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»Nicht alle Salafisten sind Terroristen, aber alle uns bekannten islamistischen Terrorverdächtigen haben einen salafistischen Hintergrund.« So beschreiben deutsche Innenpolitiker ein wachsendes Problem: Junge Menschen brechen auf, um in den Krieg nach Syrien oder in den Irak zu ziehen. Manche verüben dort Gräueltaten und rühmen sich damit im Internet. Die meisten bleiben in Deutschland, lehnen Gewalt ab und folgen strengsten Glaubensregeln. Wer sind die Salafisten, was wollen sie, wen bedrohen sie? Dieser Band gibt umfassend Antworten. Renommierte Experten ordnen den Salafismus in die islamische Geschichte sowie in den deutschen Gesellschaftskontext ein und schlagen Strategien für den Umgang mit dem Phänomen vor. Zudem berichten Betroffene über ihre Erfahrungen mit Salafisten

Qur'anic geotheology and other perspectives of Islam -- An emerging Muslim world -- Puritans' view of self and community -- Puritans' perception of unbelievers -- The sanctity of Allah's world -- Toward a theocratic nation -- American's Islam's two communities -- The incommensurability of liberalism and puritan Islam -- Puritans' perceptions of the State of Israel -- Future geographies of Islam

'Ideologies need enemies to thrive, religion does not'. Using the Sahel as a source of five comparative case studies, this volume aims to engage in the painstaking task of disentangling Islam from the political ideologies that have issued from its theologies to fight for governmental power and the transformation of society. While these ideologies tap into sources of religious legitimacy, the author shows that they are fundamentally secular or temporal enterprises, defined by confrontation with other political ideologies-both progressive and liberal-within the arena of nation states. Their objectives are the same as these other ideologies, i.e., to harness political power for changing national societies, and they resort to various methods of persuasion, until they break down into violence. The two driving questions of the book are, whence come these ideologies, and why do they-sometimes-result in violence? Ideologies of Salafi radicalism are at work in the five countries of the Sahel region, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, (Northern) Nigeria and Senegal, but violence has broken out only in Mali and Northern Nigeria. Using a theoretical framework of ideological development and methods of historical analysis, Idrissa traces the emergence of Salafi radicalism in each of these countries as a spark ignited by the shock between concurrent processes of Islamization and colonization in the 1940s.

Introduction / par Bernard Rougier 1. - Première partie : Trajectoires du salafisme : du désert d'Arabie au cyber-espace. - Le salafisme en Arabie Saoudite / par David Commins 25. - L'apport de Muhammad Nasir Al-Din Al-Albani au salafisme contemporain / par Stéphane Lacroix 45. - Le jihad en Afghanistan et l'émergence du salafisme-jihadisme / par Bernard Rougier 65. - Le rôle d'Internet dans la diffusion de la doctrine salafiste / Par Dominique Thomas 87. - Deuxième partie : le salafisme dans l'espace arabe. - La Péninsule 105. - Violence politique en Arabie Saoudite : grandeur et décadence d' "Al-Qaida dans la péninsule arabique" / par Thomas Hegghammer 105. - Koweït : salafismes et rapports au pouvoir / par Carine Lahoud 123. - L'illusion apolitique : adaptations, évolutions et instrumentalisations du salafisme yéménite / par Laurent Bonnefoy 137. - Le Machrek 161. - L'évolution du salafisme en Syrie au XXe siècle / par Arnaud Lenfant 161. - Fatah Al-Islam : un réseau jihadiste au coeur des contradictions libanaises / par Bernard Rougier 179. - Le Maghreb 211. - Les attentats du 16 mai 2003 à Casablanca et l'émergence du salafisme jihadiste / par Abdallah Tourabi 211. - Troisième partie : La dynamique salafiste en France. - Être salafiste en France / par Mohammed Adraoui 231. - La France face au terrorisme islamique : une typologie du salafisme jihadiste / par Samir Amghar 243. - Trajectoires de Salafis français en Égypte / par Romain Caillet 257

Salafism often called 'Wahhabism,' is widely seen as a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that subjugates women, yet growing numbers of young British women, many of them converts or from less conservative Muslim backgrounds, are actively embracing it. With unprecedented access to Salafi women's groups in the UK, Anabel Inge provides an in-depth account of their lives, probing the reasons for their conversion and their subsequent dilemmas and difficulties

On Salafism offers a compelling new understanding of this phenomenon, both its development and contemporary manifestations. Salafism became associated with fundamentalism when the 9/11 Commission used it to explain the terror attacks and has since been connected with the violence of the so-called Islamic State. With this book, Azmi Bishara critically deconstructs claims of continuity between early Islam and modern militancy and makes a counter argument: Salafism is a wholly modern construct informed by specific sociopolitical contexts. Bishara offers a sophisticated account of various movements--such as Wahabbism and Hanbalism--frequently collapsed into simplistic understandings of Salafism. He distinguishes reformist from regressive Salafism, and examines patterns of modernization in the development of contemporary Islamic political movements and associations. In deconstructing the assumptions of linear continuity between traditional and contemporary movements, Bishara details various divergences in both doctrine and context of modern "Salafisms" plural. On Salafism is a crucial read for those interested in Islamism, jihadism, and Middle East politics and history.

