Naveed Sheikh | Area Studies | Best Researcher Award

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Dr. Naveed Sheikh | Area Studies | Best Researcher Award

Dr. Naveed Sheikh | Area Studies | Lecturer at Keele University | United Kingdom

Dr. Naveed Sheikh is an accomplished scholar and academic leader in the field of International Relations, currently serving as a Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at Keele University, United Kingdom. He earned his Ph.D. in International Studies from the University of Cambridge, where his doctoral research explored the intersection of religion, strategic culture, and international politics, with a comparative analysis of nuclear states such as Pakistan, India, and Israel. His earlier academic foundation includes a master’s degree in International Relations from the University of Durham and a bachelor’s degree with honors in Political Science and Modern History from the University of Buckingham, where he graduated as the top student among humanities scholars. Professionally, Dr. Naveed Sheikh has held visiting positions at globally recognized institutions, including the University of Notre Dame, Hosei University in Japan, the College of Europe in Warsaw, and the Indonesian International Islamic University. His teaching and research span Middle Eastern politics, Islamic political thought, security studies, and global foreign policy analysis. His research skills encompass qualitative political analysis, comparative foreign policy, and the study of religious and ideological movements in international contexts. Dr. Sheikh’s contributions have been recognized through numerous teaching awards at Keele University, including the University Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. He has also served as Editor-in-Chief of Politics, Religion & Ideology (Taylor & Francis), a leading journal in the field of political religions and ideologies. A member of multiple scholarly associations such as EISA and ASMEA, Dr. Sheikh continues to contribute to advancing knowledge in religion and international politics. His dedication to research, mentorship, and cross-cultural understanding establishes him as a globally respected academic committed to shaping future scholarship in political and religious studies.

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Featured Publications

  1. Sheikh, N. S. (2007). The new politics of Islam: Pan-Islamic foreign policy in a world of states. Routledge. (Citations: 152)

  2. Sheikh, N. S. (2016). Ali Mazrui: The global Muslim thinker. American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 33(3). (Citations: 48)

  3. Sheikh, N. S. (2010). (En)Gendering religious politics: Women, identity, and agency in global religio-politics. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, 11(3-4). (Citations: 67)

  4. Sheikh, N. S. (2025). Pax Wahhabica revisited: Saudi Arabia’s theopolitics from hegemony to hybridity. Religions. (Citations: 12)

  5. Sheikh, N. S. (Accepted). Against faux feminism: The heroic and the horrific in female suicide terror. Peace Review. (Citations: 9)

  6. Sheikh, N. S. (Under review). The hermeneutics of jihad: Identity, affect, postcolonial subjectivity in Boko Haram. Critical Studies on Terrorism. (Citations: 5)