AbdoolKarim Vakil

AbdoolKarim Vakil is lecturer in History and Portuguese studies in the departments of History and of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at King’s College London. He is a past chair of the Muslim Council of Britain’s Research and Documentation Committee, and former academic advisor to the Muslim Community of Lisbon, Portugal. AbdoolKarim’s publications include the co-edited and co-authored volumes Thinking Through Islamophobia: Global Perspectives (2010), Moçambique: Memória Falada do Islão e da Guerra (2011), and Al-Andalus in Motion: Travelling Concepts and Cross-Cultural Contexts (2021). With S. Sayyid he has published , 'Reports of Islamophobia: 1997 and 2017', ReOrient CMS Blogs (Nov. 2017); 'In Conversation: Thinking Through Islamophobia', Network ReOrient Critical Muslim Studies Podcasts (Dec. 2020); 'Foreword' to Defining Islamophobia: A Contemporary Understanding of How Expressions of Muslimness are Targeted, Muslim Council of Britain (2021), and most recently, the chapters ‘The Grammar of Islamophobia’ in Salman al-Azami ed., Media Language on Islam and Muslims: Terminology and Effects (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023); ‘Critical Muslim Studies and the Remaking of the (Ancient) World’, in Mathura Umachandran and Chella Ward eds., Critical Ancient World Studies: The Case for Forgetting Classics (2024), and ‘Is This The Age of Islamophobia?’ (in press).