Current Trends in Islamist Ideology

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Current Trends in Islamist Ideology

AK Party Supporters in front of the poster of then-Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and then-Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (L) in Ankara, Turkey on August 27, 2014. (Murat Kaynak/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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AK Party Supporters in front of the poster of then-Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and then-Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (L) in Ankara, Turkey on August 27, 2014. (Murat Kaynak/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Michael A. Reynolds
Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University
Michael A. Reynolds
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan holds a Koran at the opening ceremony of the Selehaddin Eyyubi airport on May 26, 2015, in eastern city of Hakkari. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan holds a Koran at the opening ceremony of the Selehaddin Eyyubi airport on May 26, 2015, in eastern city of Hakkari. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Svante E. Cornell
Director of the American Foreign Policy Council’s Central Asia-Caucasus Institute
Svante E. Cornell
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Members of the Egyptian Muslim brotherhood gather in front the party's headquarters in Cairo on March 22, 2013. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Members of the Egyptian Muslim brotherhood gather in front the party's headquarters in Cairo on March 22, 2013. (KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)
Samuel Tadros
Former Senior Fellow
Samuel Tadros
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Outside a police station in Al-Hawari district of Benghazi, Libya on May 2, 2014. (Mohammed Elshaiky/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
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Outside a police station in Al-Hawari district of Benghazi, Libya on May 2, 2014. (Mohammed Elshaiky/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)
Aaron Y. Zelin
Richard Borow Fellow, Washington Institute
Aaron Y. Zelin
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Members of the jihadist group Al-Nusra Front fire homemade mortar rounds during fighting with government forces on February 8, 2014 in the Syrian village of Aziza, on the southern outskirts of Aleppo. (BARAA AL-HALABI/AFP/Getty Images)
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Members of the jihadist group Al-Nusra Front fire homemade mortar rounds during fighting with government forces on February 8, 2014 in the Syrian village of Aziza, on the southern outskirts of Aleppo. (BARAA AL-HALABI/AFP/Getty Images)
Kirk H. Sowell
Principal, Uticensis Risk Services
Kirk H. Sowell
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