Joas Wagemakers

A wide-ranging account of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan and its ideological and behavioural development since its founding in 1945.

The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan

Since 9/11, the Jordanian Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi (b. West Bank, 1959) has emerged as one of the most important radical Muslim thinkers alive today. While al-Maqdisi may not be a household name in the West, his influence amongst like-minded Muslims stretches across the world from Jordan - where he lives today - to Southeast Asia. His writings and teachings on Salafi Islam have inspired terrorists from Europe to the Middle East, including Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, the former leader of al-Qa'ida in Iraq, and Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden's successor as the head of al-Qa'ida Central. This groundbreaking book, which is the first comprehensive assessment of al-Maqdisi, his life, ideology, and influence, is based on his extensive writings and those of other jihadis, as well as on interviews that the author conducted with (former) jihadis, including al-Maqdisi himself. It is a serious and intense work of scholarship that uses this considerable archive to explain and interpret al-Maqdisi's particular brand of Salafism. More broadly, the book offers an alternative, insider perspective on the rise of radical Islam, with a particular focus on Salafi opposition movements in Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

The Ideology and Influence of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi

A Quietist Jihadi

A groundbreaking assessment of the life and ideology of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, one of the most influential radical Muslim thinkers alive today.

The Ideology and Influence of Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi

Stéphane A. Dudoignon

Farian Sabahi

Thomas Pierret

Sabrina Mervin

Mariam Abou Zahab

Bayram Balci

Roel Meijer

Rainer Brunner

Jean-François Legrain

Joseph Alagha

Reidar Visser

Altay Goyushov

Brecht De Smet

Before the immense changes of the 2011 'Arab Spring', it was Sunni-Shia sectarian rivalry that preoccupied most political analyses of the Middle East. This book presents wide-ranging and up-to-date research that sheds light on the political, sociological and ideological processes that are affecting the dynamics within the Shia and Sunni worlds.

Doctrine, Transnationalism, Intellectuals and the Media

The Dynamics of Sunni-Shia Relationships

C. H. M. Versteegh

Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort

This volume provides new insights into the transmission of the textual sources of Islam and combines this with the dynamics of these scriptures by paying close attention to how believers interpret and apply them.

Festschrift Harald Motzki

Salafism in Jordan debunks stereotypes and presents the diversity of Salafism on a range of political and ideological issues.

Political Islam in a Quietist Community

Salafism in Jordan

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