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About the Author<br />
Cole Bunzel is a PhD candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies<br />
at Princeton University, where his research focuses on the history of the<br />
Wahhabi movement in Saudi Arabia. An expert on jihadi thought and ideology,<br />
he is the author of From Paper State to Caliphate: The Ideology of the Islamic<br />
State (Brookings Institution, March 2015). He has previously held government<br />
and think tank positions related to Syria and Iraq in Washington, DC,<br />
and has lived in Syria and Saudi Arabia. He holds an MA in international<br />
relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies<br />
and an AB in Near Eastern Studies from Princeton University.<br />
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This paper was published through a generous research grant from the Henry<br />
Luce Foundation.<br />
The author would like to thank Frederic Wehrey for commissioning this paper<br />
and Bernard Haykel for offering comments on an earlier draft. He is also<br />
grateful to the participants of an October 2015 workshop on sectarianism in<br />
the Middle East, held at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in<br />
Washington, DC, for their comments on a presentation of this research.<br />
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