![Syria's Sufi Tahleela Band performs during the third annual Sufi Festival at the Royal Cultural Center in Amman October 12, 2010. Arab and international Sufi groups are taking part in the one week event. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY) - RTXTCZH](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/10/Sufi%20Dance.jpg/Sufi%20Dance.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=_hiQ4D6h)
Mohammad Abu Rumman is a researcher at the Center for Strategic Studies at the University of Jordan and writes for the Jordanian daily al-Ghad. He has published many books, most recently The Salafists and the Arab Spring and The Islamic Solution in Jordan.
![Syria's Sufi Tahleela Band performs during the third annual Sufi Festival at the Royal Cultural Center in Amman October 12, 2010. Arab and international Sufi groups are taking part in the one week event. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (JORDAN - Tags: ENTERTAINMENT SOCIETY) - RTXTCZH](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/10/Sufi%20Dance.jpg/Sufi%20Dance.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=_hiQ4D6h)
![Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood leader Hammam Saed (R) speaks during a news conference with the Jordan's Islamic Action Front Party (IAF) in Amman March 26, 2011. The IAF called for the resignation of Jordan's Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit and to resolve the Gendarmerie, after the violence that took place on Friday during the sit-in protest organized by a group calling themselves the "Youth of March 24 Movement". REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTR2KFM2](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/07/1-RTR2KFM2.jpg/1-RTR2KFM2.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=Ng3o_SUu)
Mohammad Abu Rumman
![Jordan's King Abdullah looks on during the opening of the Arab League summit in Doha March 26, 2013. A summit of Arab heads of state opened in the Qatari capital Doha on Tuesday expected to focus on the war in Syria as well as on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah (QATAR - Tags: POLITICS ROYALS) - RTXXXQQ](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header/public/almpics/2013/05/RTXXXQQ.jpg/RTXXXQQ.jpg?h=2d235432&itok=Yej2g8q4)
Mohammad Abu Rumman