Guy Robert Eyre completed his PhD at the Department of Politics and International Studies in the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). Situated at the nexus of comparative politics, political theory, and political anthropology, his doctoral research argued that prominent 'quietist' Islamic social movements in Morocco and Algeria, who claim they 'don’t do politics' and focus instead on religious education, actually do do politics via inter-group contestation vis-a-vis competing Islamist networks and state institutions. Guy also holds a BA in Philosophy from Bristol University, an MA in Legal and Political Theory from University College London, and an MA in Middle East Studies from SOAS (funded). Having lectured at the Department of Political Economy in King's College London, Guy was a Fellow at the BMBF-funded Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb (MECAM) in Tunis. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute in Freiburg University. His new project, titled 'Rethinking Salafism/Wahhabism and the Limits of State Power in North Africa', develops an in-depth and multi-country comparative study of Salafi transnationalism across North Africa. He is on twitter here: https://twitter.com/GuyEyre
Publications
‘The Moroccan ‘Salafism since the Arab Spring', in Salafi Social and Political Movements: National and Transnational Contexts’, edited by Prof. Masooda Bano at Oxford University (Edinburgh University Press, September 2021)
‘ ‘Quietist’ Salafism and politics in Morocco and Libya’, co-written with Inga Trauthig (KCL), Sharq Forum (2021)