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The Politics of Islam in the Sahel - Between Persuasion and Violence (Paperback)
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The Politics of Islam in the Sahel - Between Persuasion and Violence (Paperback)
Series: Europa Regional Perspectives
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'Ideologies need enemies to thrive, religion does not'. Using the
Sahel as a source of five comparative case studies, this volume
aims to engage in the painstaking task of disentangling Islam from
the political ideologies that have issued from its theologies to
fight for governmental power and the transformation of society.
While these ideologies tap into sources of religious legitimacy,
the author shows that they are fundamentally secular or temporal
enterprises, defined by confrontation with other political
ideologies-both progressive and liberal-within the arena of nation
states. Their objectives are the same as these other ideologies,
i.e., to harness political power for changing national societies,
and they resort to various methods of persuasion, until they break
down into violence. The two driving questions of the book are,
whence come these ideologies, and why do they-sometimes-result in
violence? Ideologies of Salafi radicalism are at work in the five
countries of the Sahel region, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger,
(Northern) Nigeria and Senegal, but violence has broken out only in
Mali and Northern Nigeria. Using a theoretical framework of
ideological development and methods of historical analysis, Idrissa
traces the emergence of Salafi radicalism in each of these
countries as a spark ignited by the shock between concurrent
processes of Islamization and colonization in the 1940s. However,
while the spark eventually ignited a blaze in Mali and Nigeria, it
has only led to milder political heat in Niger and Senegal and has
had no burning effect at all in Burkina Faso. By meticulously
examining the development of Salafi radicalism ideologies over time
in connection with developments in national politics in each of the
countries, Idrissa arrives at compelling conclusions about these
divergent outcomes. Given the many similarities between the
countries studied, these divergences show, in particular, that
history, the behaviour of state leaders and national sociologies
matter-against assumptions of 'natural' contradictions between
religion (Islam) and secularism or democracy. This volume offers a
new perspective in discussions on ideology, which remains-as is
shown here-the independent variable of many key contemporary
political processes, either hidden in plain sight or disguised in a
religious garb.
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