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Aboullouz’s the Salafi movements in Morocco (1971–2004) between theory and practice

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Erschienen in: Contemporary Islam | Ausgabe 2/2011

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This is a review of a recently published book on Salafiyya in Morocco. The author of the book, Abdelhakim Aboullouz, has conducted a socio-anthropological research on two Salafi movements in Marrakech. With my background knowledge of the topic, I have tried to read Aboullouz’s book with a critical perspective: can Salafiyya be defined by only two movements? How far has Aboullouz been loyal to his socio-anthropological approach?

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Tozi (2009, p. 29). The books I quote are written in Arabic, so I provide the titles in English and all translation in the text is my own.

Quoted in Ramadan al-Bouti (1988, p. 9). My translation.

For a detailed analysis of the different meanings of Salafiyya, see Mohamed al-Kettani (1989).

Noureddine Derouache, ‘At-tabsir bi-bou’di Assalafiya Ani At-takfir,’ (Showing how Salafiya is far from charging others with infidelity) in As-sabil (The Way), no 43, December 2008, p. 26.

Ramadan (2002, p. 136). My translation.

So there are reliable and unreliable Salaf after all, which makes of the first trait, textualism, a debatable generalization.

Ironically, Aboullouz’s supervisor, Tozi, also enumerates the qualities of Aboullouz and his book in the Preface.

The term ‘fundamentalist’ here has nothing of the derogatory connotations proposed by some critics. The term refers to the mastery of the Islamic fundamentals, which a Muslim prides himself/herself on. See Gabriel Marranci (2009) for a rich discussion of fundamentalism, especially chapters 2 and 3.

It is surprising that any religious place in Marrakech could be invaded, as it were, by the Salafists. The reader is, hence, in doubt as to Aboullouz’s exact conception of Salafiyya.

Aboullouz is ironically unaware that quoting El-Maghraoui undermines his comment that the lack of organization empowers the Salafi leader. See Aboullouz 2009, p. 327.

Indeed, the title of the book should be The Salafi Movements in Marrakech as the major focus is only on two Salafi movements in Marrakech and not in Morocco.

Aboullouz, A. (2009). The Salafi movements in Morocco (1971–2004): a socio-anthropological study. Beirut: Markaz Dirasat al-Wahda al-‘Arabiya.

Al-Bouti, S. R. (1988). Salafiyya, a blessed phase in time, not an Islamic doctrine. Dar Al-Fikr: Beirut.

Al-Kettani, M. (1989). Salafiyya: A problematic of concept and practice. In The Salafi movements in the Maghrebine countries. Asila.

Jad’an, F. (1998). Salafiyya: its limits and evolution. Alam Al-fikr, 26(3/4), 62.

Marranci, G. (2008). The anthropology of Islam. Berg: Oxford and New York.

Marranci, G. (2009). Understanding muslim identity: Rethinking fundamentalism. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.CrossRef

Ramadan, T. (2002). Aux sources du renouveau musulman. Editions Tawhid: Lyon.

Tozi, M. (2009). Preface. In A. Aboullouz (Ed.), The Salafi movements in Morocco (1971–2004): A socio-anthropological study. Beirut: Studies of Arab Unity Center.

Varisco, D. M. (2005). Islam observed: The rhetoric of anthropological representation. Palgrave Macmillan: New York.

Titel: Aboullouz’s the Salafi movements in Morocco (1971–2004) between theory and practice
verfasst von: Said Mentak
Publikationsdatum: 01.07.2011
Verlag: Springer Netherlands
Erschienen in: Contemporary Islam / Ausgabe 2/2011
Print ISSN: 1872-0218
Elektronische ISSN: 1872-0226
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-011-0154-y

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