Will McCants

William McCants
Born1975 (age 48–49)[1]
Other namesWilliam Faizi McCants[1]
Academic background
Alma materPrinceton University[1]
Doctoral advisorMichael Cook[1]
Websitehttp://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]

  1. ^ a b c d McCants, William F. (November 27, 2011). Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam. Princeton University Press. pp. copyright, acknowledgments. ISBN 978-0-691-15148-9.
  2. ^ Will McCants (30 June 2011). "Don't Be Evil". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on 7 July 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-28.