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How European Salafism can make us reflect on a new typology of Salafism?
This article focuses on contemporary Salafism in the European context and how it speaks to the categories Wiktorowicz put forth in his seminal 2006...
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Contextualizing Salafism as Islamic politics
This article examines Salafism as part of what it defines as ‘Islamic politics’, a modern phenomenon of activism and human agency based on an...
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Quietism versus jihadism: the need to rethink contemporary Salafism
This article re-examines the relevance of the typology Quintan Wiktorowicz put forth considering the process of rupture between two of three...
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Salafism in the contemporary age: Wiktorowicz revisited
The article outlines the categories Quintan Wiktorowicz suggested the scholarship should employ to study Salafism and its relationship to the...
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Salafism as Gramscian informed vanguardism
In this study, I offer a categorization of Salafism based on the concept of vanguardism. Vanguardism suggests how Salafis inhabit the political...
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Exploring the fluidity of Egyptian Salafism: from quietism to politics and co-optation
Using the case study of Egypt’s largest Salafi movement, the Alexandrian Da‘wa Salafiyya and its party al-Nur , this article revisits Wiktorowicz’s...
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Salafism: A Brief History
This chapter has a historical focus by highlighting the main religious events and actors whose role is worth mentioning in order to understand the...
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Salafism and Modernity: Beyond Politics
This chapter focuses on lesser-known sociological aspects of Salafism today. Beyond strictly religious, political, and even security considerations,...
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Understanding Salafism: A Few Introductory Remarks
This chapter highlights the need to study Salafism in a dispassionate manner, mobilizing a multidisciplinary approach and asking the key questions...
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Salafism in Germany: Democracy and Resilience
This chapter explores the challenges Salafists present to Western liberal democracy, with a particular emphasis on Germany. Through Jaraba’s detailed...
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Understanding Salafism
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...
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Differing Trajectories of Salafism in India and Pakistan: State Fragility, Identity and Violence
Contemporary research on Jihadist and other violent Muslim organisations places a significant amount of blame on ideological drivers within Islam....
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The Globalization of Salafism
This chapter sheds light on the factors and conditions under which a real “Salafist field” emerged in the second half of the twentieth century on a...
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Defining Salafism: What Is at Stake?
This section offers an etymological and symbolic definition of the vision of Islam and history to which the Salafists refer. The chapter allows us to...
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By Way of Conclusion: Salafism, a Container More Than a Content? Beyond the Essentialization of a Fundamentalism
This attempt at a conclusion asks what paths contemporary Salafism is likely to take, and whether the hypothesis of increasing political and...
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The Fragmentation and Crisis of Salafism: The Saudi Turn and the Rise of New Ideological Contenders
This chapter looks at the fragmentation of Salafism from the late 1970s and particularly through the Gulf crisis of the early 1990s. By showing the...
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Salafism in Context: Understanding the Issue of Ideological and Social Permeability, and the Value Placed on Quietism, Political Participation and Violence
This section focuses on the question of the links between Salafism and jihadism today, and more specifically on the way in which these two currents...
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The Making of a Minority: Subalternity and Minoritisation of Jordanian Salafism
This chapter describes the process whereby the Jordanian regime has endeavoured to make the local Salafi movement into a politico-religious minority....
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What divides Salafis: how local realities overwrite grand typologies in Cambodia’s Salafi movement
Quintan Wiktorowicz’s typology and other methods of classification developed by other scholars from his approach have been the most popular when...
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Salafist Movements in Europe: Between Local and Transnational Mobilizations
In this chapter, the author sheds light on the main sociological features and academic debates on the issue of Salafism in Europe. Through a...