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Andrew Hammond

Andrew Hammond currently teaches Late Ottoman and Turkish history at Oxford university. He is the author of The Islamic Utopia: The Illusion of Reform in Saudi Arabia, Popular Culture in North Africa and the Middle East, and the forthcoming “Salafi publishing and contestation over orthodoxy and leadership in Sunni Islam,” in Wahhabism and the World, ed. Peter Mandaville (Oxford University Press, 2022).

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Reordering Saudi Religion: MBS is Defanging Wahhabism, not Dethroning it

By Andrew Hammond // September 20, 2021

The Saudi reforms launched by Mohammed bin Salman (often referred to in media as MBS) have been underpinned by a fundamental ideological claim: that Saudi Arabia has turned the page on Wahhabi Islam, which having…

The Egyptian Uprising through the Lens of the Muslim Brotherhood

By Andrew Hammond // January 28, 2021January 29, 2021

The Egyptian Uprising through the Lens of the Muslim Brotherhood: A New History of the Movement Assesses Its Failure in Government and the Fallout under Sisi In his introduction to the 1993 edition of Richard…