Abaas Chaudhry

Historically informed comparative/global political theory. DPhil @pembrokeoxford.

[Abaas Chaudhry @abaaschaudhry]

"historians of political thought now should be consumers of the histories of political thought produced by those who can speak at least the main languages with a long, dense textual tradition...They certainly should include in their ranks historians of Chinese & Islamic PT."

[Abaas Chaudhry @abaaschaudhry]

John Dunn: Ask a Political Scientist: A Conversation with John Dunn on the Historical Study of Political Thinking
https://t.co/rciEf7gKnb

[Abaas Chaudhry @abaaschaudhry]

@emdiefisher @OUPAcademic Congratulations!

[Muhammad Hozien @hozien]

Ibn Khaldun’s muqadima manuscript with his handwriting on the title pages in the box at the top left.

[Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين @loubnaelamine]

Our Critical Exchange on "What is Political Theory Today" is now out in Contemporary Political Theory. It features a lead article by Peter Steinberger and responses by Jeffrey Church, Shterna Friedman, Simone Chambers, and me. https://t.co/kyprffLwHF

[Anton Jäger @AntonJaegermm]

For @nytopinion I wrote about the European fixation on immigration and what it both hides and reveals

https://t.co/Jp2CfD2s3m

[Abaas Chaudhry @abaaschaudhry]

Professor John Dunn: Reflections on his Intellectual Journey https://t.co/9FBkjY27XI

[Abaas Chaudhry @abaaschaudhry]

@daniel_dsj2110 The term reminds me of David Cameron.
https://t.co/lMznDgAdPh

[Loubna El Amine لبنى الأمين @loubnaelamine]

I am thrilled to be starting as Associate Editor of Political Theory at Perspectives on Politics together with Steven Klein. I admire the broad-minded work that PoP publishes and the vision of its two amazing editors, Anna Arjona and Wendy Pearlman. Do send us your manuscripts!

[Oxford Faculty of Theology & Religion @OU_TheoReligion]

News || Professor Frank Griffel delivers inaugural lecture on philosophy in Islam’s post-classical period

Read the news here:https://t.co/fIAWv47fhA

[Abaas Chaudhry @abaaschaudhry]

When living in USA & UAE, I was confronted by the ubiquity of flags, unlike my own experience in England. My sense was that identity in England had a natural quality about it that modern nationalistic forms & modes cannot capture. But, maybe, times change? https://t.co/OTDXaarF87

[Oxford Faculty of Theology & Religion @OU_TheoReligion]

🔔 Event Alert || Inaugural Lecture by Professor Frank Griffel: ‘Double Truth and Multiple Rationalisms: Philosophy in Islam’s Post-Classical Period.’

Registration is free.

Click here to book your place: https://t.co/jX4FsMyOTV

[Rosario López @rosariolopez.bsky.social @Rosario_L0pez]

"Everyone's life is a chapter of accidents, and mine to a more flamboyant degree than is either likely or at all prepossessing in anyone who has spent their entire adult life trying to teach in a great university": Dunn's new autobiographical essay now (open access) in @Global_IH

[Abaas Chaudhry @abaaschaudhry]

This Pope is going to be very important for the world's two largest faiths. 'A Common Word' 2.0 is not a bad idea.

[Catholic News Service @CatholicNewsSvc]

"Peace be with you. Assalamu alaikum." Pope Leo XIV's first words to the people of Algeria, delivered at the Maqam Echahid (Martyrs' Memorial) in Algiers.

[Abaas Chaudhry @abaaschaudhry]

"Don’t worry about Muslims in Trafalgar Square. Ask instead why your local church is empty or shut, and what you might do about it."

(The title feels chosen more for its clickbait appeal than as an accurate reflection of what Hitchens is actually saying). https://t.co/ysxxF3KdIs

[Abaas Chaudhry @abaaschaudhry]

Religious nationalisms, Islamic/Christian/Jewish/Hindu/Buddhist etc., wherever they proliferate in the world are all remarkably similar. Britain finally gets a taste.

[Tim Howles @AimeTim]

Is Britain ready for US-style political religion?

https://t.co/zSnTcErOPd

[Global Intellectual History @Global_IH]

Now online, open access: "Can Democracy be Rehabilitated?" by John Dunn (@Cambridge_Uni): "[It] will be a heroic challenge... The stakes in meeting it are the possibility of democracy itself, a citizenry that has recovered the capacity to keep itself free" https://t.co/ekGzEA0IH7

[New College, Oxford @NewCollegeOx]

We are extremely grateful to Old Member Farouk Toukan (Mx) for the generous gift of a copy of The Encyclopaedia of Islam which the College did not previously possess. In the words of our Fellow for Arabic, Christian Sahner, “these volumes are treasures”

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

Academic trends in US since the end of the Cold War
1. 1990s: Postmodernism/PC
2. 2001-2007: Islam, turn to religion
3. 2008-2016: Neoliberalism
4. 2016–2025: Populism, Identity Politics, Fascism Debate
2026— Civilizationism

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

The philosophical questions you were asked to win a Fellowship at at Trinity College Cambridge 160 years ago. Already by Qn 2 you have to put your cards on the table!