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This Special Issue draws attention to religious transformations currently emerging in the Middle East that diverge from the dominating rhetoric surrounding ‘radicalization’, ‘political Islam’, or the ‘Islamic awakening’. Particularly after the Arab uprisings, other currents seem to be coming more to the fore that need careful examination, such as the contemporary realities of religious ambivalence, religious doubts, disengagement from religious movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood, the search for alternative forms of spirituality or individualized piety, de-veiling, and different forms of non-conformism, free thinking, non-belief, and atheism. Accordingly, the contributions to this Special Issue provide highly relevant insights into several contemporary debates that are crucial in the social sciences and religious studies. This includes processes of individualization; the study of everyday lived (non-)religion; the anthropology of doubt, ambivalence, and ambiguity; and, last but not least, the deconstruction of the religious–secular divide, a divide that is seen as almost impenetrable according to many actors in the Middle East. This Special Issue consists of a cross-section of current works in social science, religious studies, and related fields on Islam/religion and non-religion in the Middle East. The articles present case studies from different countries in the Middle East, with examples from Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, and Syria, as well as studies on diaspora and social media.

Religion & beliefs --- (un)veiling --- gender --- spirituality --- piety --- non-belief --- the self --- Islam --- Egypt --- moral ambivalence --- religious doubt --- Turkey --- Hajj --- Morocco --- everyday life --- self-formation --- anthropology of non-religion --- lived religion --- online activism --- humor --- memes --- nonbelievers --- freethinkers --- atheism --- Syria --- Arab world --- social media --- criticism of Islam --- religiosities --- non-religiosities --- youth --- Alexandria --- processes of individualisation --- Islamism --- Muslim Brotherhood --- disengagement --- the Arab Spring --- social movements --- n/a

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This Special Issue draws attention to religious transformations currently emerging in the Middle East that diverge from the dominating rhetoric surrounding ‘radicalization’, ‘political Islam’, or the ‘Islamic awakening’. Particularly after the Arab uprisings, other currents seem to be coming more to the fore that need careful examination, such as the contemporary realities of religious ambivalence, religious doubts, disengagement from religious movements such as the Muslim Brotherhood, the search for alternative forms of spirituality or individualized piety, de-veiling, and different forms of non-conformism, free thinking, non-belief, and atheism. Accordingly, the contributions to this Special Issue provide highly relevant insights into several contemporary debates that are crucial in the social sciences and religious studies. This includes processes of individualization; the study of everyday lived (non-)religion; the anthropology of doubt, ambivalence, and ambiguity; and, last but not least, the deconstruction of the religious–secular divide, a divide that is seen as almost impenetrable according to many actors in the Middle East. This Special Issue consists of a cross-section of current works in social science, religious studies, and related fields on Islam/religion and non-religion in the Middle East. The articles present case studies from different countries in the Middle East, with examples from Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, and Syria, as well as studies on diaspora and social media.

Religion & beliefs --- (un)veiling --- gender --- spirituality --- piety --- non-belief --- the self --- Islam --- Egypt --- moral ambivalence --- religious doubt --- Turkey --- Hajj --- Morocco --- everyday life --- self-formation --- anthropology of non-religion --- lived religion --- online activism --- humor --- memes --- nonbelievers --- freethinkers --- atheism --- Syria --- Arab world --- social media --- criticism of Islam --- religiosities --- non-religiosities --- youth --- Alexandria --- processes of individualisation --- Islamism --- Muslim Brotherhood --- disengagement --- the Arab Spring --- social movements

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structure and characteristics of terrorist organizations --- leadership --- command cadre and network structures --- decline of terrorist organizations --- global jihad movement --- the al-Qaeda organization --- global jihad trajectory --- ideological collision --- Afghanistan --- Azzam --- Zawahiri --- global jihad against the West --- the structure of Al-Qaeda --- mobilization --- Al-Qaeda leadership in Iran --- Jemaah Islamiyah of Southeast Asia --- Mantiqi I --- Singapore --- Malaysia --- Thailand --- Mantiqi II --- Indonesia --- Mantiqi III --- Philippines --- Mantiqi IV --- Australia --- funding --- 11 september attacks --- anthrax --- The United States West Coast --- Bali bombing --- Marriott bombing, Jakarta --- Australian Embassy bombing, Jakarta --- Ritz-Carlton and JW Marriot attack 2009 --- Israeli targets in Australia --- El Al flight in Bangkok --- APEC Summit --- Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula --- AQAP --- the Yemeni regime --- Yemen --- the Arab Spring --- military power and capabilities --- training camps --- guerilla and terror --- international global jihad activity --- Anwar al-Awlaki influenced groups and individuals --- Nassir al-Wuhaysi --- Abu Bassir al-Yamani --- Saeed al-Shiri --- Qasim al-Rimi --- Abu Huraira al-Sanani --- Ibrahim Hassan Tali al-Assiri --- Abdel Bin Abdullah Bin Thabit al-Abbab --- Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb --- AQIM --- Lashkar-e-Toyba --- Army of the Pure --- the Taliban --- Jemaah Islamiyah --- Abu Sayyaf Group --- ASG --- Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan --- IMU --- Islamic Jihad Union --- IJU --- Libyan Islamic Fighting Group --- LIFG --- the Muslim Bortherhood --- Shabaab al-Mujahidin - Somalia --- Lebanese Hezbollah --- Abdullah Azzam Brigades --- Jaish-e-Mohamed --- Harakat al-Mujahidien --- HUM --- East Turkestan Islamic Movement --- ETIM --- Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas --- Iraq --- Kurds --- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi --- Tawhid Wal Jihad Group --- Ansar al-Islam --- Ansar al-Sunna --- Tanzim Qaidat fi Bilad al-Rafidayn --- exporting terrorist operations from Iraq --- Chechnya --- radical islamist foreign fighters in Chechnya --- the Middle East --- Egypt --- Libya --- Syria --- Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham --- ISIS --- lone wolves --- homegrown cells --- preradicalization --- self-identity --- indoctrination --- Inspire Magazine