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Benjamin Mayer is a trade analyst at Cambridge Negotiation Strategies, where he focuses on Middle Eastern businesses. He graduated from Boston College in 2012 with a B.A. in history and philosophy. His senior thesis focused on how secular political philosophy influences present-day politics in Iran and Turkey.
Collection Spotlight: Modern Islamic Political Thought, by Hamid Enayat, 1982
In Modern Islamic Political Thought, Hamid Enayat discusses the major currents in twentieth-century Islamic political thought. Although the work is broad in scope, at its core is the assertion that the abolition of the Caliphate was “perhaps [the] most important controversy in twentieth-century Sunni political thought.” To prove this assertion, Enayat traces Islamic political thought from the abolition of the Caliphate to the rise of Islamic fundamentalism.
