Studying Salafism is important not just for analyzing jihadist movements or clarifying twentieth-century Muslim history, but also for better understanding…
Alexander Thurston
Alexander Thurston is a visiting assistant professor in the African Studies program at Georgetown University. He received his PhD from Northwestern University in 2013. He has conducted field research in Nigeria, Senegal, and Morocco. In 2013-2014, he was an International Affairs Fellow with the Council on Foreign Relations.
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The Islamic State’s intellectual genealogy (and what you need to read to understand it)
April 20, 2015
Graeme Wood’s “What ISIS Really Wants,” published in The Atlantic in February 2015, sparked a massive debate. The controversy concerns…