Salafism Goes Global

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Part One: The reference group Chapter I Genealogical socialization The sociology of French quietist Salafism Typology The Minhaj Salafi: an "anti-system" actor on the French Islamic scene The 'Alim or the Maker of Salafist meaning The Da'wa Salafiyya as exclusive Islamic paradigm The sociology of the Salafist sphere: rupture as effect of historical preaching on a global and local level The Salafi habitus: convert the epistemic rupture in the social arena Call to order: the Salafi as guardian of dogma Orthopraxy The Noah syndrome Resistance and persistence A stranger among his contemporaries Chapter II Pyramidal socialization Salafi "militant apoliticism" and the control of French Islam's political agenda The quest for status through economic independence Social rupture: between elitist religious practices and cultural desocialization A counterculture in retreat and in collision with "the dominant culture": the full-body veil An elitist proselytizing: example of a conversion in a mosque attended by Salafis Muslim worship, "restorationist" practices with elitist effect: the example of prayer Chapter III Immunological socialization Internal hijra: between psychological withdrawal and the first fruits of departure Rupture in time and space: the logic of "religious rationalization" and attendance at mosques Protection against an Islamophobic society: the example of media discourse about Islam The Hijra to the "Land of Islam": leaving, rebirth...and fulfillment Egypt or the example of the "Erasmus hijra": Go East, learn...and return Algeria or the example of the "hijra of origin": Go East...and stay? Part Two: The membership group Chapter IV Filtered socialization The suburbs as symbolic space for differentiation and emergence of "counter worlds" The suburb: a space for forming an antagonistic habitus Militant apoliticism: between an "anti-imperialist" ethic, disdain for engagement, and unfulfilled politicization, a relationship to endogenous politics? The "Maghrebians": inertia more than a return to the religious The Turks or the "all included" religious socialization: a "turnkey" Islam The converts or the melting pot" socialization The lifecycle of quietist Salafism: the generational effect of this religious career Chapter V Imaginary socialization A new age of Orientalism? The Orientalism of the French Salafis: to begin with, a "Western" view of the Orient An Orientalism "of the interior," or how to reify the Orient when you are from it "Reverse Orientalism": an Orient better than the West Constructing a West as a negative mirror of the Orient, or Salafi Occidentalism "The invention of tradition": reifying the Saudi politico-religious power The Salafist sphere's harmonious character as construction Chapter VI Postmodern socialization Salafi socialization or the time of religious tribes: atomization and forming a new organic link of an esthetic nature Thriving on the crisis of Islamism: the Minhaj Salafi as post-Islamist mode Islamism versus Minhaj Salafi: militant ethic of world transformation against the neo-fundamentalist post-Islamism of withdrawal The quietist and legitimist Salafi viaticum: "an Islamism for leaving Islamism"? Conclusion