About
Iman is an LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methods at the Department of Methodology. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Department of Government at LSE. She was previously a Research and Outreach Associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge and Postdoctoral Research Associate at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Her research employs ethnographic and participatory research methodologies to study transnational Islamic movements and Islamic activism in the UK. Her work examines how forms of religious practice, organisation, and activism shape, and are shaped by political, social, and cultural contexts in the West. With a particular emphasis on gender, her research also explores how marginalised identities intersect with and inform evolving forms of religious expression and engagement.
Research
Publications:
Dawood, I. (2025). Moving out of Salafism: Muslim Women and the Development of a Pious Feminist Consciousness. Gender & Society, 39(2), 257-284.
Dawood, I. (2024). Exclusion-politicization: Salafism, democracy, and counterpublic politics in the UK. Democratization, 32(3), 684–705.
Dawood, I. (2022). Beyond Conversion: Doubts, Contradictions, and Challenges in Salafi Circles in London. in P. Anderson & J. Hagreaves (Eds). Muslims in the UK and Europe VI, pp. 93-106.
Dawood, I. (2020) ‘Who is a ‘Salafi’? Salafism and the Politics of Labelling in the UK. Journal of Muslims in Europe, Volume 9, Issue 2, 2020.