Emin Poljarević

Publications

A comprehensive catalogue of books, peer-reviewed articles and chapters, editorial contributions, reference works, reports, reviews, and selected public scholarship. Citations and publication status are based on available CV, institutional, and publisher records; DOI and open-access links are included where independently confirmed.

Selected publications: The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Muslim Liberation Theologies (2026); “Civic Suspicion and Moral Sorting” (2026); “Negotiating the State” (2025); and “Islam as Method” (2024). The complete catalogue below is organised by publication type and links to individual scholarly records.

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Books, edited volumes, and dissertation

  1. Emin Poljarević and Ivan Ejub Kostić, eds. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Muslim Liberation Theologies. Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming October 2026.
  2. Donatella della Porta, Teije Hidde Donker, Bogumila Hall, Emin Poljarević, and Daniel P. Ritter. Social Movements and Civil War: When Protests for Democratization Fail. London: Routledge, 2017. DOI.
  3. Emin Poljarević. Exploring Individual Motivation for Social Change: Mobilization of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Youth in Pre-Revolutionary Egypt. Doctoral dissertation. Florence: European University Institute, 2012. DOI.

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  1. Emin Poljarević. “Nebulösa islamiska studier?” Scandinavian Journal of Islamic Studies 19, no. 1 (forthcoming).
  2. Emin Poljarević. “Civic Suspicion and Moral Sorting: Islamophobia, Folkbildning, and the Defunding of Muslim Civil Society in Sweden.” Islamophobia Studies Journal 9, no. 2 (2026): 175–199. DOI.
  3. Abdi Hassan and Emin Poljarević. “Adjudicating Muslimness: Islamophobia and the Limits of Swedish Law.” Islamophobia Studies Journal 9, no. 2 (2026): 200–218. DOI.
  4. Emin Poljarević. “Negotiating the State: Citizenship and Political Theology in the Thought of Yusuf al-Qaradawi and Rachid al-Ghannouchi.” Political Theology 26, no. 4 (2025): 383–404. DOI.
  5. Emin Poljarević. “Prospects of Reviving Islamic Civilisation through Public Spaces: Muslim Civility at the 2022 FIFA World Cup.” Al-Shajarah 29, no. 2 (2024): 11–35. DOI.
  6. Emin Poljarević. “Islam as Method.” Philosophy and Society 35, no. 3 (2024): 465–484. DOI.
  7. Senad Mrahorović and Emin Poljarević. “FIFA World Cup 2022™: A Case for InterCivilizational Dialogue and Understanding.” Journal of Alliance of Civilizations 4 (2024): 29–57.
  8. Mohamed Jabir Ali al-Hudawi, Emin Poljarević, and Khalil Ahmad. “A Critical Examination of the Theoretical Foundations of Wasaṭī Minority Jurisprudence.” Sociology of Islam 10, nos. 3–4 (2024): 258–279. DOI.
  9. Emin Poljarević. “The Political Theology of Malcolm X: Between Human Dignity and Returning the Gaze.” Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift 96, no. 1 (2020): 11–27.
  10. Emin Poljarević. “The Power of Elective Affinities in Contemporary Salafism.” The Muslim World 106, no. 3 (2016): 474–500. DOI.
  11. Emin Poljarević. “Les Salafistes and a French Reproduction of Certainties in a World of Uncertainties.” American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 33, no. 2 (2016). DOI.
  12. Emin Poljarević. “Islamic Tradition and Meanings of Modernity.” International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity 3, no. 1 (2015): 29–57. DOI.
  13. Emin Poljarević. “In Pursuit of Authenticity: Becoming a Salafi.” Comparative Islamic Studies 8, nos. 1–2 (2014): 139–164. DOI.

Editorial introductions, notes, and short scholarly contributions

  1. Emin Poljarević and Amanj Aziz. “Introduction: Sweden’s Governance of Suspicion: Islamophobia and Conditional Belonging.” Islamophobia Studies Journal 9, no. 2 (2026). DOI.
  2. Ivan Ejub Kostić and Emin Poljarević. “Contemporary Islamic Political and Social Thought Before and After the Arab Spring: Mapping the Field.” Philosophy and Society 35, no. 3 (2024): 461–463.
  3. Emin Poljarević. “Introduction to Political Theology: The Next Generation.” Religions 14, no. 1 (2023): 9. DOI.
  4. Emin Poljarević and Anders Ackfeldt. “Towards an Understanding of the Political Theology of Malcolm X.” Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift 96, no. 1 (2020): 1–11.
  5. Susanne Olsson and Emin Poljarević. “Contemporary Salafism: Expressions, Practices and Everyday Living.” Comparative Islamic Studies 8, nos. 1–2 (2014): 53–56. DOI.

