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Khadijah Elshayyal

Research Fellow, Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World, The University of Edinburgh

Khadijah Elshayyal is a Research Fellow at the Alwaleed Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World at the University Of Edinburgh. She is currently working on the ESRC-funded Digital British Islam project. Her research interests include the political agency of Muslims in diaspora contexts, on which she has published widely, and is author of Muslim Identity Politics: Islam, activism and equality in Britain (IB Tauris, 2018) and Scottish Muslims in Numbers: understanding Scotland’s Muslims through the 2011 Census (University of Edinburgh, 2016).

Experience

  • –present
    Postdoctoral Fellow (Muslims in Britain), University of Edinburgh

Education

  • 2014 
    Royal Holloway, University of London, PhD (History)