World History: Islamic History, Middle East, Africa, South Asia, Political History, Religious History, Social Movements
Islamic History; Islamic Political Thought & Political Islam; Shi'ite Islam; Middle East; Africa; South Asia; Social Movements; Political Violence & Terrorism
“From Dirʿiyya to Riyadh: The History and Global Impact of Saudi Religious Propagation and Education,” with Yasir Qadhi, in Wahhabism and the World: Understanding Saudi Arabia’s Global Influence on Islam, edited by Peter Mandaville (Oxford University Press, 2022).
“Framing Insurgency and the Rebel Proto-State: Al-Shabaab’s Media and Information Operations,” The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2021): https://doi.org/10.1080/21520844.2021.1962144.
“Women and Jihadism: Between the Battlefield and the Home-front,” Agenda: A Journal about Women and Gender 30, no. 3 (2016): 18-24.
“In the Shadow of the Islamic State: Shi‘i Responses to Sunni Jihadist Narratives in a Turbulent Middle East,” in Jihadism Transformed: Al-Qaeda and Islamic State’s Global Battle of Ideas (Oxford University Press, 2016), 157-182.
“The Multiple Faces of Jabhat al-Nusra (Jabhat Fath al-Sham) in Syria’s Civil War,” Insight Turkey 18, no. 2 (Spring 2016): 41-50.
“The Rise and Decline of al-Shabab in Somalia,” Turkish Review 4, no. 4 (2014): 386-395.
“Globalizing Insurgency in Somalia,” in A World Connected: Globalization in the 21st Century, ed. Nayan Chanda and Susan Froetschel (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), 129-132.
“Propaganda,” The Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, eds. Gerhard Böwering, Patricia Crone, Wadad Kadi, Devin Stewart, Muhammad Qasim Zaman, and Mahan Mirza. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012.
“Ayatollah Hosayn Ali Montazeri,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Law, ed. Jonathan A. C. Brown. New York: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
“Shi‘a,” in The Encyclopedia of the Modern World, ed. Peter Stearns. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
HIST 387: Jihad in the Islamic World
Christopher Anzalone has a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies with a focus on the Middle East and Africa from McGill University, an M.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from Indiana University-Bloomington, and a B.A. in History and Religious Studies from George Mason University. He was previously a Research Fellow with the International Security program at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and he is Assistant Professor with Middle East Studies at the Krulak Center, Marine Corps University in Quantico, Virginia where he covers the Middle East and Islamicate Africa.