ملخص الجهاز:
In part, Salafism symbolizes a varied scholarly attempt to disentangle long-simmering ques tions about conservative forms of Muslim activism, most of which concern the ethics of how Muslims are to conduct their lives, perceive their individual and group identities, and understand the pious order of political and social arrangements.
The contributors argue that these tensions have produced a whole range of consequences for primarily Muslim communities, such as the increase of identity-powered debates among Salafi groups in the Arabian Peninsula, the wider Middle East and North Africa, and elsewhere.
For instance Bernard Haykel, Stéphane Lacroix, and Joas Wagemakers deconstruct Salafism’s meanings and deduce that both its uniting features and causes of tensions among groups rest on three main cornerstones: assorted readings of theology, the Salafi clergy’s approach to and conception of law, and its varied understanding of political authority.
Noah Salomon’s chapter on Sudan discusses the country’s most influential Salafi scholars and their impact on the overall perception of pious politics in Islam by directly confronting “traditional” Is lamist groups.
The third part addresses the issues already debated within security studies: the link between Salafism and violence, the various nuances among violent Salafi groups, the overarching tensions, and the use of the concept of jihad.
The chapters debate jihadism, takfirism, and Salafism as interconnected but nevertheless different and full of tension that hinges, much like other points of intra-Salafi contention, on conflicting interpretations of mobilization strate gies and doctrinal differences between the leading figures of violent Salafi groups.