Salafism In The Maghreb

Author : Frederic Wehrey,Anouar Boukhars
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190942434

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Salafism in the Maghreb by Frederic Wehrey,Anouar Boukhars Pdf

The Arab Maghreb-the long stretch of North Africa that expands from Libya to Mauritania-is a vitally important region that impacts the security and politics of Europe, sub-Saharan Africa, and the broader Middle East. As Middle East scholars Frederic Wehrey and Anouar Boukhars show in Salafism in the Maghreb, it is also home to the conservative, literalist interpretation of Islam known as Salafism, which has emerged as a major social and political force. Through extensive interviews and fieldwork, Wehrey and Boukhars examine the many roles and manifestations of Salafism in the Maghreb, looking at the relationship between Salafism and the Maghreb's ruling regimes, as well as competing Islamist currents, increasingly youthful populations, and communal groups like tribes and ethno-linguistic minorities. They pay particular attention to how seemingly immutable Salafi ideology is often shaped by local contexts and opportunities. Informed by rigorous research, deep empathy, and unparalleled access to Salafi adherents, clerics, politicians, and militants, Salafism in the Maghreb offers a definitive account of this important Islamist current.

Author : Frederic Wehrey,Anouar Boukhars
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190942403

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Salafism in the Maghreb by Frederic Wehrey,Anouar Boukhars Pdf

The conservative, literalist Islamist current known as Salafism is often synonymous with extremism and militancy. In fact, Salafism is an adaptive, diverse and dynamic outlook that has emerged as a major social and political force across the Middle East, especially in the countries of the Arab Maghreb--Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya--a vitally important region that impacts the security and politics of Europe, sub-Saharan Africa and the broader Middle East. Through extensive interviews and fieldwork, Middle East scholars Frederic Wehrey and Anouar Boukhars explore the many roles and manifestations of Salafism in the Maghreb, to include its relationship with the Maghreb's ruling regimes, with competing Islamist currents, increasingly youthful populations, and communal groups like tribes and ethno-linguistic minorities. Particular attention is paid to how the boundaries between different Salafi currents--pro-regime "quietists," politically active "politicos" who participate in elections, and militant jihadists like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State, is increasingly blurred, demonstrating how seemingly immutable Salafi ideology is often shaped by local contexts and opportunities. Similarly, the authors show how Maghrebi Salafism is uniquely reflective of each country's political institutions, history, and social makeup and how the much-touted notion of Salafism as a monolithic Saudi or Gulf "export" is undermined by local realities. Informed by rigorous research, deep empathy, and unparalleled access to Salafi adherents, clerics, politicians, and militants, Salafism in the Maghreb offers a definitive account of this important Islamist current that is at once granular and accessible.

Author : Aili Mari Tripp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108425643

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Seeking Legitimacy by Aili Mari Tripp Pdf

A comparative study based on extensive fieldwork, and an original database of gender-based reforms in the Middle East and North Africa, Aili Mari Tripp analyzes why autocratic leaders in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia adopted more extensive women's rights than their Middle Eastern counterparts.

Author : Ronald Lukens-Bull,Mark Woodward
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 303032625X

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Handbook of Contemporary Islam and Muslim Lives by Ronald Lukens-Bull,Mark Woodward Pdf

This is a comprehensive handbook which for the first time provides a general yet detailed discussion of contemporary Islam and various aspects of Muslim lives. It offers a much needed tool for an introduction to the world of contemporary Muslim life and debate, and a link of continuity between the Muslim world and Muslims living and born in the West. The reader gains access to articles by leading scholars who observe phenomena in a post-9/11 context and from a global viewpoint. The topics have been carefully selected to provide the reader with both the necessary general view that a good handbook must offer while presenting details and information, as well as ethnographic examples, to inspire further research and interest. Indeed, each chapter will offer topical reading suggestions from which one can expand the material discussed in the chapter. The approach of the handbook is mainly social-anthropological, but attention is given to other disciplines like history, geography, political studies, as well as gender studies and cultural studies.

