Department of Sociology
Mohamed Mohamed, Tulane University

Mohamed Mohamed

Visiting Assistant Professor
mmohamed4@tulane.edu

Education

PhD, Sociology, George Mason University, 2024
MA, Middle Eastern Studies, King’s College London, 2017
MA, Islamic Studies, George Washington University, 2016
BA, Al-Azhar University, 2009

Biography

Mohamed’s work draws from the sociology of religion, political sociology, globalization theory and institutional change theory to examine how and under what circumstances might domestic religious actors influence global politics. In his dissertation, “Al-Azhar Re-Imagined: State Appropriation, Religious Capital, and Political Transnationalism, 1924-2024”, he examines the various ways in which Egypt’s official religious establishment, al-Azhar, has been interacting with transnational politics over the last century.

Publications:

Mohamed, Mohamed. 2024. “Selling God: Al-Azhar, UAE and Transnational Transferability of Religious Capital.” British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 1–20. DOI: 10.1080/13530194.2024.2410209.

Mohamed, Mohamed. “Beyond the ‘Instrumentalization’ Thesis: The Reconfiguration of al-Azhar-State Relationship in Post-Coup Egypt’. In Egypt’s New Authoritarian Republic, Robert Springborg and Abdel-Fattah Mady (eds.). Lynne Rienner, (Forthcoming, 2025).