The following are books, journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews published since 2024. For a fuller list, visit Google Scholar.
BOOKS AND SPECIAL ISSUES
Abbas, T., (ed. in chief, 2028), The Encyclopedia of Religion, Power and Global Transformation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier (forthcoming).
Abbas, T., Vostermans, L., and McNeil-Willson, R. (eds.) (2026), The Routledge International Handbook on Social Exclusion and Radicalisation, Abingdon: Routledge.
Abbas, T., McNeil-Willson, R., and Vostermans, L. (eds.) (2025), Guest editors of the special issue of Religions, ‘Constructing the “European Muslim Crisis”: Discourse, Policy, and Everyday Realities’. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI.
Abbas, T. (2025) Capitalism, State Power, and the Production of Extremism, Cham, Switzerland: Springer Briefs in Sociology.
Groen, R. and Abbas, T. (2025) Voices of Gen Z: Shaping Transitions in the City of Peace and Justice, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Dutta, S., Abbas T., and Bergh, S.I. (eds.) (2025), Global Counter-Terrorism, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
Iqbal, K., and Abbas, T. (2024) (eds.) Ethnicity, Religion, and Muslim Education in a Changing World: Navigating Contemporary Perspectives on Multicultural Schooling in the UK, Abingdon: Routledge.
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES
Abbas, T., 2026, ‘From Grievance to Endorsement: Political Alienation as a Conditional Catalyst, Not a Cause, of Support for Political Violence’, Psychology of Violence, forthcoming.
Abbas, T., McNeil-Willson, R., and Vostermans, L., 2026, ‘The Structural Logic of Radicalisation: A Cross-National Test of Institutional Contingency in Four European Societies’, Terrorism and Political Violence, forthcoming.
Abbas, T., 2026, ‘Discrimination, Grievance, and the Endorsement of Political Violence in the Netherlands’, Politics, Religion, and Ideology, published online 18 June.
Bruchhaus, J. and Abbas, T., 2026, ‘Laïcité and the Contestation of Belonging: Muslim Social Identities in France Twenty Years after the Headscarf Ban’, Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, published online 28 May.
Abbas, T. and Akhtar, P. 2026, ‘Manufacturing Consent: Faragism and the Hegemonic Struggle for Britain’, Sociology Compass, published online 22 May.
Abbas, T., 2006, ‘A Place for Extremism: Nativist Grievance, Frustrated Expectations, and the Spatial Dynamics of the Global City’, Political Geography, published online 19 May.
Abbas, T. and Onay, Ö., 2026, ‘The Credential Reversal: Educational Attainment as Racialised Political Exclusion for British Muslims’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, published online 8 April.
Abbas, T. 2026, ‘The Geography of Discontent Revisited: Decoupling Attitudinal Clustering and Affective Intensification in Urban Britain’, National Identities, published online 13 March.
Abbas, T., Tamimova, M., Wabnitz, P. K., and Trebeschi, I., 2026, ‘Geopolitics at Home: Examining Conflict, Civic Trust, and Minority Faith Expression in Europe’, The Review of Faith & International Affairs, published online 3 March.
Abbas, T., 2026, ‘The Complexity of Coexistence: Dutch Perspectives on Multiculturalism and Muslim Integration’, Acta Politica, published online 25 February.
Abbas, T., Trebeschi, I. and Wabnitz, P. K., 2026, ‘The Securitised Synagogue: Ethnic Identity, Contested Belonging, and Jewish Places of Worship in Contemporary Europe’, Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, published online 3 February.
Abbas, T., Vostermans, L., and McNeil-Willson, R., 2026, ‘Acute to Chronic Islamophobia: The Impact and Mitigation of Counter-Extremism on Young Muslims in Northern Europe‘, Critical Studies on Terrorism, published online 14 January.
Abbas, T., McNeil-Willson, R., and Vostermans, L., 2026, ‘The dialectic of Islamophobia and Islamism: A cross-national inquiry into four European societies’, Cooperation and Conflict, published online 4 January.
