YOUCEF SOUFI
Books
Homegrown Radicals
A Story of State Violence, Islamophobia, and Jihad in the Post-9/11 World
On March 7th, 2007, three Muslim university students left their small city on the Canadian Prairies, seemingly without a trace. In the ensuing months, their disappearance raised fears among Canadian and US security agencies that the men had become “radicalized,” posing a grave threat to national security...
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The Rise of Critical Islam
10th-13th Century Legal Debate
A historical exploration into a community of Muslim legal scholars committed to the openness, fluidity, and continued exploration of God's law (the Shari'a). The study reveals a culture whose members expected and encouraged one another to debate and critique each others' ideas, hoping thereby to fulfill a personal duty to God.
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Biography
Youcef Soufi, PhD, is a historian and social critic. His writings focus on Muslim intellectual history and contemporary Islamophobia in the US and Canada.
