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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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?...

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-...

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

@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...

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University SIGN THE PETITION chng.it/gBGhv9RyLr

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

Consider submitting chapters for this exciting project 👇

My humble input to the conversation "When bodies are regulated based on reproductive capacity – whether excluding trans women from women's spaces or pressuring cisgender women to reproduce – we witness the same logic of control at work." @thebartlettucl.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/new...

Open Access UCL Research: Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’ discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

Very happy to announce that the final conference of The Global War Against the Rat project, on the topic of Zoonosis as a Historical & Anthropological Question, will be taking place on June 16-17 (in-person only) - programme link here: wwrat.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/zoonosis-as-...

Admittedly, we have been working quite hard for over four years. We thought you may want to see all of our publications piled up together www.takhayyulproject.com/publications @erc.europa.eu @ucl.ac.uk @thebartlettucl.bsky.social @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social @meznaqato.bsky.social

++but actively support, desire, maintain, and reproduce as well as enjoy and even celebrate these regimes at the expense of others.

We are particularly interested in explorations of subjects and social groups who not only remain comfortable within systems of inequality, destruction, violence, and crisis in diverse forms, ++

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...