Abbas, T. and McNeil-Willson, R., 2025, ‘Resilience and Resistance: How Young Northwestern European Muslims Confront Pedagogical Islamophobia’, Race Ethnicity and Education, published online 5 December.
Abbas, T., 2025, ‘Beyond the Racialised Islamophobic Narrative: Muslim Identity as a Protective Factor Against Radicalisation’, Critical Sociology, published online 24 November.
Abbas, T., Tamimova, M., Wabnitz, P. K., and Trebeschi, I., 2025, ‘From symbolic violence to structural exclusion: The multidimensional nature of Islamophobia in Europe’, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, published online 24 November.
Bruchhaus, J. and Abbas, T., 2025, ‘The Suspect Citizen: Institutional Islamophobia, Prevent, and the British Muslim Experience’, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, published online 14 November.
Abbas, T., and Khattab, N., 2025, ‘Belief, Belonging, and Borders: Mapping Faith, Identity, and Integration Across European Cities, Quality & Quantity, published online 13 October.
Abbas, T. and McNeil-Willson, R., 2025, ‘From Margins to Extremes: Economic Factors, Social Integration, and the Radicalisation of European Youth, Journal of Intercultural Studies, published online 12 October.
Abbas, T. and McNeil-Willson, R., 2025, ‘Digital Masculinities in Crisis: Understanding Virtual Pathways to Male Extremism Across Communities’, Men and Masculinities, published online 7 October.
Abbas, T. and McNeil-Willson, R., 2025, ‘Social Exclusion and Radicalisation among Muslim Minorities and Ethnic Majorities in Northwestern Europe’, Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies, published 15 July.
Abbas, T., McNeil-Willson, R., Boyd-MacMillan, E., and DeMarinis, V., 2025, ‘The Role of Humiliation and Discrimination in the Radicalisation Process: A Psychosocial Analysis’, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, published online 16 April.
Abbas, T., and McNeil-Willson, R., 2025, ‘Beyond the Urban-Rural Binary: Spatial Dynamics of Integration, Segregation and Radicalisation in Northwest Europe’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, published online 1 April.
Güner, S.S. and Abbas, T., (2024) ‘Intersectional Activism: Dutch-Turkish Muslim Women “Talking Back” to Securitization and Islamophobia’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, published online 9 May.
Dutta, S., and Abbas, T., (2024) ‘Protecting the people: Populism and masculine security in India and Hungary‘, Journal of Political Ideologies, published online 3 April.
De Coster, S., Veilleux-Lepage, Y., Amarasingam, A. and Abbas, T. (2024) ‘Uncovering the bias and prejudice in reporting on Islamist and non-Islamist terrorist attacks in British and US newspapers’, Perspectives on Terorrism, 28(3): 25-50.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Abbas, T. (2025) ‘From fear to fascism’, in Z. Sardar (ed.) Critical Muslim 55: Fascism (pp. 57–68), London: Hurst.
Abbas, T. (2025) ‘The racialized logic of the UK’s countering extremism strategy’, in M. Grossman & H.A. Hellyer (eds.) Rethinking Religion and Radicalization: Terrorism and Violence Twenty Years After 9/11 (pp. 41–54). London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Abbas, T. (2024) ‘The Changing Landscape of Higher Education for British Muslims: Exclusion, Marginalisation, and Surveillance’, in Mahmud, A., Islam, M. (eds.) Uncovering Islamophobia in Higher Education, Cham: Springer-Palgrave-Macmillan.
Curinier, F., McNeil-Willson, R., de Leedes, S., and Abbas, T. (2024) ‘Gendered Islamophobic Securitization and the Headscarf Conundrum in France and the Netherlands’, in Amina Easat-Daas and Irene Zempi (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Gendered Islamophobia, Cham: Springer.
BOOK REVIEWS
Abbas, T. (2025) ‘Contemporary colonialities: Kurds and Kashmiris edited by Dibyesh Anand and Nitasha Kaul’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, published online 11 August.