Abbas, Tahir

Fatih University, Istanbul

Turkey

Tahir Abbas is Professor of Sociology at Fatih University in Istanbul. He has published ten books, including two monographs; one on the education of British South Asians and the other on Islamic political radicalism in Britain. He has published in numerous sociology, education, Islamic studies and political science journals and edited collections. He has also written for The Guardian, Times Higher Education, NZZ, Prospect, openDemocracy and Fair Observer. He has three forthcoming books, the co-edited Political Muslims with Syracuse University Press, Beyond Islamophobia with Oxford University Press/Hurst, and Contemporary Turkey with Oxford University Press.