Author : Alexander Thurston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108488662

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Jihadists of North Africa and the Sahel by Alexander Thurston Pdf

Offers unique insights into the inner workings of jihadist organisations over the past three decades in North Africa and the Sahel.

Author : Anneli Botha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132796025

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Terrorism in the Maghreb by Anneli Botha Pdf

Terrorism on the African continent is a complex and emotional topic. One of the primary reasons for this is that a historical introspection for any country, or its people, that has been confronted with a conflicting past can only be described as 'sensitive'. In addition to international developments and challenges, domestic circumstances predominately fuel domestic terrorism. It will therefore be a mistake to assess the threat of terrorism in any country in historic isolation. This is particularly true when one tries to assess and understand the 'renewed' threat of terrorism in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia. This monograph will attempt to place the threat and implication of the name change announcement of the Salafist Group for Combat and Preaching (GSPC) to al-Qa'eda in the Land of the Islamic Maghreb (AQLIM) in context, with the primary focus on events in 2007. The name change in itself implied that the original domestic group had transnational ambitions, but what influenced this development and what would the consequences be? Although this development led to immediate and extensive international interest in the Maghreb, it became clear that most assessments focused on the now, without appreciating the historical complexities that ultimately led to this development.

Author : Arkebe Oqubay,Justin Yifu Lin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198830504

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China-Africa and an Economic Transformation by Arkebe Oqubay,Justin Yifu Lin Pdf

This volume considers China-Africa relations in the context of a global division of labour and power, and through the history and experiences of both China and Africa. It examines the core ideas of structural transformation, productive investment and industrialization, international trade, infrastructure development, and financing.

Author : Henri Lauzière
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231540179

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The Making of Salafism by Henri Lauzière Pdf

Some Islamic scholars hold that Salafism is an innovative and rationalist effort at Islamic reform that emerged in the late nineteenth century but gradually disappeared in the mid twentieth. Others argue Salafism is an anti-innovative and antirationalist movement of Islamic purism that dates back to the medieval period yet persists today. Though they contradict each other, both narratives are considered authoritative, making it hard for outsiders to grasp the history of the ideology and its core beliefs. Introducing a third, empirically based genealogy, The Making of Salafism understands the concept as a recent phenomenon projected back onto the past, and it sees its purist evolution as a direct result of decolonization. Henri Lauzière builds his history on the transnational networks of Taqi al-Din al-Hilali (1894–1987), a Moroccan Salafi who, with his associates, participated in the development of Salafism as both a term and a movement. Traveling from Rabat to Mecca, from Calcutta to Berlin, al-Hilali interacted with high-profile Salafi scholars and activists who eventually abandoned Islamic modernism in favor of a more purist approach to Islam. Today, Salafis tend to claim a monopoly on religious truth and freely confront other Muslims on theological and legal issues. Lauzière's pathbreaking history recognizes the social forces behind this purist turn, uncovering the popular origins of what has become a global phenomenon.

Author : Khaled El-Rouayheb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107042964

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Islamic Intellectual History in the Seventeenth Century by Khaled El-Rouayheb Pdf

This book investigates the intellectual currents among Ottoman and North African scholars of the early modern period.

Author : François Burgat,William Dowell
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029103895

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The Islamic Movement in North Africa by François Burgat,William Dowell Pdf

French social scientist Francois Burgat and Time correspondent William Dowell collaborated in 1993 to produce an English translation of Burgat's L'Islamisme au Maghreb. That highly acclaimed work, published in Paris in 1988, was one of the first studies to probe the complexity and diversity of the Islamic movement through interviews with and speeches of the members and founders of the movement -- in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, and Egypt. Burgat and Dowell's edition offered results of new research not included in the 1988 French publication. Now Burgat has added an epilogue, describing the turbulent Algerian situation through the summer of 1996. This new edition also includes a much needed index to help readers locate the many primary sources cited in the book. The Institut de Recherches et d'Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman at the Universite d'Aix-Marseille and the French Ministry of Culture cooperated with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in the translation and production of this seminal resource on contemporary Maghrebi political culture.

