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4 - The State as Demobilizer of Activist Salafism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2021

Sebastian Elischer
Sebastian Elischer
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University of Florida
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The chapter analyses the evolution of state-Salafi relations in Niger, Chad, and Uganda between the late 1980s and today. These three countries demobilized political and jihadi Salafism with the help of the organizational gatekeepers that these countries had created in the 1970s. Although the organizational gatekeepers experienced institutional change, they remained in place and undercut activist Salafism.

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historical institutionalismstate-islamic relationsSalafismNigerChadUgandainformal institutionsorganizational gatekeeperspath-dependency
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Salafism and Political Order in Africa , pp. 98 - 123
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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