Roel Meijer trained as an Arabist and is Senior Lecturer in the History of the Middle East, Radboud University, Netherlands.He also heads a team at the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, that is building an archive on social movements in the Middle East and Islamist publications on the Internet.

The first work of its kind on Salafism as a global phenomenon, this is an impressive collection of studies that question the received wisdom about the movement as much as they reveal the diversity of its religious and political motivations.

Roel Meijer trained as an Arabist and is Senior Lecturer in the History of the Middle East, Radboud University, Netherlands.He also heads a team at the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, that is building an archive on social movements in the Middle East and Islamist publications on the Internet.

The first work of its kind on Salafism as a global phenomenon, this is an impressive collection of studies that question the received wisdom about the movement as much as they reveal the diversity of its religious and political motivations.

Roel Meijer trained as an Arabist and is Senior Lecturer in the History of the Middle East, Radboud University, Netherlands.He also heads a team at the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam, that is building an archive on social movements in the Middle East and Islamist publications on the Internet.

The first work of its kind on Salafism as a global phenomenon, this is an impressive collection of studies that question the received wisdom about the movement as much as they reveal the diversity of its religious and political motivations.