The following are books, journal articles, book chapters, and book reviews published since 2024. For a fuller list, visit Google Scholar.
BOOKS, SHORT BOOKS, SPECIAL ISSUES, AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
Abbas, T. (ed. in chief, 2028), The Encyclopedia of Religion, Power and Global Transformation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier (under contract).
Abbas, T. (2028) The Laboratory City: Birmingham, Race and the Making of British Sociology, under consideration.
Abbas, T. (2028) Suspect Class: Race, Islam and the making of Britain’s Muslim working class, under consideration.
Abbas, T. (2028) The Bent Ladder: British Muslims and the Broken Promise of Getting On, under consideration.
Abbas, T. (2028) Manufactured Anxiety: Islamophobia, Popular Extremism, and the Politics of Racial Disposability, under consideration.
Khattab, N. and Abbas, T. (2028) The Terms of Exchange: Conditional privilege, blocked capital and ethnoreligious labour market inequality in three liberal states, under review.
Abbas, T. (2027) The Geopolitics of Belonging: Race, Religion and the Crisis of Legitimacy in the Post-Western World, under review.
Abbas, T. (2027) The Political Architecture of Intolerance: Racialisation and the Global North, Palgrave Macmillan (in press).
Abbas, T. (2027) Radical Belonging: How identity and exclusion shape extremism in Northwestern Europe, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press (in press, March).
Abbas, T., M. Tamimova, I. Trebeschi, and P. Wabnitz, (2027) The Securitisation of Sacred Spaces and the Paradox of Protection, London and New York: Routledge, (in press, February).
Abbas, T. (2026) Radicalisation: a critical and integrative perspective, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
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, ‘Manufactured Cohesion: Racial Capitalism, Prevent, and the Sophisticated Containment of British Muslims, State Crime, forthcoming.
Abbas, T., 2026, ‘Do Anti-Gender Attitudes Travel Together? Gender Roles, LGBTQ+ Rights, and Pluralism among Majority and Muslim Publics in Western Europe’, Social Politics, forthcoming.
Abbas, T., 2026, ‘The Progressive Left in England: A Multi-Dimensional Values Approach to Multiculturalism and National Belonging’, British Politics, forthcoming.
Abbas, T., 2026, ‘Competing Grievance Pathways to Political Violence: A Mixed-Methods, Multi-Cohort Analysis of Minority and Majority Youth in Europe’, European Journal of Criminology, forthcoming.
Abbas, T., 2026, ‘Symbiotic Insecurity: The Relational Racialisation of Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Contemporary Europe’, European Journal of International Security, forthcoming.
Abbas, T., 2026, ‘Who Reacts to Populist Power? Education, Information Environments and Immigration Tolerance in 26 European Countries’, Social Science Quarterly, published online 4 November.
Abbas, T., 2026, ‘Institutional counter-insurgency: The academy as a security actor’ (Interventions short essay), Critical Studies on Security, in the special issue guest-edited by Chris Rossdale and Angie Hirst on We are all genocide scholars now: Palestine, Gaza, and the failures of security studies, published online 21October.
Abbas, T. and M. Tamimova, 2026, ‘Triangulated Brokers: Imams, Securitisation, and the Performance of Moderation in Belgium, Germany, Spain, and Italy’, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, published online 19 October.
Abbas, T., 2026, ‘The conversion of capital across fields: Hysteresis and the integration paradox among British Muslims’, Sociology, published online 11 October.
Abbas, T. and F. van Mulkom, 2026, ‘The European Divide: Composition, Returns, and the Divergence of Attitudes Towards Immigrant Acceptance, 2002–2020’, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, published online 16 September.
Abbas, T., 2026, ‘From Grievance to Endorsement: Political Alienation as a Conditional Catalyst, Not a Cause, of Support for Political Violence’, Psychology of Violence, published online 14 September.
Abbas, T., M. Tamimova, I. Trebeschi, and P. Wabnitz, 2026, ‘The Paradox of Threat: Vernacular Security Governance Among Jewish and Muslim Minorities in Four European States, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, published online 9 September.
Abbas, T., 2026, ‘Structural Exclusion and Health Inequalities among British Muslims: Dual Erosion of Institutional Trust and Community Capital’, Wellbeing, Space & Society, published online 8 September.
Abbas, T., 2026, ‘The halal social sphere: Muslim moral markets as counter-governmentality’, Religion State and Society, in the special issue guest-edited by Iman Dawood, Guy Eyre, and Frederic Volpi on Rethinking Transnational Islamic Movements: Politics, Hybridity, and Change, published online 25 August.
Abbas, T., 2026, ‘Defensive Secularism Reconsidered: Religion, Doctrinal Concern, and Anti-Muslim Sentiment in Contemporary Britain’, Contemporary Social Science, published online 21 August.
Abbas, T., 2026, ‘The Silence That Could Not Hold: Foreign Policy and the Fall of Keir Starmer’, The Political Quarterly, published online 19 August.
Bell, R. and Abbas, T., 2026, ”They don’t want us here”: reworking neighbourhood nationalism in post-Southport England’, Ethnicities, published online 13 August.
Abbas, T., 2026, ‘Perceptions of Place: Neighbourhood Social Tension, Marginalisation, and the Endorsement of Violence in Four European Countries’, Social Sciences, 15(8), 543, published online 12 August.
Abbas, T., 2026, ‘The Two Faces of Discontent: Institutional Dissatisfaction, Group Status Threat, and the Conditional Mechanisms of Cultural Backlash in Northwest Europe’, European Politics and Society, published online 24 July.
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, published online 21 July.
Abbas, T. 2026, ‘The Imperial Boomerang: Colonial Genealogies and the Global Securitisation of Muslims’, Critical Studies on Security, published online 9 July.
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., 2026, ‘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 dynamics 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 Terrorism, 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.