L’islamisme en face

Burgat, François

doi:10.3917/dec.burga.2007.01

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“…As for the external reasons, they were confronted with shrinking opportunities for long-distance activism in the Muslim world as a result of pressures from both their home countries and their host country. For the home countries, state repression peaked in North Africa and the Middle East in the 1980s, forcing Islamist actors underground or into exile and closing the door for grassroots activism in their homelands (Burgat, 2007;Roy, 1994). Opportunities for returning home decreased while political Islam faced a global period of decline.…”

Section: Shifting Political Agendas and Engagement For A French Islammentioning

confidence: 99%

Pan‐Islamic ideals and national loyalties: Competing attachments amongst early Muslim activists in France

Dazey

2020

Nations and Nationalism

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Islamist movements are often considered the epitomes of transnational movements; however, little is known about the concrete workings of their transnational ambitions. In investigating the evolution of Muslim activists in France from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, this article shows that their embrace of pan‐Islamic ideals initially conflicted with strong investment in (Arab) homeland politics. Later on, their engagement with a French Islam signalled less the emergence of a de‐territorialised, de‐culturalised Islamic identity than it did the assertion of new nationally bounded (French) attachments. Overall, the analysis sheds light on a stimulating puzzle regarding cosmopolitanism: the persistence of national forms of identification in movements that aspire to bypass national affiliations.

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Section: Shifting Political Agendas and Engagement For A French Islammentioning

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Pan‐Islamic ideals and national loyalties: Competing attachments amongst early Muslim activists in France

Dazey

2020

Nations and Nationalism

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“…The category 'Islamic feminist' is often put forward as developing an 'endogenous' form of feminism (Mir-Hosseini 2000). Despite its limitations, the merit of this approach | 49 | is its capacity to break past the modern/tradition conceptual framework and place the rise of political Islam within processes of modernisation (Göle 1993;Mir-Hosseini 2000), alongside other studies on Islamism (Burgat 1996(Burgat , 2005. Sami Zubaida's critique (2011) of the use of the adjective 'Islamic' highlights the simplistic use of both 'Islam' and the 'West' in contemporary scholarship about the Middle East.…”

Section: On Muslimness Islam(s) and Feminismsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this ideal, women's roles within the family are primarily to bear children and manage the household. Sallama's modern understanding of issues related to gender and Islam represents a common trend among Shi'a and Sunni Islamists; such an understanding is representative of the transnational Islamist discourses that emerged in the 1970s in the Middle East (Burgat 1996;Göle 1993;Hatem 1998Hatem , 1993. However, her argumentation is also very common among non-Islamist women activists when they are asked about issues related to gender and Islam.…”

Section: Islamist Activistsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminisms in Iraq: Beyond the Religious and Secular Divide

Ali¹

2019

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This article explores feminisms and women's activisms in today's Iraq and highlights the heterogeneity of both their religious and secular expressions in analysing them in relation to each other rather than as distinct. I argue that not only do we need to go beyond the Islamist/secular dichotomy but we need to analyse what's in-between these categories. In order to understand their in-betweenness, Iraqi women's activisms and feminisms have to be examined in their imbricated and complex social, economic and political contexts both discursive and material. I start by refl ecting on conceptual considerations regarding the relationships between feminisms, Muslimness, and Islam(s) and examining notions of piety and morality in contemporary Iraq. Then I explore the context and nature of women's social and political activisms in Baghdad, Erbil, and Sulaymaniyah and provide an ethnographically informed examination of the different trends of feminisms and women's political activisms in Iraq and the ways these trends overlap. In doing so I introduce an alternative way of understanding the too often argued secular/Islamist opposition and analyse the relevance and meaning of 'Islamic/Muslim feminisms' in the Iraqi context.

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“…Many authors agree that structural factors are responsible for the explosion of violence in the country (Carlier 1995;Etienne 1998;Stora 2001). Others focus on the rise of Islamism (Boukra 2009;Khelladi 1995;Burgat 1995;Boumezbar 1990;Labat 1995;Tawil 1998), and many discuss socio-economic conditions (Charef 1994;Zaatar 2004;Martinez 1998;Henni 2000;Ouaissa 2010). However, there are very few books on the specific form of extreme violence that caused and translated into massacres.…”

Section: From Democratisation To Political Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Challenging Fieldwork Researching Large-Scale Massacres in Algeria

Yazbeck

2017

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This paper is based on my research experience in an area that was the scene of a massacre: Bentalha, a hamlet, 30 km away from the Algerian capital Algiers. This massacre took place on September 22-23, 1997 during the “black decade” (1991-2001), a period of the civil war during which 150,000 people were killed, 7,000[i] disappeared and 1 million internally displaced. After a background section on the history of this conflict, the paper describes the setting where my fieldwork took place. This article discusses my experience on the field as well as the emotions such as frustration, fear, anxiety and vicarious traumatization that I experienced in the process. It also addresses questions of self-reflexivity, positionality and the insider/outsider status. I am writing from the perspective of an Algerian sociologist trained in France, yet my experience in doing fieldwork “at home” can be useful to other scholars who do or plan to do fieldwork in dangerous places in their countries or societies.Notes[i]. It is very hard to obtain an accurate estimate of the total number of victims. However, the Algerian President, Abdelaziz Bouteflika declared during a press conference in Paris on June 2000 that the number of victims was 150,000.

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L’islamisme en face

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Pan‐Islamic ideals and national loyalties: Competing attachments amongst early Muslim activists in France

Pan‐Islamic ideals and national loyalties: Competing attachments amongst early Muslim activists in France

Feminisms in Iraq: Beyond the Religious and Secular Divide

Challenging Fieldwork Researching Large-Scale Massacres in Algeria

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