Bernard Haykel

Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

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Professor of near eastern studies at Princeton University and author of Revival and Reform in Islam: The Legacy of Muhammad Al-Shawkani and a forthcoming book on Wahabism, the Saudi religious movement; former associate professor of Islamic studies at New York University; 2005 Carnegie Scholar

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Authorities now agree that Friday's assault on Paris was directed by ISIS in Syria, and it's widely expected that ISIS will strike again.

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If you want to understand ISIS and violent Muslim extremists… read their poetry.  That’s according to Robyn Creswell, poetry editor of the Paris Review, and Bernard Haykel, professor…

Reading the Poems of ISIS

If you want to understand ISIS and violent Muslim extremists… read their poetry.  That’s according to Robyn Creswell, poetry editor of the Paris Review, and Bernard Haykel, professor…

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