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Faculty Member, Islamic & Middle Eastern Studies
Lecturer in Contemporary Islam
Thesis Title: Sunni Muslim Scholars in Contemporary Syria : Making Tradition Relevant - Finding a Place in an Authoritarian System
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About
Thomas Pierret earned his Ph.D. in Political and Social Sciences at Sciences Po Paris and the Catholic University of Louvain (2009), funded by the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (Belgium).He received his License in Modern History from the University of Liège (2001), his MA in International Politics from the Free University of Brussels (2002), and his MA in Comparative Politics (Muslim world) from Sciences Po Paris (2003). He attended a year-long intensive advanced Arabic language course at the French Institute of Damascus (2003-4).
In 2010, he was a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University, Department of Near Eastern Studies. In 2011, he was a visiting fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin.
His research interests include Middle Eastern politics, with a particular focus on Syria, and the politics of modern Islam: religious authorities (in particular the ulema), social and political activism, state religious policies, economic dimensions, education, media, sectarianism, transnationalism, ideology.
Supervision
Dr. Thomas Pierret is particularly interested in supervising postgraduate research on aspects of the following:
Sociology and politics of Islam in modern societies
Society and politics of the modern Middle East
Political Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
Middle East - Syria - Islam and politics - Religious authority - Muslim Scholars - Sufi brotherhoods - Salafism - Reformism - Islamic Charities - Authoritarianism
Languages: French - English - Arabic
