Dr. Ihsan Yilmaz
Ihsan Yilmaz is Research Professor and Chair of Islamic Studies and Intercultural Dialogue at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation (ADI), Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia.
He has conducted research on nation-building; citizenship; ethnic-religious-political identities and their securitization (Middle East, Pakistan, Indonesia); minority-majority relations (Australia, Turkey, the UK, and the USA); socio-legal affairs, identities, belonging and political participation of Muslim minorities in the West (the UK, Australia, and the USA); Islam-state-society relations in the majority and minority contexts; global Islamic movements; political Islam in a comparative perspective; Turkish politics; authoritarianization; Turkish diasporas (the UK, Australia, the USA); transnationalism; intergroup contact (Australia); and politics of victimhood (Australia, Turkey).
Dr. Yilmaz was a professor of political science at Istanbul Fatih University (2008-2016). He was a lecturer in law, social sciences, and politics at SOAS, University of London (2001-2008) where he taught “Islamic Law and Society,” “Legal Systems of Asia and Africa,” and “Turkish Politics” at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Before SOAS, he was a fellow at the Center for Islamic Studies, University of Oxford (1999-2001) where he worked on Muslim political participation in the UK and unofficial Muslim laws of young Muslims in the West.
Latest by Ihsan Yilmaz
Commentaries
The Silence of the Khans: The pragmatism of Islamist populist Imran Khan and his mentor Erdogan in persecuting Muslim minorities June 26, 2021.
The Islamist Populism, Anti-Westernism and Civilizationism of Turkey’s Directorate of Religious Affairs May 19, 2021.
How Are Religious Emotions Instrumentalized in the Supply of and Demand for Populism? May 18, 2021.
Different ways in which religion and populism intersect within world’s great faiths May 8, 2021.
The Islamic Defenders Front: The Face of Indonesia’s Far-Right Islamism May 7, 2021.
Military and Populism: An Introduction April 26, 2021.
Transnational Islamist Populism between Pakistan and Turkey: The Case of Dirilis – Ertugrul April 15, 2021.
Articles
A Quest for Identity: The Case of Religious Populism in Pakistan April 26, 2021
Profiles
Erdogan’s Political Journey: From Victimised Muslim Democrat to Authoritarian, Islamist Populist February 14, 2021.
Imran Khan: From Cricket Batsman to Populist Captain Tabdeli of Pakistan February 10, 2021.
The AKP’s Authoritarian, Islamist Populism: Carving out a New Turkey February 5, 2021.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf: Pakistan’s Iconic Populist Movement February 3, 2021.