With the rise of Jihadist groups like Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab, the theory-oriented exploration of the causes and dynamics of militant Islamist mobilisation in sub-Saharan Africa has become an important research endeavour. Existing explanatory frameworks highlight the causal relevance of multi-faceted Muslim grievances, pre-existing histories of non-Islamist political violence, and a lack of institutional regulation of Salafism in the first decades after independence. Examining the deviant case of Zanzibar, the article investigates why, despite the fact that all these conditions have been present on the islands, local Salafi activism has so far not gravitated towards Jihadism. It shows that the deeply entrenched Zanzibari two-party conflic...
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Religiously inspired violence is a global phenomenon and connects to transnational narrati...
In the 1990s, political liberalisation opened up space for Islamist activism across Africa. While so...
While jihadism appears to be on the rise in Africa, the explanations of violent extremist groups’ ca...
The transnational terrorism of the twenty-first century feeds on local and regional conflicts, witho...
This paper examines three violent Islamist groups in Africa - Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)...
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In contemporary times, the most pressing issues threatening the tranquility and global stability, pa...
This article analyses the surge of political conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa linked to radical Islam...
This article discusses the genesis of Boko Haram as an offshoot of the Nigerian Salafi movement. In ...
This study investigates the use of violence by Salafi-Oriented Movement Organisations. Drawing most...
This paper discusses the ways in which a revolution inspired by Islam emerged in the few decades in ...
This research project addresses the question of how violent groups emerge and act under specific ide...
Insurgency has gained prominence in Africa. It is usually associated with marginalisation, poverty, ...
International audienceThis article examines recent developments of Salafism in Côte d'Ivoire by expl...
Religiously inspired violence is a global phenomenon and connects to transnational narrati...
In the 1990s, political liberalisation opened up space for Islamist activism across Africa. While so...
While jihadism appears to be on the rise in Africa, the explanations of violent extremist groups’ ca...
The transnational terrorism of the twenty-first century feeds on local and regional conflicts, witho...
This paper examines three violent Islamist groups in Africa - Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM)...
This article examines how a moderate Sufi Islam in Africa has increasingly become sidelined by more ...
This article covers – firstly and generally speaking – the gradual process of confrontation between ...
In contemporary times, the most pressing issues threatening the tranquility and global stability, pa...
This article analyses the surge of political conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa linked to radical Islam...
This article discusses the genesis of Boko Haram as an offshoot of the Nigerian Salafi movement. In ...
This study investigates the use of violence by Salafi-Oriented Movement Organisations. Drawing most...
This paper discusses the ways in which a revolution inspired by Islam emerged in the few decades in ...
This research project addresses the question of how violent groups emerge and act under specific ide...
Insurgency has gained prominence in Africa. It is usually associated with marginalisation, poverty, ...