Jonathan Benthall – E-International Relations

Author profile: Jonathan Benthall

Jonathan Benthall is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, University College London and former Director of the Royal Anthropological Institute, where he founded the journal Anthropology Today. His publications include The Best of Anthropology Today (editor, 2002), The Charitable Crescent: Politics of Aid in the Muslim world (with Jérôme BellionJourdan, 2003, new edition 2009), Returning to Religion: Why a Secular Age is Haunted by Faith (2008) and Gulf Charities and Islamic Philanthropy in the ‘Age of Terror’ and Beyond (co-edited with Robert Lacey, 2014). He reviews regularly for the Times Literary Supplement.

Building a Reform Movement: Could Muslims Emulate Nineteenth Century Judaism?

Jonathan Benthall • Mar 16 2015 • Articles

The challenge for Islamic reformers today is vastly more politically complicated. But could lessons on religious reform be found in Nineteenth Century Judaism?

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