Waleed Rikab Author

Waleed Rikab holds a Ph.D. in the study of Religion from Rice University and has taught college courses on Islam and politics from the era of the Crusades to the 21st century. His research focuses on the interactions between apocalyptic thought, political reform, militancy, and utopianism in Islamic traditions. Together with co-authors David Cook and Eyüp Öztürk, Waleed Rikab also has a forthcoming Anthology of Later Muslim Apocalyptic Sources that makes a collection of Ottoman apocalyptic treatises, authored from the 1400s to the 1900s, accessible to scholars for the first time.