Shadi Hamid
{{short description|American writer}}
Shadi Hamid (born 1983) is an American author and political scientist, who is currently a columnist at the Washington Post.{{cite web |title=Shadi Hamid - The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/shadi-hamid/}} From 2023 to 2024, he was a member of the Editorial Board of the Post. Previously, he was a longtime senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing writer at the Atlantic.{{Cite web|url=https://www.brookings.edu/experts/shadi-hamid/|title=Shadi Hamid|date=2016-06-01|website=Brookings|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-06}} He also holds the position of research professor of Islamic studies at Fuller Seminary. This appointment is the first time a Muslim scholar has been hired in the school's history.{{cite web |title=Fuller Seminary Receives Grant for Muslim-Christian Research |url=https://www.fuller.edu/posts/fuller-seminary-receives-grant-for-muslim-christian-research/ |website=Fuller |date=24 January 2022 |publisher=Fuller Theological Seminary |access-date=23 June 2022}} He has been called a "prominent thinker on religion and politics" in the New York Times{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/23/opinion/islam-religion.html|title=Opinion {{!}} A New Secularism Is Appearing in Islam|last=Akyol|first=Mustafa|date=2019-12-23|work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-01-07|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} and was named as one of "The world's top 50 thinkers" in 2019 by Prospect Magazine.{{Cite web|url=https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/prospect-worlds-top-50-thinkers-2019|title=The world's top 50 thinkers 2019|last=Team|first=Prospect|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-07}} He is known for coining the phrase "Islamic exceptionalism" to describe Islam's resistance to secularization and outsized role in public life. The phrase has come under some criticism.{{cite web |last1=Mneimneh |first1=Hassan |title=The Dangerous Stipulation of Islamic Exceptionalism |url=https://www.mei.edu/publications/dangerous-stipulation-islamic-exceptionalism |website=Middle East Institute |language=en}}{{cite web |last1=Douthat |first1=Ross |title=Opinion {{!}} The Meaning of a Martyrdom |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/07/opinion/sunday/the-meaning-of-a-martyrdom.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=13 January 2020 |date=6 August 2016}}
Early life and education
Hamid was born in Pennsylvania to a Egyptian family.{{Cite web|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/two-state-solution-wont-solve-mideast-crisis-says-brookings-expert/|title=The West fundamentally misunderstands the ethos of the 'caliphate,' writes Muslim author|first=JP O’|last=Malley|website=Times of Israel}}{{Cite web|url=https://providencemag.com/2020/06/shadi-hamid-on-church-of-woke/,%20https://providencemag.com/2020/06/shadi-hamid-on-church-of-woke/|title=Shadi Hamid on "Church of Woke" - Providence|date=June 5, 2020|website=Providence Magazine}} A Marshall Scholar,{{cite news |last1=Nixon |first1=D. Pierce |title=Pair Named Marshall Fellows |url=https://thehoya.com/pair-named-marshall-fellows/ |access-date=18 May 2021 |work=The Hoya |date=November 22, 2005}} Hamid completed his doctoral degree in politics at Oxford University in 2010. His dissertation was titled Democrats without Democracy: the Unlikely Moderation of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Jordan.{{cite thesis |url=http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/89vilt/oxfaleph017352828 |title=Democrats without Democracy: the Unlikely Moderation of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Jordan |last=Hamid |first=Shadi |year=2009 |type=PhD thesis |publisher=St. Antony's College (University of Oxford) |access-date=April 24, 2020}} Hamid received his B.S. and M.A. from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.
