Johannes J.G. Jansen

Johannes "Hans" J. G. Jansen (Amsterdam, 1942) is the leading scholar of contemporary Islam in the Netherlands.Fact|date=August 2008

Jansen is a graduate of the University of Amsterdam, his doctorate in Arabic is from the University of Leiden. He has worked in Egypt. He is Professor of Modern Islamic Thought at the University of Utrecht.

He is a regular newspaper columnist and frequent media commentator.

Publications

Books (Many other books are not yet available in English):

* "The Neglected Duty: The Creed of Sadat’s Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East" (New York: Macmillan, 1986)
* "The Dual Nature of Islamic Fundamentalism" (London: Hurst & Company, 1997)