjunct professor in 2007. He has served as contributor to the second edition of The Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa (2004) and has published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies.
Fields: Africa and the Middle East
Intellectual history
History of religion
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