Research Interests

• Political Islam
  • The role of Islam in the social and political context
  • Profile and evolution of Islamically oriented movements, groups, and political parties in the Muslim world
  • Issues and implication for US and Australian foreign policy
• Israel-Palestine conflict
  • Implications of competing norms; self-defence versus self-determination
  • Achieving a ‘just peace’; the content and role of the United Nations Security Council Resolutions
  • Muslim thought and action in the context of conflict resolution
• Islamic thought and the higher objectives (maqasid) of Islamic law
  • Evolution of modern Islamic thought
  • Norms, identity, and Islam-West relations
  • Methodology for interpreting and applying Islamic scripture in accordance with the maqasid, principles of contextualisation, and empirical research
• Islam and the mass media
  • Representation of Islam and Muslims and differential readings of media content
  • Implications for relations between Muslim communities and the wider society
  • Islamic media models