كتاب السلفية الجهادية في الأردن بعد مقتل الزرقاوي بقلم مجموعة مؤلفين.. " When talking about Islamic or Islamist politics in the Arab World,observers are often lacking basic knowledge and facts in order to be able to analyze the plethora of existing groups, with the effect that concepts, perceptions, and the internal structures of those groups are often stereotyped.
in the case of the more radical groups, the temptation is even higher to merely concentrate on the actions, rather than trying to understand the underlying root causes. Therefore, the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) tries, with this third volume of the series of publications
on Islamic Politics in Jordan, to provide seriously needed background information on the Jihadi Salafist Movement in Jordan.
While in the first volume, author Mohammed Abu Rumman had analyzed the Muslim Brotherhood in the Jordanian Parliamentary Elections 2007, the second volume – published in December 2008 – covered the whole spectrum of groups and movements based on Islamic policy concepts which are active in Jordan. Author Hassan Abu Hanieh described the very heterogeneous landscape of positions that Islamic movements
hold on Women & Politics.
In this third volume of the series, Mohammed Abu Rumman and
Hassan Abu Hanieh, both highly acclaimed experts on the Islamic movement in Jordan (and beyond), have joined to analyze the concepts and philosophies, growth and crisis, personalities and internal conflicts of the Jihadi Salafist movement in Jordan.
The authors explain how the movement started and rose, the ascent to “stardom” of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi which climaxed in the Amman hotel bombings on 9 November
2005, bringing to Jordan its own 9/11 trauma. Mohammed Abu Rumman and Hassan Abu Hanieh further discuss the aftermath of the death of Zarqawi in 2006 and its consequences for the Jihadi Salafist movement; they describe the internal struggles and the differences between its leaders.
Far from following the temptations of simple truths, the two experts delve into the depths of the internal structures of the movement, explaining the Jihadi Salafists’ geographical roots, social characteristics and how they were – and to some extent still are – able to mobilize their followers.
Finally, the authors offer some interesting thoughts on potential future scenarios and propose approaches for the state on how to deal with the movement. Again, they explain the framework of the state’s responses to the phenomenon so far before presenting their perspectives and proposals.
We offer this new volume with the hope that it will not only provide interesting reading, but that it can serve scholars and politicians, media and civil society alike with the much needed academic rather than sensationalist background analysis to better understand the Jihadi Salafist movement in Jordan and to develop strategies to deal in a mature way with the phenomenon, treating the roots in society as much as the effects in political life in an integrated approach and taking into consideration all of the multi-facetted aspects described in this publication, rather than limiting oneself to the security approach alone.
