Quintan Wiktorowicz

"Quintan Wiktorowicz "


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Dr. Quintan Wiktorowicz
Professor of International Studies
Rhodes Collegewiktorowiczq@rhodes.com
2000 North ParkwayDepartment of International Studies, Rhodes College
Memphis, TN 38112-1690(t)
901-843-3609(f)
901-843-3371
Areas of Expertise - Muslim Politics

The Jihadi Salafis Name Of The Enemy by Quintan Wiktorowicz (2004)

• Dr. Wiktorowicz is the J.S. Seidman Research Fellow and assistant professor of International Studies at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
• He is author of The Management of Islamic Activism: Salafis, the Muslim Brotherhood and State Power in Jordan (2001); Global Jihad:
• Understanding September 11; Radical Islam Rising: Al-Muhajiroun and High Risk Activism(forthcoming); and numerous articles and book chapters on Islamic movements in the Middle East and Europe.
• He has recently published an edited book titled Islamic Activism: A Social Movement Theory Approach. His current research examines Islamic fundamentalist debates about issues related to Jihad and violence.

Articles in Middle East Policy

• Killing in the Name of Islam: Al-Qaeda's Justification for September 11Volume X, Summer 2003, Number 2
• EXCERPT: The New Global Threat:Transnational Salafis and JihadVolume VIII, December 2001, Number 4

THE SALAFI MOVEMENT IN JORDAN
Quintan Wiktorowicz 1

Abstract

Since the 1970s, the Salafi movement in Jordan has grown substantially. Today, Salafis are ubiquitous in every major city in the kingdom, and Salafi bookshops, lessons, and activities are common.

• The purpose of the movement is to institute religious behavior and practices that capture the purity of Islam, as understood by the salaf (early Companions of the Prophet).
• Salafis believe that because the salaf learned about Islam directly from the Prophet or those who knew him, they commanded a pure understanding of the religion.
• All decisions in life must therefore be based upon evidence from the Qur[superset or implies]an and sunna, as recorded in authentic sayings (had[horizontal bar]iths) by the salaf. In instances where particular actions or behaviors were not sanctioned by the original sources of Islam, they are rejected as “not Muslim.”
• Those who strictly adhere to this religious understanding are considered Salafis.1
  
• Footnotes
  
• 1 Quintan Wiktorowicz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, Penn. 17257, USA.

Original Source @ The Journals of Cambridige

• Quintan Wiktorowicz Radical Islam Rising: Muslim Extremism in the WestCanadian Journal of Sociology Online March-April 2006. Quintan Wiktorowicz (the Pdf)
• The theory of recruitmentQuintan Wiktorowicz, Department of International Studies, Rhodes College. INTRODUCTION ... Theory Approach, edited by Quintan Wiktorowicz. Bloomington:
• Conceptualizing Islamic ActivismQUINTAN WIKTOROWICZ. 3 4. I S I M N E W S L E T T E R 1 4 / J U N E 2 0 0 4 ... 2. Mohammed M. Hafez and Quintan Wiktorowicz, "Violence as Contention in the ...http://www.isim.nl/files/newsl_14/newsl_14-34.pdf