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This photograph shows a Dassault Rafale aircraft parked on the tarmac of the French Air and Space Force Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Airbase in Saint-Sauveur, France, on March 18, 2025. (Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images)
At A Glance
A publication analyzing the global Islamist movement and the Muslim search for religious and political alternatives to political Islam.
Director
Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy and the Future of the Muslim World
hillel@hudson.org
Founded in 2005, Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, aims to promote an analytical discussion of the global Islamist movement and the rival streams within it, as well the Muslim search for religious and political alternatives to political Islam.
The editors of Current Trends will accept and review unsolicited manuscripts from authors around the world. In general, we are looking for essays that are 4,500 to 5,500 words in length, that draw from primary resources, and that provide new insights into the varieties of Islamism worldwide.
Current Trends in Islamist Ideology, Volume 35
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A member of the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service raises the victory gesture as others hold upside-down the black flag of the Islamic State in Mosul, Iraq, on June 30, 2017. (Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty Images)
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Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei leads Friday prayer in Tehran, Iran, on October 4, 2024. (Iranian Leader Press Office/Handout/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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Muslim devotees offer Eid al-Fitr prayers in the old quarters of New Delhi on April 11, 2024. (Money Sharma/AFP via Getty Images)
