International audienceUntil recently, Côte d'Ivoire mostly appeared as marginal and subaltern on West Africa's Islamic scene. This was due in part to Islam's minority status -- no longer a demographic but still a political reality -- and the lack of visibility of Sufi orders. By contrast, since the 1990s Ivorian Muslim society and its distinctive "reformist" religious culture, represented by a "modern" élite in Abidjan, are becoming increasingly influential in the subregion and beyond. This article explores the socioeconomic, political, and cultural processes behind this transformation as well as the shifting interface between the local and global in Ivoirian Islam. Specific attention is devoted to international migration to Côte d'Ivoire, ...