Middle East Studies Lecture Series

The so-called New Atheists have had a unique and ostensibly significant impact on Western (and to some extent non-Western) intellectual discourse. Notwithstanding their numerous detractors, their views on Islam in particular have shaped the ways that many, typically outside Islamic studies, imagine the world’s second largest religion. In this presentation, Mohammad Hassan Khalil will scrutinize some especially influential New Atheist claims regarding Islam, jihad, and violent radicalism.