Aurelie Campana - Islamism and Social Movements in North Africa, the Sahel and Beyond

Islamism and Social Movements in North Africa, the Sahel and Beyond

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 complicated times. The book innovates by transcending regional boundaries, bringing together specialists of the three aforementioned regions. First, it highlights how geographically dispersed religious groups define themselves as members of a larger, universal Umma, while evolving in deeply embedded local contexts. Second, its contributors prioritize in-depth fieldwork research, offering fine-grained, original insights into the manifold mobilization of Islamist-inspired social movements in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Mali, Senegal, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, and Western Europe. The book sheds light on the tense debates and competition taking place amongst the different trends composing the Islamist galaxy and between other groups that also claim an Islamic legitimacy, including Sufi brotherhoods and ethnic and/or tribal groups as well.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Mediterranean Politics.

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

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

Routledge Studies in Mediterranean Politics

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The Mediterranean Politics series takes an inter-disciplinary approach which, while generally focused on the disciplines of politics and international relations, also encompasses economics, human geography, sociology, and religious studies, in order to shed light on the interconnectedness of polities and societies in the Mediterranean region. The series takes the study of Mediterranean politics as a focal point to examine the global and transnational linkages between the Mediterranean area and the wider world. Showcasing cutting edge new research on regional, transnational and comparative politics, it provides a forum for the discussion of Mediterranean politics with special reference to the interaction between European and Middle Eastern & North African countries.

For a full list of titles: https://www.routledge.com/middleeaststudies/series/RSMP

The Arab Uprisings and Foreign Assistance

Edited by Federica Bicchi, Benoit Challand and Steven Heydemann

Edited by Richard Youngs

Transition and constraint

Carmen Geha

A Decentring Research Agenda

Edited by Daniela Huber and Lorenzo Kamel

Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Yemen

Edited by Muriel Asseburg and Heiko Wimmen

Implementing the ENP in Tunisia and Morocco before and after the Arab Uprisings

Iole Fontana

Transregional and Local Perspectives

Edited by Aurlie Campana and Cdric Jourde

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The chapters in this book were originally published in Mediterranean Politics, volume 22, issue 1 (March 2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

Introduction

Islamism and social movements in North Africa, the Sahel and Beyond: transregional and local perspectives

Aurlie Campana and Cdric Jourde

Mediterranean Politics, volume 22, issue 1 (March 2017), pp. 115

Chapter 1

The Constrained Institutionalization of Diverging Islamist Strategies: The Jihadis, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the Salafis between Two Aborted Egyptian Revolutions

Jerome Drevon

Mediterranean Politics, volume 22, issue 1 (March 2017), pp. 1634

Chapter 2

The Egyptian Muslim Sisterhood between Violence, Activism and Leadership

Erika Biagini

Mediterranean Politics, volume 22, issue 1 (March 2017), pp. 3553

Chapter 3

Disillusioned militancy: the crisis of militancy and variables of disengagement of the European Muslim Brotherhood

Samir Amghar and Fall Khadiyatoulah

Mediterranean Politics, volume 22, issue 1 (March 2017), pp. 5470

Chapter 4

Between social contention and takfirism: the evolution of the Salafi-jihadi movement in Tunisia

Fabio Merone

Mediterranean Politics, volume 22, issue 1 (March 2017), pp. 7190