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Stéphane Lacroix
Associate Professor
Center for International Studies (CERI)
Research Interest(s): The transformations of contemporary Islam; Salafism and Islamism; The religious policies of Arab states; The transformations of authoritarianism in the Arab world.
Discipline(s): Political Science
Subdiscipline(s): Political Sociology
Research Group(s): Nationalism, religion, identity and discrimination, State, political regimes, mobilisations
Geographical Area(s): Middle East
Country(ies): Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates
Language(s): English, French, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, German
Biography
Stéphane Lacroix is an associate professor of political science at Sciences Po, a senior researcher at Sciences Po’s Centre de Recherches Internationales (CERI) and the co-director of Sciences Po's Chair for the study of religion.
His work deals with religion and politics, with a focus on the Gulf and Egypt. He is the author of Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia (Harvard University Press, 2011), Saudi Arabia in Transition: Insights on Social, Political, Economic and Religious Change (Cambridge University Press, 2015, with B.Haykel and T. Hegghammer), Egypt's Revolutions: Politics, Religion, Social Movements (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016, with B. Rougier), and Revisiting the Arab Uprisings: The Politics of a Revolutionary Moment (Oxford University Press, 2018, with J.-P. Filiu).
Current Research
A study of the contemporary transformations of Islam, from a comparative perspective, with a focus on Salafism.
Projects
Teaching
• Les dynamiques du fait religieux dans le monde contemporain (Cours de formation commune, Master, Sciences Po)
• Islam and Politics in a Changing Middle East (Master, PSIA, Sciences Po)
• States and Social Transformation in the Arab World (Master, PSIA, Sciences Po)
• States and Societies in the Arab World (Collège universitaire, Campus de Menton, Sciences Po)
• Atelier de formation à la recherche sur le Moyen-Orient (Master de recherche en politique comparée, Sciences Po)
publications
Main publications
Le Crépuscule des Saints : histoire et politique du salafisme en Égypte. Paris : CNRS Éditions, 2024, 423 p.
Les politiques de lutte contre la radicalisation (co-dirigé avec Juliette Galonnier et Nadia Marzouki). Paris : Presses de Sciences Po, collection Enjeu Mondial, 2022, 188 pages.
Revisiting the Arab Uprisings: The Politics of a Revolutionary Moment (co-dirigé avec Jean-Pierre Filiu). Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press/Hurst, 2019, 288 pages.
« Le Maréchal et les cheikhs : les stratégies religieuses du régime et leurs complications dans l’Egypte de al-Sissi » (avec Ahmed Zaghloul Shalata), Critique Internationale, Paris, vol. 78, n°1, janvier-mars 2018 : 21-39.
« Shari‘a et révolution : émergence et mutations du salafisme révolutionnaire dans l’Egypte post-Moubarak » (avec Ahmed Zaghloul Shalata), Archives des Sciences Sociales des Religions, n°181, janvier-mars 2018 : 201-218.
L’Egypte en révolutions (co-dirigé avec Bernard Rougier). Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 2015, 324 p.
Saudi Arabia in Transition: Insights on Social, Political, Economic and Religious Change (co-dirigé avec Bernard Haykel et Thomas Hegghammer). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015, 351 p.
Awakening Islam. The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, avril 2011, 384 p.
Les islamistes saoudiens. Une insurrection manquée. Paris : Presses Universitaires de France, 2010, 392 p.
"Rejectionist Islamism in Saudi Arabia: The Story of Juhayman al-‘Utaybi Revisited". The International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES), Washington, vol. 39, n°1, February 2017 : 103-122. (avec T. Hegghammer).
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