Author : Frank Peter,Rafael Ortega
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780857736734

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Islamic Movements of Europe by Frank Peter,Rafael Ortega Pdf

'Islam in Europe' and 'Islamophobia' are subjects of vital global importance which currently preoccupy policy-makers and academics alike. Through the examination of various European Muslim groups and institutions that have branched off from Islamic movements - including the Muslim Brotherhood, Hizb ut-Tahrir and Jama'at-i Islami - this book outlines the configuration of social, political and religious processes that have given rise to new kinds of European Muslim organisations. The authors offer a new perspective on these Muslim groups and seek to reclaim them from the often highly-charged public debates by placing them within the context of their origins as politicised religious movements on the one hand and their ongoing incorporation into European societal structures on the other. They also consider the relationship of these organisations to their 'parent' movements and examine the presence of Islam in European education and higher education institutions. Taking into account the connection between Islamic movements and the perceived surge of 'Islamophobia' in Europe, this book does not debate the question of whether these groups fit into normative or cultural structures of European nation-states, but rather examines how these structures have changed through their interaction with these groups and the growing Muslim population within Europe. It does not consider political Islam as the antithesis to a refined notion of secularism, but as a form of public religion which contributes to the ever-changing structure of Europe's secular regimes. Featuring the work of more than 40 scholars from around the world, this is the comprehensive guide to Islamic movements in Europe, offering original, definitive perspectives on Muslims and Islam in Europe today. It will be essential reading for policy-makers, political commentators and scholars alike.

Author : Clifford Geertz
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1971-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0226285111

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Islam Observed by Clifford Geertz Pdf

"In four brief chapters," writes Clifford Geertz in his preface, "I have attempted both to lay out a general framework for the comparative analysis of religion and to apply it to a study of the development of a supposedly single creed, Islam, in two quite contrasting civilizations, the Indonesian and the Moroccan." Mr. Geertz begins his argument by outlining the problem conceptually and providing an overview of the two countries. He then traces the evolution of their classical religious styles which, with disparate settings and unique histories, produced strikingly different spiritual climates. So in Morocco, the Islamic conception of life came to mean activism, moralism, and intense individuality, while in Indonesia the same concept emphasized aestheticism, inwardness, and the radical dissolution of personality. In order to assess the significance of these interesting developments, Mr. Geertz sets forth a series of theoretical observations concerning the social role of religion.

Author : Amel Boubekeur
Publisher : CEPS
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Algeria
ISBN : 9789290797210

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Political Islam in Algeria by Amel Boubekeur Pdf

Author : Birgit Krawietz,Georges Tamer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110285406

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Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law by Birgit Krawietz,Georges Tamer Pdf

A unique collection of studies, the present volume sheds new light on central themes of Ibn Taymiyya's (661/1263-728/1328) and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's (691/1292-751/1350) thought and the relevance of their ideas to diverse Muslim societies. Investigating their positions in Islamic theology, philosophy and law, the contributions discuss a wide range of subjects, e.g. law and order; the divine compulsion of human beings; the eternity of eschatological punishment; the treatment of Sufi terminology; and the proper Islamic attitude towards Christianity. Notably, a section of the book is dedicated to analyzing Ibn Taymiyya's struggle for and against reason as well as his image as a philosopher in contemporary Islamic thought. Several articles present the influential legacy of both thinkers in shaping an Islamic discourse facing the challenges of modernity. This volume will be especially useful for students and scholars of Islamic studies, philosophy, sociology, theology, and history of ideas.

Author : Mohamed-Ali Adraoui
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031180897

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Understanding Salafism by Mohamed-Ali Adraoui Pdf

This book addresses the issue of one of the most visible and debated currents in contemporary radical Islam. It sheds light on the history, the fundamental principles, and the political and religious translations of Salafism and explains current events involving Salafist actors in an objective and dispassionate manner. The author explains with precision the different contemporary Salafist mobilizations by illustrating them with specific cases while shedding light on the main debates related to this mode of understanding of the Muslim religion, such as its potential role in triggering certain forms of violence, the way to compare it to other fundamentalist versions in other religions, or the way to describe, in terms of social sciences, the main concepts and discourses that can be observed in this current of Islam today.