Sohail
Hashmi
Associate Professor of International
Relations
Research
interests: religion and politics, particularly the role of Islam in domestic
and international relations; ethics and international relations, particularly
the comparative ethics of war and peace; Middle East politics
Sohail Hashmi
became interested in the role of religion in politics as a high school
student watching the Iranian Revolution unfold. At Harvard College, he
studied comparative Western and Islamic political theory and international
relations. He focused on the history and contemporary politics of the
Middle East as an M.A. student at Princeton's Department of Near Eastern
Studies. He later returned to Harvard's Department of Government to work
on a doctorate in the field of international ethics, focusing on the contemporary
Islamic discourse on just war and peace.
Hashmi has
taught at Mount Holyoke since 1994. His teaching and research interests
lie at the intersection of Western and Islamic political and moral philosophy
as they relate to normative issues in comparative and international politics.
He has published on such topics as sovereignty, humanitarian intervention,
international society, and the theory of jihad.
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