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Frontmatter --Contents --Acknowledgements --Introduction: 'Thinking the Re-Thinking of the World' as Urgent and Necessary Process --South and North, East and West --Contesting Northern Hegemony in Knowledge-Making in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences --Sovereignty and Ascendancy --Knowledge and Power in Sociology --C. A. Diop's Decolonising Historiography --Decentring the Grand Narrative of the Enlightenment --The Pūrva-Pakṣa of Modern Indian Thought --List of Contributors

The book offers an examination of issues, institutions and actors that have become central to Muslim life in the region. Focusing on leadership, authority, law, gender, media, aesthetics, radicalization and cooperation, it offers insights into processes that reshape power structures and the experience of being Muslim. It makes room for perspectives from the region in an academic world shaped by scholarship mostly from Europe and America.

The book offers an examination of issues, institutions and actors that have become central to Muslim life in the region. Focusing on leadership, authority, law, gender, media, aesthetics, radicalization and cooperation, it offers insights into processes that reshape power structures and the experience of being Muslim. It makes room for perspectives from the region in an academic world shaped by scholarship mostly from Europe and America. parcel of such social conflicts and transformations, its role being neither one of resistance against power nor of guidance towards norms, but rather one of open-ended complicity.

As far too many intellectual histories and theoretical contributions from the 'global South' remain under-explored, this volume works towards redressing such imbalance. Experienced authors, from the regions concerned, along different disciplinary lines, and with a focus on different historical timeframes, sketch out their perspectives of envisaged transformations. This includes specific case studies and reflexive accounts from African, South Asian, and Middle Eastern contexts. Taking a critical stance on the ongoing dominance of Eurocentrism in academia, the authors present their contributions in relation to current decolonial challenges. Hereby, they consider intellectual, practical and structural aspects and dimensions, to mark and build their respective positions. From their particular vantage points of (trans)disciplinary and transregional engagement, they sketch out potential pathways for addressing the unfinished business of conceptual decolonization. The specific individual positionalities of the contributors, which are shaped by location and regional perspective as much as in disciplinary, biographical, linguistic, religious, and other terms, are hereby kept in view. Drawing on their significant experiences and insights gained in both the global north and global south, the contributors offer original and innovative models of engagement and theorizing frames that seek to restore and critically engage with intellectual practices from particular regions and transregional contexts in Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East.

Cette contribution traite de la révolution salafi en Afrique de l'Ouest. Inspirée par un mouvement qui a commencé il y a quelques décennies, elle est portée par des acteurs, des institutions et des pratiques dont l'objectif est de réformer l'islam. Attentif à l'importance du contexte, cet article attire l'attention sur la diversité des appropriations du salafisme et problématise les positions prises par ses promoteurs en relation avec l'État, et en particulier avec son système éducatif laïc. En mettant l'accent sur le rôle du prédicateur, il s'agit de montrer que le salafisme a eu un impact déterminant non seulement sur le champ religieux, mais aussi sur la sphère publique. De par sa critique sociale et politique, le salafisme s'est ainsi imposé comme un défi majeur pour les sociétés ouest-africaines dont il envisage de changer l'économie morale et politique, y compris à travers le djihadisme.

This paper discusses the ways in which a revolution inspired by Islam emerged in the few decades in West Africa, mainly through the intervention of Salafi actors, institutions, and reform practices. Salafism as an Islamic discourse became popular in the region at the end of the 20th century as Islam acquired a renewed interest and became a potent discourse, restructuring from within, formulating new political agendas and mobilising for social change and radical reconfigurations of social order. The paper calls for attention to context, noting the varieties of Salafism, while problematising the views promoters of this Islamic trend have expressed in relation to state institutions, in particular the secular school system. Emphasising the role of the Salafi preacher, the paper argues that Salafism has had a crucial impact not only on the religious, but also on the public spheres. A social and political critique, Salafism proves a major challenge while it promotes alternative moral and political orders including a Jihadi regime.