Joas Wagemakers is an associate professor of Islamic and Arabic Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands, who specialises in the intellectual history of modern Islam. His research focusses on Salafism and Islamism, particularly the ideological and historical sides of these phenomena. He has published extensively on these topics, including A Quietist Jihadi: The Ideology and Influence of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012); Salafism in Jordan: Political Islam in a Quietist Community (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016); The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020 (forthcoming).
