Bureaucratizing Islam: Morocco and the War on Terror

288 Pages·2017·11.549 MB·English

by  Ann Marie Wainscott

Bureaucratizing Islam
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 a need for critical studies of Middle Eastern states’
counterterrorismpolicies.Thisbookaddressesthatneedbyinvestigating
Morocco’s approach to counterterrorism: the bureaucratization of reli-
gion. Morocco’s strategy is unique in the degree to which it relies on
reformsthatseektomakethecountry’sreligiousinstitutionsintotoolsfor
spreadingthecountry’s“moderate”interpretationofIslamandrewarding
loyaltyanddiscouragingdissentfromreligiouselites.Withthesemeasures
they have limited opposition through an enduring form of institutional
control,accommodatingsomeofthecountry’smostvirulentcritics.This
bookwillbeofgreatusetoresearchersandscholarsofMiddleEasternpol-
itics,and it will also appeal to those policy makers interested in security
studiesandcounterterrorismpolicies.
ann marie wainscott is Assistant Professor of Political Science at
Miami University. In 2017 she served as the American Academy of
Religion/Luce Fellow in Religion and International Affairs at the United
States Institute of Peace.She has previously been named a Boren Fellow
andaForeignLanguageandAreaStudiesFellow.ShespeaksFrenchand
Arabic.HerworkhasappearedintheJournalofNorthAfricanStudies.

Bureaucratizing Islam
Morocco and the War on Terror
ann marie wainscott
MiamiUniversity,Ohio
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Contents
Preface pageix
Acknowledgements xi
TransliterationNotes xiii
1 Introduction:JoiningtheWaronTerror 1
2 MiddleEasternStateResponsestotheWaronTerror 31
PartI ReshapingIslam
3 MoroccanIslamintheTwenty-FirstCentury 70
4 AnatomyofaReligiousBureaucracy 97
PartII ReshapingtheState
5 GenderedReformsin“Moderate”Morocco 135
6 DeployingReligiousPolicythroughPublicEducation 158
7 ControllingCredentialsinHigherIslamicEducation 180
8 ExportingMoroccanIslam:AReligiousForeignPolicy 207
Conclusion:Morocco,theUnitedStates,andtheProblemof
Terrorism 237
Bibliography 242
Index 266
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