Islamist Parties and Political Normalization in the Muslim World

List of Contributors

Contributors Wenling Chan is an Associate Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Julie Chernov Hwang teaches in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Goucher College. She is author of Peaceful Islamist Mobilization in the Muslim World: What Went Right, which examines state-Islamist group relations in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Turkey. In 2011, she was Luce Southeast Asia Fellow at the East West Center in Washington , D.C. Her articles have been published in Asian Survey, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Southeast Asia Research, and Asia-Pacific Issues. She is also the author of book chapters on disengagement of Indonesian jihadists, Islamic education in Malaysia and Indonesia, and mainstreaming of political Islam in Indonesia. Her current research examines the processes of radicalization and disengagement of Indonesian jihadis from Jemaah Islamiyah, KOMPAK, and other militant groups. Joseph Chinyong Liow is Associate Dean and Associate Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technical University , Singapore. His research interests lie in Muslim politics in Malaysia and Thailand. His most recent publications include Piety and Politics: Islamism in Contemporary Malaysia and Islam, Education, and Reform in Southern Thailand. His articles have been published in Asian Survey, Third World Quarterly, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia Research, Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Journal of Islamic Studies, Harvard Asia-Pacific Review, and NBR Analysis. Driss Maghraoui is Associate Professor of History and International Relations at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco. His publications have appeared in international academic journals and edited volumes in Morocco, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He is co-editor of Reforms in 222 Contributors the Arab World: The Experience of Morocco, Mediterranean Politics, and editor of Revisiting the Colonial Past in Morocco. He is currently working on a book project on The Predicament of Democracy in Morocco. Quinn Mecham teaches political science at Brigham Young University and is a research associate at Middlebury College. His research interests include political Islam, identity politics, civil conflict, electoral behavior, and democratic development. His publications include articles on Islamist parties in Turkey, the development of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and comparative Islamist movements. His forthcoming book examines the comparative processes of political mobilization by religious actors in the Muslim world from 1970 to 2010. He has done ethnographic work on Islamist movements and parties across the Muslim world, including Morocco, Bahrain, and Senegal. He served as Franklin Fellow on the policy planning staff of the U.S. Department of State in 2009–10, and has been a visiting scholar at George Washington University and an Academy Scholar at Harvard University. He received MA and PhD degrees in Political Science from Stanford University. Ali Riaz is Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics and Government at Illinois State University. He has previously taught at universities in South Carolina, England, and Bangladesh. His recent publications are Faithful Education: Madrassahs in South Asia, Islamist Militancy in Bangladesh : A Complex Web, and edited volumes Religion and Politics in South Asia, Political Islam and Governance in Bangladesh. He earned the ISU College of Arts and Sciences first Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarly Achievement in 2004 and Outstanding College Researcher Award in 2005. He also received the Pi Sigma Alpha Excellence in Teaching Award in 2006. In 2012 he was designated University Professor based on his international reputation. Murat Somer is Associate Professor of International Relations at Koç University, Istanbul. His research addresses questions of democratization, ethnic conflict, religious politics and secularism, elite beliefs and values, public and private polarization, the Kurdish question, and political Islam. His writings have appeared in book volumes and journals including Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Comparative Political Studies, Middle East Journal, and Third World Quarterly. Stacey Philbrick Yadav teaches political science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where she also directs the Middle East Studies program. She is author of the forthcoming Islamists and the State: Legitimacy and Contributors 223 Institutions in Yemen and Lebanon and several journal articles focusing on cross-ideological opposition alliances in both countries, based on field research in 2003–2009. She has published collaborative work on the role of women as both objects and subjects of Islamist politics in Yemen and is a regular contributor to Middle East Report and...