Dr. Ermin Sinanović

Areas of Expertise

political science, Islamic political thought, Islamic reform

Biography

Dr. Ermin Sinanović is the executive director of the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World (CICW) at Shenandoah University, where he is also a Scholar in Residence. Before joining CICW, he was the director of research and academic programs at the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT). He taught in the Department of Political Science at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

He studied for an MA and a PhD in Political Science at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. His research interests include transnational Islamic revival, revival and reform in Islam, Islamic political thought, Southeast Asian politics, and Islam and politics in general. He speaks Bosnian, English, Arabic, and Malay.

Selected Publications and Work

Sinanovic, Ermin (ed.), The Muslim Resolutions: Bosniak Responses to World War Two Atrocities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Sarajevo and Leesburg: Institute for the Islamic Tradition of the Bosniaks and the Center for Islam in the Contemporary World, 2021). Sinanovic, Ermin, "Singapore’s Muslim Community: A Moral Voice? – Comparative Perspectives on Integration in a Global Age" (Singapore: Center for Research on Islam and Malay Affairs, 2013). Sinanovic, Ermin, “Reform, Radicalism, and the Role of Islam in Modern Societies,” American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 29.1 (2012): 126-134. Sinanovic. Ermin. “The Majority Principle in Islamic Legal and Political Thought,” Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 15.2 (April 2004): 237-256. Sinanovic, Ermin, “Promoting Democracy Top-Down: The Role of International Factors in Promoting Democracy and Civil Society in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” in eds. Christophe Solioz and Svebor Dizdarevic, Ownership Process in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Contributions on the International Dimensions of Democratization in the Balkans (Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2003): 120-128. (Originally published in Christophe Solioz and Svebor Dizdarevic, eds., Ownership Process in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sarajevo, 2001: 105-117).

Selected BIS Teaching

• IRL-524 Schools of Islamic Thought (Historical & Contemporary)

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