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AbstractCan International Relations (IR) as it is taught in the Arab world be said to be an "American social science" or is it taught differently in different places? The forum addresses this question through an exploration of what and how scholars at Arab universities are teaching IR and how institutional, historical, and linguistic, as well as political and individual factors shape classroom dynamics in the Arab world. This forum attempts to bring the classroom into the Global/Post-Western debate by showing how IR can be taught differently in different places with a focus on a region under-represented in IR debates: the Arab world. The essays, exhibiting diversity in pedagogical strategies and theoretical perspectives, provide a window into how the "international" is perceived and taught locally by teachers and students in various Arab contexts. While the influence from the American "core" of the discipline is obvious, the forum documents how the theoretical and conceptual foundations of IR based on Western perspectives and history do not travel intact. The essays collectively provide evidence of different kinds of IRs not just across but also within regions and show that studying pedagogy can become a way to study how disciplinary IR varies contextually.

1. Introduction: Salafism after the Arab Awakening / Francesco Cavatorta and Fabio Merone. - 2. Revisiting Wiktorowicz: Categorising and Defining the Branches of Salafism / Joas Wagemakers. - 3. Unpacking the Sacred Canopy: Egypt's Salafis between Religion and Politics / Khalil al-Anani. - 4. Lebanon's Salafis: Opportunities and constraints in a divided state / Adham Saouli. - 5. Islamist dilemmas in post-Arab Spring Saudi Arabia / Stephane Lacroix. - 6. Salafi Movements and the Political Process in Morocco / Mohammed Masbah. - 7. The Establishment and Positioning of al-Rashad - a Case Study of Political Salafism in Yemen / Judit Kuschnitzki. - 8. The Dual Effect of the Arab Spring on Salafi Integration: Political Salafism in Jordan / Joas Wagemakers. - 9. Salafi Jihadism and the Syrian civil war: national and international repercussions / Thomas Pierret. - 10. The multi-faceted dimensions of Tunisian Salafism / Stefano Torelli. - 11. Kuwaiti Salafism after the Arab uprisings / Zoltan Pall. - 12. Gender Activism in Salafism: A Case Study of Salafi Women in Tunis / Iris Kolman. - 13. Quietist Salafis, the Arab Spring and the politicization process / Laurent Bonnefoy. - 14. Conclusion / Roel Meijer

"More than three years after the beginning of the wave of Arab uprisings, an understanding of the role of intellectuals in political change across the region has never been more important. This timely volume on Intellectuals in the Modern Middle East combines geographical and chronological breadth and draws on a diverse range of approaches including intellectual history, political science, art history, social policy and political philosophy. Together, the chapters provide a window into the diversity in intellectual trends across the Middle East from the early decades of the 20th century until the present day. While they do not, and cannot, provide a complete, or even representative, picture of intellectual dynamics in the modern Middle East, they collectively address a range of analytical and normative issues that bear on the role of the intellectual in contemporary Middle Eastern politics and society. - This book was published as a special issue of the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies." (Publisher's description)