Will McCants explained

William McCants
Othernames:	William Faizi McCants^[1]
Alma Mater:	Princeton University
Doctoral Advisor:	Michael Cook
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]

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".

Books

• Book: McCants, William . Founding gods, inventing nations: Conquest and culture myths from antiquity to Islam . Princeton University Press . Princeton . 2012 . 978-0-691-15148-9 . 757398573.
• Book: McCants, William . The ISIS apocalypse: The history, strategy, and doomsday vision of the Islamic State . St. Martin's Press . New York . 2015 . 978-1-250-08090-5 . 904081714. ^[4]
• Book: McCants, William . The believer: How an introvert with a passion for religion and soccer became Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State . The Brookings Institution . Washington, DC . 2015 . 978-0-8157-2859-7 . 920465986.
• Book: Hamid . Shadi . Shadi Hamid . McCants. William . Rethinking political Islam . Oxford University Press . New York, NY, United States of America . 2017 . 978-0-19-064919-7 . 960276884. ^[5]

External links

• Jihadica

Notes and References

1. Book: McCants. William F.. Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam. November 27, 2011. Princeton University Press. 978-0-691-15148-9. copyright,acknowledgments.
2. Web site: Don't Be Evil. 30 June 2011. Foreign Policy. Will McCants. 2011-07-28. https://web.archive.org/web/20110707010139/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/06/30/dont_be_evil?page=0,1. 7 July 2011.
3. Web site: Militants plan al Qaeda cartoon for kids, monitors say. https://web.archive.org/web/20120923173505/http://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFTRE76J58820110720. dead. 23 September 2012. Reuters. William Maclean. 20 July 2011. 2011-07-28.
4. News: Inside Account: The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State (Book Review). 4 October 2015. The Economist. 26 September 2015.
5. Web site: Rethinking Political Islam (review). Publishers Weekly. April 24, 2020.