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In the early 1990s, democratization in Niger meant a political reform detached from the military rule, but also safe from religious influence. The adoption of the principle of a radical secularism (laicite) sought, first, the autonomy of the political sphere from the religious one, and second, the submission of religious authority to the political one. The consecration of this principle led to the criticism of Muslim public actors who argued that such a principle was violating the religious identity of Niger's society. This paper discusses the difficulty to separate the realm of politics from that of religion as Islamic organizations and Muslim actors have stepped into the political arena, articulating various religion-inspired discourses and seeking the conversion of Niger's politics to Islam. Nowadays, this activism led to a rearrangement of the state's position in relation to religiosity and its role in the public domain. This case of ambiguous secularism, I suggest, might be one of a reinterpretation not only of secularism, but of democratization itself. Adapted from the source document.

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. This volume builds on a lecture series held at ZMO in the winter 2019-2020

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.

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 too many intellectual histories from the 'global South' remain under-explored, this book aims to redress such imbalance. Authors from the region sketch out their perspectives of transformations. This includes case studies and accounts from Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East. Taking a critical stance on the ongoing dominance of Eurocentrism in academia, the authors present their contributions in relation to current decolonial challenges.

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.

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.

"Cet essai revient sur la question de l'islam contemporain dans ses rapports multiples à la modernité en Afrique. Il expose quelques éléments d'analyse des dynamiques de réforme de l'islam dans un contexte africain à partir des années 1990. Il prend les récents développements relatifs aux religiosités musulmanes au Niger comme objet de réflexion et s'interroge sur les habits théoriques et les catégories conceptuelles qui nous servent à comprendre ce phénomène social, politique, mais aussi philosophique. Mettant en selle une anthropologie de l'islam, sa suggestion méthodologique met en exergue l'importance d'une alliance entre le spéculatif et l'empirique pour une analyse pertinente des discours et des pratiques religieuses contemporaines. Ainsi, il voudrait ouvrir un champ d'investigation non seulement aux philosophes et anthropologues, mais à tous ceux qui s'intéressent aux dynamiques africaines et souhaitent les théoriser."--Page 4 of cover

Abstract: This volume examines religiosity on university campuses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on both individuals and organized groups, the contributions open a window onto how religion becomes a factor, affects social interactions, is experienced and mobilized by various actors. It brings together case studies from various disciplinary backgrounds (anthropology, sociology, history, religious studies, literature) and theoretical orientations to illustrate the significance of religiosity in recent developments on university campuses. It pays a particular attention to religion-informed activism and contributes a fresh analysis of processes that are shaping both the experience of being student and the university campus as a moral space. Last but not least, it sheds light onto the ways in which the campus becomes a site of a reformulation of both religiosity and sociality.

Neue muslimische Stimmen in der afrikanischen Sahelzone. - Alexander Thurston. - Die sezessionistische und die islamische Forderung im Nördlichen Mali. - George Klute. - Jugend, Politik und Religion in Niger - Die Wahlen im Februar 2016. - Abdoulaye Sounaye. - Die Sufi-Orden in der senegalesischen Politik. - Rüdiger Seesemann. - Politische Mobilisierung und das Erbe der Sklaverei in Mauretanien. - Christine Hardung. - Traditionaler Koranunterricht als nachhaltige Entwicklungshilfe? - Britta Frede. - Dokumentation - ein Interview mit Fatimetou Mint Meydah.- Britta Frede. - Handel in der Sahara - Alltägliche Sorgen - internationale Ängste. - Judith Scheele. - Von der Front zum Staat - die Frente POLISARIO und die DARS. - Axel Goldau. - Libyen unter und nach Qadhafi. - Bernhard Schmid. - Bestellter Terror. - Jeremy Keenan. - Sudan,Südsudan - 5 Jahre nach der Teilung. - Roman Deckert