Bureaucratizing Islam: Morocco and the War on Terror

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How have states in the Middle East and North Africa responded to the War on Terror? While much scholarship has focused on terrorism in the region, there is need for critical studies of Middle Eastern states' counter-terrorism policies. This book addresses that need by investigating Morocco's unique approach to counter-terrorism: the bureaucratization of religion. Morocco's strategy is unique in the degree to which it relies on reforms that seek to make the country's religious institutions into tools for rewarding loyalty and discouraging dissent from religious elites. Through these measures they have limited opposition through an enduring form of institutional control, accommodating some of the country's most virulent critics. This book will be of great use to researchers and scholars of Middle Eastern politics, and it will also appeal to those policymakers interested in security studies and counter-terrorism policies.

Ann Marie Wainscott is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Miami University. In 2017, she will serve as the American Academy of Religion/Luce Fellow in Religion and International Affairs at the State Department, and will be placed in the Office of Religion and Global Affairs as a counterterrorism specialist. She has previously been named a Boren Fellow and a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellow. She speaks French and Arabic. Her work has appeared in the Journal of North African Studies.