Author
Basheer M. Nafi
Basheer M Nafi is a senior research analyst at the Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, and previously taught history and Islamic Studies at Birbeck College, University of London. He has published extensively on Arab nationalism, modern Islam and the history of Salafism. His books in English include Islamic Thought in the Twentieth Century (co-editor, 2004), and Arabism, Islamism and the Palestine Question, 1908-1941: A Political History (1998).