Peer-reviewed chapters in edited volumes and handbooks

  1. Emin Poljarević and Ivan Ejub Kostić. “Setting the Stage: Situating Muslim Liberation Theology.” In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Muslim Liberation Theologies, edited by Emin Poljarević and Ivan Ejub Kostić. Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming 2026.
  2. Emin Poljarević. “Islam as Method: Decolonizing Inquiry and the Ethical Horizon of Liberation.” In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Muslim Liberation Theologies, edited by Emin Poljarević and Ivan Ejub Kostić. Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming 2026.
  3. Senad Mrahorović and Emin Poljarević. “Freedom, Tradition, and the Sacred: Seyyed Hossein Nasr’s Metaphysical Vision of Liberation.” In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Muslim Liberation Theologies, edited by Emin Poljarević and Ivan Ejub Kostić. Wiley Blackwell, forthcoming 2026.
  4. Emin Poljarević. “Navigating the Islamist Landscape.” In Handbook of Civil Society in the Middle East and North Africa, edited by James N. Sater. Routledge, 2025. DOI.
  5. Martin Nykvist and Emin Poljarević. “Religions of Europe: An Introduction.” In Religions of Europe, edited by Martin Nykvist, 5–14. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2025.
  6. Emin Poljarević. “A Phenomenological Approach to the Study of Lived Islam and Muslimness.” In New Methodological Perspectives in Islamic Studies, edited by Abbas Aghdassi and Aaron W. Hughes, 264–290. Leiden: Brill, 2023. DOI.
  7. Emin Poljarević. “Islamisk tro mellan vittnesbörd och respons.” In Systematiska studier av kristen och muslimsk tro: en introduktion, edited by Mohammad Fazlhashemi and Mattias Martinson, 157–182. Malmö: Gleerups, 2021.
  8. Emin Poljarević. “Theology of Violence-oriented Takfirism as a Political Theory: The Case of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).” In Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements, edited by Muhammad Afzal Upal and Carole M. Cusack, 485–512. Leiden: Brill, 2021. DOI.
  9. Emin Poljarević, Susanne Olsson, Ulrika Svalfors, and Malin Löfstedt. “Islamofobi, kritisk reflektion och religionsundervisning.” In Didaktisk dialog i högre utbildning, 65–84. Lund: Studentlitteratur, 2021.
  10. Emin Poljarević. “New Islamist Movements and Concepts of Citizenship.” In The Routledge Handbook of Citizenship in the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Roel Meijer, James N. Sater, and Zahra R. Babar, 201–214. London: Routledge, 2020. DOI.
  11. Emin Poljarević, Pia Karlsson, and Maria Klingenberg. “Religion och samhällsengagemang bland unga svenskar.” In Unga och religion: Troende, ointresserade eller neutrala?, edited by Maria Klingenberg and Mia Lövheim, 165–183. Malmö: Gleerups, 2019.
  12. Emin Poljarević. “The Ambiguity of Citizenship in Contemporary Salafism.” In The Crisis of Citizenship in the Arab World, edited by Roel Meijer and Nils Butenschøn, 338–374. Leiden: Brill, 2017. DOI.
  13. Emin Poljarević. “The Failure of the Libyan Political Transition and the Descent into Civil War.” In Social Movements and Civil War: When Protests for Democratization Fail, 77–103. London: Routledge, 2017. DOI.
  14. Emin Poljarević. “Malik al-Shabazz’s Practice of Self-Liberation.” In Malcolm X: From Political Eschatology to Religious Revolutionary, edited by Dustin J. Byrd and Seyed Javad Miri, 227–251. Leiden: Brill, 2016. DOI.
  15. Emin Poljarević. “Muhammeds efterträdare: de rättledda kaliferna.” In Islam: en religionsvetenskaplig introduktion, edited by Susanne Olsson and Simon Sorgenfrei, 43–59. Stockholm: Liber, 2015.
  16. Emin Poljarević and Ingvar Svanberg. “Latvia.” In Islam in the Nordic and Baltic Countries, edited by Göran Larsson. London: Routledge, 2009. DOI.

