Understanding Salafism
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Understanding Salafism
（Sciences po series in international relations and political economy）
Palgrave Macmillan, c2022
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 101-109)
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
1. Understanding Salafism: A Few Introductory Remarks
2. Defining Salafism: What is at Stake?
Salafism: An Attempt at a Definition
Understanding Salafism: The Need to Reflect in Terms of Mental Topography
3. Salafism: A Brief History
4. The Basics of the Salafist Ethic
The Cleric, or the Cornerstone of the Salafist Meaning System
Literalism or Scripturalism?
5. The Globalization of Salafism
The Statization of Salafism with the Birth and the Rise of Modern Saudi Arabia
The Saudization of Salafism in the 20th Century: When Saudi Arabia Speaks for Islam and the Umma
A Two-Level State Salafism: Clerics and Kings
6. The Fragmentation and Crisis of Salafism: The Saudi Turn and the Rise of New Ideological Contenders
From Consensus to Crisis of Legitimacy: The Fragmentation and Explosion of the Global Salafist Field around the Question of the Sa'ud: The Challenge of Islamism, Jihadism and Democratization
From an Offensive Salafism to a Defensive form of Salafism
The Emergence of Salafism-Jihadism and the Crisis of Saudi Religious and Political Legitimacy
Since the Arab Revolutions: Saudi Arabia between Positive and Negative Centrality
The Rise of a 'Soft Salafism': Religious Reformation in Saudi Arabia?
7. Salafism and Modernity: Beyond Politics
Crisis of Traditional Authority and Divorce between Culture and Religion
Islam of Globalization? When Fundamentalism is Modern
The Salafist Economic Ethics: Salvation by Worldly Success?
Salafism and Migration: The Case of Hijra
The Hijra in Salafism: The Fulfilment of "Allegiance and Disavowel"
The Internal Hijra: Between Symbolic Withdrawal and the Premises of Departure
The Short-Term Hijra: A First Step Towards a Final Break
The Final Hijra: Completion of the Rupture?
8. Understanding Past and Today Jihadism
From Jihad to Jihadism
Armed Jihad between Historical Exception and Today Systemization
The Contemporary Origins of Jihadism
The Core Questions of Jihadism
Who is the Enemy?
Who must Lead Jihad and Jihadism?
The Role of Jihadist Endeavour in the Definition of Being a Muslim
How to Strategize and Lead Jihadism Militarily?
Joining a Foreign Jihadist Movement
Terrorist Radicalization
9. Salafism in Context: Understanding the Issue of Ideological and Social Permeability, and the Value Places on Quietism, Political Participation and Violence
Salafism and Violence: Is Political Change Desirable? If Yes, How to Achieve It?
Beyond the Fragmentation of Salafism: Is Jihadism Getting Autonomized?
Salafism and Jihadism: A Common Doctrinal Heritage
Jihadist Differentiation from Salafism
Empowerment of Jihadism: Violence without Religious Socialization
Apocalypticism of Islamic State Jihadism
Post-Islamic State Juhadism
10. By Way of Conclusion: Salafism as a Vector: A Containers More than a Content? Beyond the Essentialization of a Fundamentalism
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