Flagg Miller is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Davis. Trained as a linguistic anthropologist, his first book, The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audio-cassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen (Harvard University Press, 2007), examined how Yemenis have used traditional poetry and new media technologies to envision a productive relationship between tribalism and progressive Muslim reform.

The story of how [Bin Laden] came to be the west's ultimate 'ascetic adversary' and how the US expanded its security footprint into the Islamic world, needs to be told. Miller has succeeded.

Flagg Miller is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Davis. Trained as a linguistic anthropologist, his first book, The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audio-cassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen (Harvard University Press, 2007), examined how Yemenis have used traditional poetry and new media technologies to envision a productive relationship between tribalism and progressive Muslim reform.

The story of how [Bin Laden] came to be the west's ultimate 'ascetic adversary' and how the US expanded its security footprint into the Islamic world, needs to be told. Miller has succeeded.

Flagg Miller is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of California, Davis. Trained as a linguistic anthropologist, his first book, The Moral Resonance of Arab Media: Audio-cassette Poetry and Culture in Yemen (Harvard University Press, 2007), examined how Yemenis have used traditional poetry and new media technologies to envision a productive relationship between tribalism and progressive Muslim reform.

The story of how [Bin Laden] came to be the west's ultimate 'ascetic adversary' and how the US expanded its security footprint into the Islamic world, needs to be told. Miller has succeeded.