Religious Studies: Abdullahi A. Gallab

Assistant Professor of Religious Studies
PhD, Brigham Young University, 1997
Arrived at ASU: 2005

Office: 268 Wilson Hall
Phone: (480) 965-2921
E-mail: Abdullahi.Gallab@asu.edu

Research Interests

Current Islamist movements within their local, regional and global contexts. Contemporary Islamic and Islamist discourses, leaderships, and organizations.

Biography

Abdullahi Gallab was educated at the University of Khartoum, Boston University, and Brigham Young University where he received his Ph.D.

Courses Taught

REL 394A/AFS 394A - Islam and Word Affairs
REL 394G/AFS 394G - Islam and Islamic Societies in Africa
REAL 494/598/AFS/POS: Different Voices within Contemporary Islamic Discourse
REAL 494/598/AFS/POS: Jihad (scheduled for Spring 2008)

Selected Publications

Books:
The First Islamist Republic: Development and Disintegration of Islamism in the Sudan (Hampshire, UK Ashgate Publishers, December 2007).

A Civil Society Deferred: the Tertiary Grip of Violence in the Sudan: Under Contract

Articles:
“The Insecure Rendezvous Between Islam and Totalitarianism: The Failure of the Islamists State in the Sudan,” Arab Studies Quarterly, 23:2 (Spring 2001): 87-108.

(2) “The Religious State in the Sudan : A Primary Characterization of the Debacle,” The New Political Science Journal (UK), 23:1 (January 2001): 11-24.

Book Chapters:
“The Insecure Rendezvous Between Islam and Totalitarianism: The Failure of the Islamists State in the Sudan,” was published in Barry Rubin. Ed, Political Islam: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies, (London and New York, Routledge, 2007) P. 5—28

With Allen W. Palmer, “Islam and Western Culture: Navigating Across Terra Incognita,” in Dan Stout and Judith M. Buddenbaum, eds., Religion and Popular Culture: Studies on the Interaction of Worldviews (Ames : Iowa State University Press, 2001): 109-123.