Hamid was a Hewlett Fellow at the Stanford University Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and a Fulbright Fellow in Jordan, researching Islamist participation in the democratic process, and a research fellow at the American Center for Oriental Research in Amman, where he conducted research on the relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Jordanian government.{{Cite web|url=https://cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu/people/Shadi_Hamid|title=FSI {{!}} CDDRL - Shadi Hamid|website=cddrl.fsi.stanford.edu|access-date=2020-01-06}}
Books
- {{cite book|title=Militants, Criminals and Warlords: The Challenge of Local Governance in an Age of Disorder|first1=Vanda|last1=Felbab-Brown|author1-link=Vanda Felbab-Brown|first2=Harold|last2=Trinkunas|first3=Shadi|last3=Hamid|location=Washington, DC|publisher=Brookings Institution Press|year=2018|isbn=978-0-8157-3189-4}}Review of Militants, Criminals and Warlords
- {{cite journal|last=Sinai|first=Joshua|date=June 2018|issue=3|journal=Perspectives on Terrorism|jstor=26453159|pages=103–104|title=none|volume=12}}
- {{cite journal|last=Kiba|first=Saya|date=February 2020|doi=10.1080/24761028.2020.1726598|journal=Journal of Contemporary East Asia Studies|pages=86–88|title=none|volume=9|s2cid=213470777|doi-access=free}}
- {{cite book | editor1-last=Hamid | editor1-first=Shadi |editor2-last=McCants|editor2-first=William |editor2-link=Will McCants | title=Rethinking political Islam | publisher=Oxford University Press | location=New York, NY, United States of America | year=2017 | isbn=978-0-19-064919-7 | oclc=960276884}}{{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-19-064920-3|title=Rethinking Political Islam (review)|work=Publishers Weekly|access-date=April 24, 2020}}
- {{cite book | last=Hamid | first=Shadi | title=Islamic Exceptionalism: How the struggle over Islam is reshaping the world | publisher=St. Martin's Press | location=New York, NY | year=2016 | isbn=978-1-250-06101-0 | oclc=933446666}}Reviews of Islamic Exceptionalism
- {{cite magazine|url=https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2016/09/26/shadi-hamid-islamic-exceptionalism/|magazine=National Review|title=Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle over Islam Is Reshaping the World, by Shadi Hamid|last=Berlinski|first=Claire|date=September 26, 2016|access-date=April 24, 2020}}
- {{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2016/06/17/yes-there-is-something-going-on-with-muslims-but-its-not-what-donald-trump-suggests/|title=Yes, there is something 'going on' with Muslims. But it's not what Donald Trump suggests. (Review)|last=Lozada|first=Carlos|newspaper=Washington Post|date=June 17, 2016|access-date=April 24, 2020}}
- {{cite journal|title=Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World by Shadi Hamid (review)|last=Quamar|first=Md. Muddassir|journal=Strategic Analysis|volume=41|issue=6|pages=599–601|doi=10.1080/09700161.2017.1377898|s2cid=158572545}}
- {{cite journal|last=Ruthven|first=Malise|date=September–October 2016|issue=5|journal=Foreign Affairs|jstor=43946965|pages=142–148|title=Mosque and State: The Future of Political Islam|volume=95}}
- {{cite book | last=Hamid | first=Shadi | title=Temptations of Power: Islamists and illiberal democracy in a new Middle East | publisher=Oxford University Press, USA | location=New York | year=2014 | isbn=978-0-19-931405-8 | oclc=870994390 }}Reviews of Temptations of Power
- {{cite magazine|url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/capsule-review/2014-08-04/temptations-power-islamists-and-illiberal-democracy-new-middle?fa_anthology=1113990|title=Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East|magazine=Foreign Affairs|last=Waterbury|first=John|date=2014|access-date=April 24, 2020|jstor=24483351}}
- {{cite news|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-temptations-of-power-by-shadi-hamid-1397676765|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|title=Book Review: 'Temptations of Power' by Shadi Hamid|last=Traub|first=James|date=April 16, 2014|access-date=April 24, 2020}}
- {{cite journal | last=Johnston | first=David L. | title=Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East, written by Shadi Hamid (review) | journal=Sociology of Islam | publisher=Brill | volume=4 | issue=3 | date=July 5, 2016 | issn=2213-140X | doi=10.1163/22131418-00403007 | pages=303–306}}
- {{cite journal|last=Brown|first=Nathan J.|date=Summer 2015|issue=3|journal=Middle East Journal|jstor=43698263|pages=463–467|title=A Struggle for Power: Islamism and Democracy|volume=69}}
- {{Cite book |last=Hamid |first=Shadi |title=The problem of democracy: America, the Middle East, and the rise and fall of an idea |date=2023 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-757946-6}}
''Wisdom of Crowds'' (podcast)
The Wisdom of Crowds podcast started in 2019, with Hamid as a co-host.{{Cite web |last= |first= |title=About - Wisdom of Crowds |url=https://wisdomofcrowds.live/about |access-date=2024-08-04 |website=wisdomofcrowds.live |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Freedland |first=Jonathan |last2=Hamid |first2=Shadi |last3=Stephens |first3=Danielle |last4=Ebtehaj |first4=Maz |last5=Kacoutié |first5=Axel |date=2022-03-11 |title=Is Putin proving the need for Western power? Politics Weekly America – podcast |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/audio/2022/mar/11/is-putin-proving-the-need-for-western-power-politics-weekly-america-podcast |access-date=2024-08-04 |work=the Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}
Reception
Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam is Reshaping the World was shortlisted for the 2017 Lionel Gelber Prize.{{cite web|url=https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/gelber/book/islamic-exceptionalism-how-the-struggle-over-islam-is-reshaping-the-world/|publisher=University of Toronto|work=Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy|title=Islamic Exceptionalism: How the Struggle Over Islam Is Reshaping the World|date=2017|access-date=April 24, 2020}} Temptations of Power: Islamists and Illiberal Democracy in a New Middle East was named a Foreign Affairs "Best Book of 2014."{{cite news |title=Best International Relations Books of 2014 |url=https://www.foreignaffairs.com/anthologies/2014-12-24/best-international-relations-books-2014 |website=Foreign Affairs |date=16 April 2015 |access-date=21 January 2020}}
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