Encyclopedia entries and reference works

  1. Emin Poljarević. “What Role Does Malcolm X Play in American Islam?” In Islam in Five Minutes, edited by Edith Szanto. Equinox, forthcoming 2026.
  2. Emin Poljarević. “What Are the Primary Ideas of Islam?” In Islam in Five Minutes, edited by Edith Szanto. Equinox, forthcoming 2026.
  3. Emin Poljarević. “Jihād.” In Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism, edited by Zayn R. Kassam, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, and Jehan Bagli, 392–402. Dordrecht: Springer, 2018. DOI.
  4. Emin Poljarević. “Ibn Taymīyya.” In Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism, edited by Zayn R. Kassam, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, and Jehan Bagli, 296–299. Dordrecht: Springer, 2018. DOI.
  5. Emin Poljarević. “Politics, Islām.” In Islam, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism, edited by Zayn R. Kassam, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, and Jehan Bagli, 551–560. Dordrecht: Springer, 2018. DOI.
  6. Emin Poljarević. “Encyclopedia of Islam.” In Insikt & Handling, no. 25, Tema: Lexikon över lexikon, edited by Bo Hanson. Göteborg: Hans Larsson Samfundet, 2017.
  7. Emin Poljarević. “Ahl al-Dhimma” (infobox). In Islam: en religionsvetenskaplig introduktion, edited by Susanne Olsson and Simon Sorgenfrei. Stockholm: Liber, 2015.
  8. Emin Poljarević. “Ibn Taymiyya” (infobox). In Islam: en religionsvetenskaplig introduktion, edited by Susanne Olsson and Simon Sorgenfrei. Stockholm: Liber, 2015.
  9. Emin Poljarević. “Islamism.” In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics, edited by Sohail Hashmi. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
  10. Emin Poljarević. “Egypt, Revolution of 1952.” In The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, edited by Immanuel Ness, 1076–1079. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. DOI.
  11. Emin Poljarević. “Somalia: Civil War since 1991.” In Encyclopedia of Conflicts Since World War II, 2nd ed., edited by James Ciment. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2006.

Reports, working papers, and policy analyses

  1. Adrian Groglopo and Emin Poljarević. Islamophobia Report — Sweden for CERD: International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. 2025. DOI.
  2. Emin Poljarević, Anna Ardin, and Mattias Irving. “Islamophobia in Sweden: National Report 2021.” In European Islamophobia Report 2021, edited by Enes Bayraklı and Farid Hafez, 573–598. Vienna: Leopold Weiss Institute, 2022.
  3. Emin Poljarević. Libya’s Violent Revolution. COSMOS Working Paper 2012/05. Florence: European University Institute, 2012.
  4. Emin Poljarević. Societal Security in the Baltic Sea Region: Regional Efforts to Combat Organized Crime and Narcotics Smuggling. Silk Road Paper. Washington, DC, and Uppsala: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, 2006. 56 pp. ISBN 91-85473-07-3.
  5. Niklas L. P. Swanström, Emin Poljarević, and Elizabeth Peterson. Organized Crime and Narcotics in the Baltic Sea Region: Issues of National and Regional Security. Conference report. Washington, DC, and Uppsala: Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, 2005. 88 pp.
  6. Emin Poljarević. Countering Narcotics and Organized Crime in the East Baltic Sea Region. Silk Road Studies Report. Uppsala University, 2005.

