Thanks. The alliance between populist, religious & nationalist forces is the main challenge to secularism today.

My article is part of a review symposium on @tariqmodood.bsky.social & T. Sealy's book "The New Governance of Religious Diversity" ( @politybooks.bsky.social) in Ethnicities journal.
Read the full symposium: journals.sagepub.com/page/etn/rev...

We talked extensively about @ahmetkuru.bsky.social 's 2019 book, Islam Authoritarianism & Underdevelopment (with many translation recently German Hindi & its ban in Malaysia) on the impediment of ulema state alliance to separation of church & state + its Sasanian roots. @cambridgeup.bsky.social

This is longer, English version of my analysis of books on Islam and the state (by @fivebooks.com): fivebooks.com/best-books/i...