Thrilled to share the first look at Poetics and Politics of Islamic Imaginaries! 🎉 What animates Islamic politics? Coming soon from @uclpress.bsky.social 🔗 uclpress.co.uk/book/poetics-and-politics-of-islamic-imaginaries/ @takhayyul.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @uclpress.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

Poetics and Politics of Islamic Imaginaries

Poetics and Politics of Islamic Imaginaries shows how narratives of culture, masculinist restoration and revolutionary spirit drive, connect and reinvent different forms of politics in Muslim majority...

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You think? "Open University scholars call for more self-governance on free speech issues, warning conflicts often ‘improperly’ dealt with" www.timeshighereducation.com/news/academi...

Academics ‘need clarity’ on navigating disagreements

Open University scholars call for more self-governance on free speech issues, warning conflicts often ‘improperly’ dealt with

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Thrilled to launch Emergent Issues in Muslim Life — a new section in Contemporary Islam for short, rigorous scholarly responses to what is happening right now in Muslim communities worldwide. Submission: link.springer.com/collections/fe… @SpringerNature

MCB’s British Muslims in Numbers report reveals progress in employment, health & education while highlighting ongoing challenges. Using census data, it challenges misconceptions and showcases the active role British Muslims play in society. 🔗 https://loom.ly/1VkbDG0

Stell dir vor, du musst als Richterin tiefen Ausschnitt tagen. Unangenehm? Auch Kopftücher sind nicht einfach religiöses Symbol. Sie sind Alltagskultur und bedeutsam für die eigenen Grenzen und Intimität. Das veranschaulicht anthropologische Forschung, etwa von @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social 1/5

I just published Why I Advise My Neurodivergent Mentees Not to Disclose Their Diagnosis to their Employers medium.com/p/why-i-advi...

Why I Advise My Neurodivergent Mentees Not to Disclose Their Diagnosis to their Employers

There is a piece of advice I give regularly to some of the brightest scholars I have ever mentored. It breaks my heart a little bit, every…

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What connects the UK's 2025 Equality Act ruling, US anti-trans legislation & pronatalist policies in Turkey and Russia? "Cis Hell" — our new concept for transnational regimes of bodily control. Out today in Journal of Gender Studies w/ @mustafaozbilgin doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2026.2647417

Such an exciting product of my fieldwork in the Balkans. Although Turkish political narratives circulate widely in the Balkans, focusing on Ankara’s projection risks flattening the complex imaginative work undertaken by local Muslims themselves. @takhayyul.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @erc.europa.eu

UCL Discovery@ucldiscovery.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Open Access UCL Research: Imaginative encounters: Turkish neo-Ottomanist dreams in the Balkans and the Muslim minorities discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

I just signed off 2 acceptance letters for Contemporary Islam. Look out for really exciting papers on agnosticism amongst Muslims and on Zakat and Adaptive Orthopraxy. Both very rich with empirical data and theoretical analysis, expanding the debates on Canon & Islam @springernature.com

Thank you to the editors, @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social (our PI) and Merve Kayıkçı (affiliate fellow of the Project), and all of the authors (incl. @erolsaglam.bsky.social) who contributed to this issue and made for such insightful conversation!

The first paper of the Takhayyul Working Paper Series is out!! We're honoured to present Dr Nazan Üstündağ's "Imagining Freedom in the Kurdish Women Freedom’s Movement" 📑 discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10... @erc.europa.eu @ucldiscovery.bsky.social @thebartlettucl.bsky.social

I just wrote this 'spur of the moment.' sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/the-hidden-t...

The Hidden Trauma: Bureaucratic Battles’ Impact on the “Academic Outsiders”

In UK academia’s current crisis of mass redundancies and institutional upheaval, academics from disadvantaged backgrounds experience…

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Güzel olmuş. Elinize sağlık!

I am incredibly proud to share this deeply personal project with you — a story that has been growing in my heart for quite some time. “Fahri the Magic Boy” is my love letter to every child who experiences the world a little differently, +1/2

My reflections continue: "The Workplace Scapegoat: When Different Means Target" sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/the-workplac...

The Workplace Scapegoat: When Different Means Target

It was several years ago. I was working at a coffee shop in Norwich during the pandemic, and a group of co-workers sat just behind me. One…

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London art auction raises over £250,000 for Gaza medical aid

A charity art auction in London has raised over £250,000 for emergency medical aid in Gaza.

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I found myself listening to my interview with Faezeh Hashemi (former president of the Islamic Federation for Women's Sport) during the 2012 London Olympics. youtu.be/w8NcNeZDeIw?...

Hashemi on Women in Sports

YouTube video by Sertaç Sehlikoglu

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A really exciting opportunity to sit down with renowned #author and #psychologist #GunduzVassaf for our latest podcast episode. Take a listen! tinyurl.com/Spotify-Imag... @erc.europa.eu @ucl.ac.uk @thebartlettucl.bsky.social @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social

Congratulations!!

Dear Everyone, I am excited to announce my appointment as Editor-in-Chief of Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life! I am looking forward to working with incredible scholars globally! Here's my editorial note: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @springernature.com @ucl.ac.uk

"We All Need an Autistic Nudge: Why the World Needs Neurodivergent Clarity for Justice" sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/we-all-need-...

We All Need an Autistic Nudge: Why the World Needs Neurodivergent Clarity for Justice

In a world increasingly paralysed by performative activism and social conformity, we need what I call “an autistic nudge” — the kind of…

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This will be part of the book project "Is Critique Islamic?" So any suggestions are more than welcome!

Takhayyul Project@takhayyul.bsky.social · last yr.

A revised version of "Genealogy, critique, and decolonisation: Ibn Khaldun and moving beyond filling the gaps" by @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social is now OUT! open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/4-14 @erc.europa.eu @thebartlettucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk

@takhayyul.bsky.social is directing the discussions. The first four MOST-READ articles in History and Anthropology are from our special issue "Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique" HUGE CONGRATS!!! @tandfresearch.bsky.social @verenameyer.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

Open Access UCL Research: Imaginative landscapes of Islamist politics: An introduction to takhayyul discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

I found myself thinking about this: "Being unheard is a state. It is a cosmos that creates its own reality. A void filled with denial." ++ sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/a-brown-woma...

A Brown Woman is Never a Senior

or On Sara Ahmed’s Strangeness

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Sign the Petition

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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It Should Not Be Controversial to Plead for Gaza’s Children

Israel’s limits on aid have put the region at “critical risk of famine.” Help is within reach. But it’s not enough—and it’s arriving too slowly.

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Inheritance without the heritage: fig trees and the ecological effects of imaginative attachments to fetih (conquest) doi.org/10.1080/1352...

Inheritance without the heritage: fig trees and the ecological effects of imaginative attachments to fetih (conquest)

Turkey’s transformation from a multi-religious and multi-ethnic empire into a nation-state has caused the dismissal, transformation, replacement, denial and destruction of several unrecognised mate...

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Consider submitting chapters for this exciting project 👇

Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr@sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social · last yr.

Please consider joining us with our new and exciting open-access book project titled "The Dawn of the Dark Subject: Realms of Comfort and Privilege at Times of Crisis" (ed w/) @erolsaglam.bsky.social (We're keen on opening the editorship for invested candidates.) www.academia.edu/129244974/Cf...