Will McCants

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William McCants
Born1975 (age 4950) [1]
Other namesWilliam Faizi McCants [1]
Academic background
Alma mater Princeton University [1]
Doctoral advisor Michael Cook [1]
Website http://www.jihadica.com/

Will McCants (born 1975), also known as William Faizi McCants, is a scholar of militant Islamism. He is a fellow at the Center for Middle East Policy and director of the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution. An adjunct faculty member at Johns Hopkins University, he is a former senior advisor on violent extremism to the U.S. State Department's Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism. Founder and co-editor of the website Jihadica, he is also a former research analyst for CNA, a non-profit organization that encompasses the Center for Naval Analyses and the Institute for Public Research. [2]

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Career

Described by William Maclean, the security correspondent for Reuters, as "a leading scholar of militant Islamism", [3] McCants is author of a 2011 book titled Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam, based on his doctoral research at Princeton University.

McCants is co-editor of Jihadica.com, which The Economist described as "a respected website". [4]

Books

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 McCants, William F. (November 27, 2011). Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam. Princeton University Press. pp. copyright, acknowledgments. ISBN   978-0-691-15148-9.
  2. Will McCants (30 June 2011). "Don't Be Evil". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
  3. William Maclean (20 July 2011). "Militants plan al Qaeda cartoon for kids, monitors say". Reuters. Archived from the original on 23 September 2012. Retrieved 2011-07-28.
  4. 1 2 "Inside Account: The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State (Book Review)". The Economist. 26 September 2015. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  5. "Rethinking Political Islam (review)". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved April 24, 2020.