Historien et politologue, enseignant et reporter de guerre, spécialiste du monde arabo-musulman, Pierre Piccinin da Prata a couvert les terrains de toutes les révolutions du Printemps arabe. D'avril à septembre 2013, il a été retenu en otage par les Brigades islamistes al-Farouk, avec l'envoyé spécial du quotidien italien La Stampa, Domenico Quirico. Ce sont cinq mois de souffrances, de colère, d'enfermement à travers les villes en ruines et les campagnes ravagées que les auteurs nous livrent dans ce témoignage.

"Since 9/ll, the Jordanian Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi (b. West Bank, 1959) has emerged as one of the most important radical Muslim thinkers alive today. While al-Maqdisi may not be a household name in the West, his influence amongst like-minded Muslims stretches across the world from Jordan, where he lives today, to Southeast Asia. His writings and teachings on Salafi Islam have inspired terrorists from Europe to the Middle East, including Abu Muṣʻab al-Zarqawi, the former leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, and Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden's successor as the head of al-Qaida Central. This groundbreaking book, which is the first comprehensive assessment of al-Maqdisi, his life, ideology, and influence, is based on his extensive writings and those of other jihadis, as well as on interviews that the author conducted with former jihadis, including al-Maqdisi himself. It is a serious and intense work of scholarship that uses this considerable archive to explain and interpret al-Maqdisi's particular brand of Salafism. More broadly, the book offers an alternative, insider perspective on the rise of radical Islam, with a particular focus on Salafi opposition movements in Saudi Arabia and Jordan"--

So often in history, it is ideas that kill ... How did the Islamic State arise? What are the ideas that define it? How does this movement of apocalyptic violence justify its actions? The Mind of the Islamic State offers a condensed and gripping history of political jihadism - from its birth in the 1960s prison writings of Sayyid Qutb all the way to IS's glossy magazine of horror, Dabiq. Along the way Robert Manne considers such terrifying texts as The Management of Savagery and such diabolical figures as al-Zarqawi, who devised the strategy of pitting Sunni against Shia in Iraq, thereby helping to pull the country apart. Manne traces the way ideas and events have intersected to produce the Islamic State, and shows that many in the West have failed to understand what we are dealing with

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.

"Sufis and Salafis in the Contemporary Age explores the dynamics at play between what are usually understood as two very different forms of Islam, namely Sufism and Salafism. Sufism is commonly understood as the peaceful and mystical dimension of Islam whereas Salafism is perceived as strictly pietistic and moralist, and for some it conjures up images of violent manifestations of Islam.Of course these generalisations require more nuanced investigation, and this book provides a number of case studies from around the Islamic world to unpack the intricate relationship between the two. The diversity of the case studies that focus on Islamic groups in India, Iraq, Egypt, Morocco, Turkey and South East Europe reflect the multiplicity of relationships that exist between the Salafis and Sufis. The specific case studies are framed by an introduction that provides essential historical background and definitions of the terms, and also by general studies of the Sufi-Salafi relationship which enable the reader to focus on the large picture. This will be the first book to investigate the relationship between Sufism and Salafism in such a wide fashion, and includes chapters on "traditional" Sufis, as well as from those who consider that Sufism and Salafism are not necessarily contradictory"--

Eine Darstellung der Hintergründe des Nahostkonflikts aus arabischer Perspektive. Rezension Für den früheren Al-Dschasira-Korrespondenten ist der 2. Golfkrieg 1991 der Ausgangspunkt für alle folgenden Entwicklungen im arabischen Raum und der Einfluss des Westens entscheidend für die heutige Situation in Nahost. So weit nichts Neues. Neu ist die explizit arabische Perspektive des Buchs und die sehr persönlich und emotional gefärbte Analyse der Ereignisse vor allem im Irak und Syrien in den letzten 25 Jahren. Ein Hauptaugenmerk richtet Suliman dabei auf Probleme der Berichterstattung in den Medien, die westliche Kriegspropaganda und die Wahl falscher Dialogpartner. Angesichts der Zustände im Nahen Osten und der Position des Westens müsse man von einem 3. Weltkrieg sprechen. Für Suliman zeichnet sich ein Muster hinter all dem Chaos in der Region ab, das er mit zahlreichen Beispielen und seinen - aus westlicher Sicht häufig politisch unkorrekten - Interpretationen herleitet. Ergänzend zu anderen Darstellungen eine interessante Lektüre. (3)