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Eyyüp Yılmaz

Eyyup Yilmaz, (Eyyüp Yılmaz) is a doctoral candidate in sociology at Loyola University Chicago, where he is writing his dissertation on secularism in American Islam. His main areas of research are the sociology of religion, with a particular focus on Islam, political sociology, and social theory.

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Can Democracy Think Beyond the West? Islam, Orientalism, and the Limits of Reaction

July 8, 2026

Eyyup Yilmaz, (Loyola University) discusses the nature of debates surrounding Islam and democracy. Starting from a lecture by Ernst Renan, he shows how both Muslim... Read more.