About Will McCants
Born 1975. Will McCants is a historian, political scientist and opinion journalist.
Career Described by William Maclean, the security correspondent for Reuters, as "a leading scholar of militant Islamism", McCants is author of a 2011 book titled Founding Gods, Inventing Nations: Conquest and Culture Myths from Antiquity to Islam, based on his doctoral research at Princeton University.
McCants is co-editor of Jihadica.com, which The Economist described as "a respected website".
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Will McCants was born on 31 May 1975.
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Will McCants is a historian, political scientist and opinion journalist.
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