Oxford Political Thought – the Oxford seminar series where guest speakers working on Islam, politics, and history discuss their cutting-edge research on political thought.

This week, the first of our seminars for this academic year, our guest speaker Valerie Hoffman (University of Illinois), ‘Charges of Radicalism: Ibāḍī–Wahhābī Polemics and Articulations of Identity.’

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As the live audience, you can ask a question anytime during the webinar by typing in the chat or Q&A dialogue box within the ZOOM platform.

Our series’ convenors are Professor Faisal Devji (Faculty of History) and Dr Usaama al-Azami (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) at the University of Oxford.

Our format – guests present for 20 minutes, one after the other and the Q&A discussion follows for around 45 minutes.

We are grateful to our guests for giving us permission to record the live webinars – our Programme Manager edits the recordings and the edited production becomes a podcast episode in our podcast series. You can find the podcast series at www.sant.ox.ac.uk/research-centres/contemporary-islamic-studies/oxford-political-thought or search for us on YouTube, Oxford Middle East Centre.