Eyre, Dr. Guy

Position:

Senior Researcher

Email:

guyrpeyre [at] googlemail.com

Weblink:

https://twitter.com/GuyEyre

Areas of Research:

Religious politics, Islamist transnationalism, contested governance, political thought

Regional Focus:

Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Education:

2016-2021	PhD, Prof. Matt Nelson and Prof. Charles Tripp, Politics and International Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, UK
2014-2015	MA Near and & Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK (full scholarship)
2013-2014	MA Legal and Political Theory, University College London, UK
2008-2011	BA Philosophy, Bristol University, UK

Professional Experience / Applied Research:

Since 2022	Arnold Bergstraesser Institute (ABI), Post-Doctoral Fellow
Since 2022	Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM), Fellow
Since 2022	Centre Jacques-Berque, Post-Doctoral Associate Fellow
2021-2022	King’s College London, Department of Political Economy, Lecturer
2021-2022	SOAS, University of London, Department of Politics and International Studies, Teaching Fellow

Selected Publications and Working Papers

‘The Moroccan ‘Salafism since the Arab Spring', in Salafi Social and Political Movements: National and Transnational Contexts’, edited by Prof. Masooda Bano at Oxford University (Edinburgh University Press, September 2021)

‘‘Quietist’ Salafism and politics in Morocco and Libya’, co-written with Inga Trauthig (KCL), Sharq Forum (2021)

‘Of friends and foes: Schmitt, shibboleths, and Islamic (anti-)politics in Morocco’, working paper.

‘Salafi-Islamist contestation and the state in the MENA’, working paper.

Freelance Academic Staff

Publications

Zeitschriftenartikel (Wiss.)

‘Quietist’ Salafis after the ‘Arab revolts’ in Algeria and...

Eyre, Dr. Guy

Mediterranean Politics

10.1080/13629395.2023.2272474

Revolutionary movements, like Salafi-jihadis, often capture public attention. However, as scholars of Salafism have long argued, quietist Salafis are the largest sub-group within, and in many ways the true heart of, Salafism in the southern Mediterranean and beyond. This article has two aims. First, it provides scholarship on Salafi groups in Libya and Algeria not tied to jihadi milieus.

2023