Dr. Jaan Islam is a political theorist who specializes in decolonial theory and Islamic jurisprudence. He completed his PhD on premodern conceptions of Divine sovereignty at the University of Edinburgh and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford. Dr Islam’s recent works include Islam and the State in Ibn Taymiyya: Translation and Analysis (Routledge, 2022) and “A Jihadi Critique of the Modern State” published in Political Theory.