Jacob Høigilt

Researcher
PhD, University of Oslo, 2008

E-mail: jacob.hoigilt@fafo.no

Tel: +47 22088686

Work areas:
Islamism; language and ideology; Arab politics and society

Current projects

Religion and political activism among Palestinian youth

The ideology and sociology of language change in the Arab world

Publications

(2011), The salafis are coming – but where are they going? Noref report, Oslo, Noref. Online.

(2011), "Hvordan forstå Muslimbrødrene? - Islamisme i den arabiske og den europeiske konteksten." Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, 02

(2010) "Rhetoric and Ideology in Egypt’s Wasatiyya Movement", Arabica, Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 57

(2010) "Darfur between war and peace", Noref Article, Oslo, Noref. Online.

(2010) Raising Extremists? Islamism and education in the Palestinian Territories. Fafo-report 2010:05

(2010) Darfur and Arab Public Opinion: Strategies for Engagement. FRIDE/Noref. Madrid: FRIDE

(2008) “Varieties of Persuasion in Modern Forms of Islamic Proselytizing in Egypt”, Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, no. 124, pp. 243-263

(2008) “Hva er islamisme”, with Kjetil Selvik, Babylon, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 8-20

(2008) “Systemic Functional Linguistics and Contemporary Islamic Rhetoric in Egypt”, in Ibrahim, Zeinab and Sanaa A. M. Makhlouf (eds.), Linguistics in an Age of Globalization, Cairo, AUC Press, pp. 181-191

(2007) “Islamism, Pluralism and the Palestine Question: The Case of Hizbullah”, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Volum 34.(2) pp. 123-136

(2005) ”Venner av Amerika”, Babylon, Vol 3, no. 1, pp. 56-64

(2004) ”Islamsk teologi som ideologisk slagmark”, Babylon, Vol.2, no. 1, pp. 138-147

(2003) ” Det avgjørende demokratiet”, Babylon, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 6-14

(2003) ”For en europeisering av islamismen”, Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift, no. 2