Book reviews, review essays, and review articles

  1. Emin Poljarević. Review of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic, by Paul E. Lovejoy and Nielson R. Bezerra. Journal of Islamic Studies (2026): etag011. DOI.
  2. Emin Poljarević. Review of Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East, edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel. Milestones: Commentary on the Islamic World (2018).
  3. Emin Poljarević. Review of The Symbolic Scenarios of Islamism, by Andrea Mura. ReOrient 2, no. 2 (2017): 208–210. DOI.
  4. Emin Poljarević. Review of Islam and the Foundations of Political Power, by Ali Abdel Razek. Religious Studies Review 42, no. 2 (2016): 129. DOI.
  5. Emin Poljarević. Review of Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonization and World Order, by Salman Sayyid. Religious Studies Review 42, no. 2 (2016): 129. DOI.
  6. Emin Poljarević. Review of Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam, by Jeffry R. Halverson. Religious Studies Review 42, no. 2 (2016): 128. DOI.
  7. Emin Poljarević. Review of The Politics of Writing Islam: Voicing Difference, by Mahmut Mutman. Religious Studies Review 42, no. 2 (2016): 128. DOI.
  8. Emin Poljarević. Review of Religious Secularity: A Theological Challenge to the Islamic State, by Naser Ghobadzadeh. Religious Studies Review 42, no. 2 (2016): 127. DOI.
  9. Emin Poljarević. Review of Theorizing Islam: Disciplinary Deconstruction and Reconstruction, by Aaron W. Hughes. Comparative Islamic Studies 8, nos. 1–2 (2012): 214–219. DOI.
  10. Emin Poljarević. Review of Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement, edited by Roel Meijer. American Journal of Islam and Society 31, no. 3 (2014): 126–129. DOI.
  11. Emin Poljarević. Review of The Dark Side of Modernity, by Jeffrey C. Alexander. Political Studies Review 12, no. 2 (2014): 248. DOI.
  12. Emin Poljarević. Review of The Impossible State: Islam, Politics and Modernity’s Moral Predicament, by Wael B. Hallaq. Political Studies Review 12, no. 2 (2014): 303. DOI.
  13. Emin Poljarević. “HAMAS: Resistance and Mobilization through Islam.” Review essay. Social Movement Studies 12, no. 4 (2013): 477–482. DOI.
  14. Emin Poljarević. “Ventures into a ‘New’ Paradigm of Social Reality.” Review essay. Social Movement Studies 10, no. 2 (2011): 199–204. DOI.
  15. Emin Poljarević. “Exploring the Islamic State.” Review article. European Political Science 7, no. 4 (2008): 487–493. DOI.
  1. Emin Poljarević. “Disintegration of the Swedish Model.” Islamic Horizons 53, no. 3 (May–June 2024).
  2. Emin Poljarević. “Making Sense out of 21st-Century Barbarism.” Islamic Horizons 53, no. 1 (January–February 2024).
  3. Emin Poljarević. “Bosnia’s Balancing Act: Navigating the Chasm between Collapse and Renewal.” Islamic Horizons 52, no. 6 (November–December 2023).
  4. Emin Poljarević. “The Islamophobic Context and Significance of Qur’an Burnings.” Islamic Horizons 51, no. 5 (September–October 2022).
  5. Emin Poljarević. “Malcolm X and Blackamerican Islamic Liberation Theology.” Islamic Horizons 50, no. 4 (July–August 2021).
  6. Emin Poljarević. “The Dangers of Genocide Denial.” Islamic Horizons 49, no. 4 (July–August 2020).
  7. Emin Poljarević. “The Living Legacy of Malcolm X.” Islamic Horizons 49, no. 1 (January–February 2020): 22–23.
  8. Emin Poljarević. “Ramadan in Scandinavia.” Islamic Horizons 46, no. 3 (May–June 2017).
  9. Emin Poljarević. “Malcolm’s Genius.” Islamic Horizons 44, no. 1 (January–February 2015).
  10. Emin Poljarević. “2013 Stockholm Riots: A Brief Overview.” Euro-Islam: News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and North America, 27 June 2013.
  11. Erica Marat and Emin Poljarević. “Muslim Immigrants from Post-Soviet States in Europe: Community Building along Religious Identities.” Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst 8, no. 8 (19 April 2006): 12–13.
  12. Svante Cornell, Michael Jonsson, Trifin Roule, Niklas L. P. Swanström, and Emin Poljarević. “Kriminella nätverk föredrar Sverige för att tvätta pengar” [Criminal Networks Prefer Sweden for Money Laundering]. Dagens Nyheter, 23 March 2006.
  13. Emin Poljarević. “Bosnien: a sui generis state” [Bosnia: A Sui Generis State]. Inblick Östeuropa 7, nos. 1–2 (2005).

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