Sasan Aghlani

Sasan Aghlani is a researcher at Chatham House in the International Security Department, and a PhD candidate at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in the Department of Politics and International Studies. Follow him on Twitter @Aghlani.

To fight extremism we need more Islamisms, not less

As with most other societies that have forced Islamism underground, today’s British fighters in Iraq and Syria were in all likelihood unconvinced by the quietism of Britain’s religious scholars.

By Sasan Aghlani

/ 3 Sep 2014

To fight extremism we need more Islamisms, not less

As with most other societies that have forced Islamism underground, today’s British fighters in Iraq and Syria were in all likelihood unconvinced by the quietism of Britain’s religious scholars.

By Sasan Aghlani

/ 3 Sep 2014

Nuclear assurances: when a fatwa isn’t a fatwa

Ayatollah Khamenei issued a fatwa forbidding the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons. What does its disregard mean for his ability to project authority to both international actors and domestic audiences?

By Sasan Aghlani

/ 8 Mar 2013