1st Edition

Islamism and Social Movements in North Africa, the Sahel and Beyond Transregional and Local Perspectives

Edited By Aurelie Campana, Cédric Jourde Copyright 2018
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

As North African, Middle Eastern, and Sahelian societies adapt to the post-Arab Spring era and the rise of violence across the area, various groups find in Islam an answer to the challenges of the era. This book explores how Islamist social movements, Sufi brotherhoods, and Jihadi armed groups, in their great diversity, elaborate their social networks, and recruit sympathizers and militants in... Read more

Introduction - Islamism and social movements in North Africa, the Sahel and Beyond: transregional and local perspectives Aurélie Campana and Cédric Jourde The Constrained Institutionalization of Diverging Islamist Strategies: The Jihadis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Salafis between two Aborted Egyptian Revolutions Jerome Drevon The Egyptian Muslim Sisterhood between Violence, Activism and Leadership Erika Biagini Disillusioned militancy: the crisis of militancy and variables of disengagement of the European Muslim Brotherhood Samir Amghar and Fall Khadiyatoulah Between social contention and takfirism: the evolution of the Salafi-jihadi movement in Tunisia Fabio Merone Contention, Violence and Stalemate in Post-War Libya George Frederick Willcoxon Alliances of convenience: assessing the dynamics of the Malian insurgency Adib Bencherif and Aurélie Campana Betrayal, Heresy, Exile and Mystical Attacks: The Cost of Changing Islamic Affiliation in an Ethnicized Society (Mauritania and Senegal) Cédric Jourde Senegal’s Arabic literates: from transnational education to national linguistic and political activism Marie Brossier

Biography

Aurélie Campana is Full Professor at Université Laval, Canada. Her research focuses on the diffusion of violence across movements and borders in the North Caucasus and the Sahel.



Cédric Jourde is Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He specializes on the politics of ethnicity and Islam in the Sahel.