Salafism in Jordan - Political Islam in a Quietist Community

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

List of contents

Preface; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Notes on transliteration, names and dates; Part I. Ideology: 1. Global Salafi ideology; 2. Quietist Salafi ideology in Jordan; Part II. History: 3. The transnational history of Salafism in Jordan; 4. Fitna: quietist Salafi infighting in Jordan; 5. Quietist Salafism in Jordan after 9/11; Part III. Contestation: 6. Jihadi-Salafis join the fray; 7. The challenge of political Salafism.

About the author

Joas Wagemakers is an Assistant Professor of Islamic and Arabic Studies at Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands. His research focuses mainly on Salafism and particularly Salafi ideology; the Muslim Brotherhood; citizenship, women's rights and rights of the Shi'a in Saudi Arabia; and Hamas. He has published many chapters and articles in these fields as well as several books, including: A Quietist Jihadi: The Ideology and Influence of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi (Cambridge, 2012), Salafisme (2014, co-authored with Martijn de Koning and Carmen Becker) and Islam in verandering: Vroomheid en vertier onder moslims binnen en buiten Nederland (2015, co-edited with Martijn de Koning).

Summary

For students and researchers of Middle Eastern politics and Salafism, Wagemakers explores how and why quietist Salafism in Jordan – through ideological tendencies, foreign developments, internal conflicts, regime involvement, theological challenges and regional turmoil – evolved from an independent movement into a politically domesticated one.

Product details

• Authors: Joas Wagemakers, Joas (Universiteit Utrecht Wagemakers, Wagemakers Joas
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781316615256
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61525-6
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Islam, Jordan, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, RELIGION / Islam / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, Religious and theocratic ideologies, Religious & theocratic ideologies