Sertaç Sehlikoglu, Doç Dr
@sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social
Social Anthropologist
Associate Professor @ucl.ac.uk
PI of @takhayyul.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
Editor-in-Chief Contemporary Islam
Academic Consultant
Associate Professor @ucl.ac.uk
PI of @takhayyul.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
Editor-in-Chief Contemporary Islam
Academic Consultant
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
@springernature.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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
@springernature.com
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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!
September 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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!
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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
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
@erc.europa.eu
@ucldiscovery.bsky.social
@thebartlettucl.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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
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...
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…
sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com
July 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I just wrote this 'spur of the moment.'
sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/the-hidden-t...
sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/the-hidden-t...
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Güzel olmuş. Elinize sağlık!
July 9, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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
July 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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...
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…
sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com
July 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
My reflections continue: "The Workplace Scapegoat: When Different Means Target"
sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/the-workplac...
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?...
youtu.be/w8NcNeZDeIw?...
Hashemi on Women in Sports
YouTube video by Sertaç Sehlikoglu
youtu.be
June 24, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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?...
youtu.be/w8NcNeZDeIw?...
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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
@erc.europa.eu @ucl.ac.uk @thebartlettucl.bsky.social @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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
@erc.europa.eu @ucl.ac.uk @thebartlettucl.bsky.social @sertacsehlikoglu.bsky.social
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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
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
https://link.springer.com/article/10.100…
June 13, 2025 at 3:48 AM
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
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-...
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…
sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com
June 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"We All Need an Autistic Nudge: Why the World Needs Neurodivergent Clarity for Justice"
sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/we-all-need-...
sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com/we-all-need-...
This will be part of the book project
"Is Critique Islamic?"
So any suggestions are more than welcome!
"Is Critique Islamic?"
So any suggestions are more than welcome!
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
"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
open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu
June 11, 2025 at 12:04 PM
This will be part of the book project
"Is Critique Islamic?"
So any suggestions are more than welcome!
"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
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
June 9, 2025 at 2:09 PM
@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
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
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Open Access UCL Research: Imaginative landscapes of Islamist politics: An introduction to takhayyul discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
Imaginative landscapes of Islamist politics: An introduction to takhayyul
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UCL Discovery
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April 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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...
"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
sertacsehlikoglu.medium.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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...
"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...
Sign the Petition
End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
chng.it
May 26, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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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...
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...
doi.org
May 23, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Inheritance without the heritage: fig trees and the ecological effects of imaginative attachments to fetih (conquest)
doi.org/10.1080/1352...
doi.org/10.1080/1352...
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Consider submitting chapters for this exciting project 👇
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...
(ed w/) @erolsaglam.bsky.social
(We're keen on opening the editorship for invested candidates.)
www.academia.edu/129244974/Cf...
Cf Chapters Dark Agency latest version
Cf Chapters Dark Agency latest version
www.academia.edu
May 22, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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...
"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...
Opinion: Gender against prosperity
Sertaç Sehlikoglu responds to the Supreme Court ruling that the term "woman" in the Equality Act refers exclusively to biological women and explains why the prosperity of those affected is at risk.
www.ucl.ac.uk
May 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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...
"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...
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Open Access UCL Research: Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’ discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’
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UCL Discovery
UCL Discovery is UCL's open access repository, showcasing and providing access to UCL research outputs from all UCL disciplines.
discovery.ucl.ac.uk
February 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Open Access UCL Research: Introduction to ‘Islamic politics and the imaginative: intangibility and critique’ discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
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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-...
May 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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-...