Mohamed Mohamed
Mohamed Mohamed received his Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at the George Mason
University. His work draws from the sociology of religion, political sociology, globalization
theory and institutional change theory to examine how and under what circumstances might
domestic religious actors influence global politics. In his dissertation, “Al-Azhar Re-Imagined:
State Appropriation, Religious Capital, and Political Transnationalism, 1924-2024”, he examines
the various ways in which Egypt’s official religious establishment, al-Azhar, has been interacting
with transnational politics over the last century.
Ph.D. in Sociology, George Mason University, 2024
Master of Arts in Middle Eastern Studies, King’s College London, 2017
Master of Arts in Islamic Studies, George Washington University, 2016
Bachelor of Arts in Islamic Studies, Al-Azhar University, 2009
Mohamed, Mohamed. Selling God: The UAE, Al-Azhar, and Transnational Transferability of
Religious Capital. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Forthcoming, 2024).
Mohamed, Mohamed. “Beyond the ‘Instrumentalization’ Thesis: The Reconfiguration of al-
Azhar-State Relationship in Post-Coup Egypt’. In Egypt’s New Authoritarian Republic, Robert
Springborg and Abdel-Fattah Mady (eds.). Lynne Rienner, (Forthcoming, 2025).