Joas Wagemakers is Associate Professor of Islamic and Arabic Studies at Utrecht University. He has published extensively on Islamist ideology and Islamic movements, including A Quietist Jihadi: The Ideology of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi (2012) and Salafism in Jordan: Political Islam in a Quietist Community (2016), which won the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in 2017.

'Joas Wagemakers' latest book is not only an excellent history of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, it is also an innovative theoretical work, in the sense that he has successfully used Michael Freeden's theory of ideologies to give a compelling analysis of the different currents within the Muslim Brotherhood and its route towards moderation.' Roel Meijer, Radboud University

• Introduction; Part I. Context: 1. Sunni Islamic political thought until the twentieth century; 2. The early Muslim Brotherhood's political thought; 3. The Muslim Brotherhood's behaviour in the Jordanian context; Part II. Divisions: 4. Ideological divisions on the state; 5. Ideological divisions on political participation; 6. Ideological unity on societal rights and freedoms; Conclusion.

Joas Wagemakers is Associate Professor of Islamic and Arabic Studies at Utrecht University. He has published extensively on Islamist ideology and Islamic movements, including A Quietist Jihadi: The Ideology of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi (2012) and Salafism in Jordan: Political Islam in a Quietist Community (2016), which won the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in 2017.

'Joas Wagemakers' latest book is not only an excellent history of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, it is also an innovative theoretical work, in the sense that he has successfully used Michael Freeden's theory of ideologies to give a compelling analysis of the different currents within the Muslim Brotherhood and its route towards moderation.' Roel Meijer, Radboud University

• Introduction; Part I. Context: 1. Sunni Islamic political thought until the twentieth century; 2. The early Muslim Brotherhood's political thought; 3. The Muslim Brotherhood's behaviour in the Jordanian context; Part II. Divisions: 4. Ideological divisions on the state; 5. Ideological divisions on political participation; 6. Ideological unity on societal rights and freedoms; Conclusion.

Joas Wagemakers is Associate Professor of Islamic and Arabic Studies at Utrecht University. He has published extensively on Islamist ideology and Islamic movements, including A Quietist Jihadi: The Ideology of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi (2012) and Salafism in Jordan: Political Islam in a Quietist Community (2016), which won the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize in 2017.

'Joas Wagemakers' latest book is not only an excellent history of the Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood, it is also an innovative theoretical work, in the sense that he has successfully used Michael Freeden's theory of ideologies to give a compelling analysis of the different currents within the Muslim Brotherhood and its route towards moderation.' Roel Meijer, Radboud University

• Introduction; Part I. Context: 1. Sunni Islamic political thought until the twentieth century; 2. The early Muslim Brotherhood's political thought; 3. The Muslim Brotherhood's behaviour in the Jordanian context; Part II. Divisions: 4. Ideological divisions on the state; 5. Ideological divisions on political participation; 6. Ideological unity on societal rights and freedoms; Conclusion.