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'''Suha Taji-Farouki''' is a specialist in modern [[Islamic]] thought.
==Biography==
Taji-Farouki completed a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] in Classical Arabic and Islamic Studies with Persian at [[Durham University]] in 1987.<ref>{{cite journal |title=B.A. |journal=University of Durham Congregation (1 July 3:20pm) |date=1987 |page=3 |publisher=Durham University |location=Durham}}</ref> She obtained her PhD in Islamic Studies and Middle Eastern Politics from the [[University of Exeter]] in 1993.
She is Lecturer in Modern Islam at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, and a research associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London.<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr. Suha Taji-Farouki |url=https://www.iis.ac.uk/people/dr-suha-taji-farouki |website=The Institute of Ismaili Studies |access-date=30 January 2021}}</ref>
==Hizb al-Tahrir==
Taji-Farouki's 1996 work ''A Fundamental Quest: Hizb al-Tahrir and the Search for the Islamic Caliphate'' is the "only in-depth academic research ever conducted on the movement".<ref>Jean Francois-Mayer, Hizb ut-Tahrir, the next Al-Qaida, Really? p. 9, PSIO, Geneva 2004</ref> Taji-Farouki was given exclusive access to an extensive range of internal [[Hizb al-Tahrir]] material and her work comprehensively documents the emergence, history, ideology, strategy and structure of the movement. Taji-Farouki is the only [[Western culture|Western]] academic to have interviewed [[Ata Khalil Abu-Rashta]], the current leader of [[Hizb al-Tahrir]].
==Selected bibliography==
* [https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1856400395 ''A Fundamental Quest: Hizb al-Tahrir and the Search for the Islamic Caliphate'' (1996)]
* ''Muslim Identity and the Balkan State'' (co-edited, 1997)
* ''Muslim-Jewish Encounters: Intellectual Traditions and Modern Politics'' (co-edited, 1998)
* [http://www.iis.ac.uk/view_article.asp?ContentID=104963 ''Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century'' (co-edited, 2004)]
* [http://www.iis.ac.uk/ContentLink.asp?type=cont.currentlang&id=103502 ''Modern Muslim Intellectuals and the Qur'an''] (edited, 2004)
* ''Ibn 'Arabi, A Prayer for Spiritual Elevation and Protection, al-Dawr al-a'la (Hizb al-wiqaya), Study, translation, transliteration and Arabic text'' (2006)
* ''Beshara and Ibn ‘Arabi: A Movement of Sufi Spirituality in the Modern World'' (2007)
==See also==
*[[Islamism]]
*[[Sufism]]
*[[Hizb al-Tahrir]]
*[[Ibn Arabi]]
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