Murad Idris

Murad Idris is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan in the US. He writes on war, peace, empire, anticolonialism,religion, and Islamic political thought. He is the author of War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought (Oxford University Press, 2019) and co-editor with Leigh Jenco and Megan Thomas of The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory (Oxford University Press, 2020). His articles have appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Critical Times, Political Theory, Modern Intellectual History, and European Journal of Political Theory, among others. At the University of Michigan, he teaches classes that span the history of ancient, modern, and contemporary political thought.