"Just Admit it Man, You're a Spy!" Fieldwork Explorations into the Notion of Salafi "Oppositionality"

This article addresses two related problems in the current ethnographic study of Salafism. First, it draws attention to the lack of positionality exhibited by many commentators on Salafism; second, and more crucially, it highlights the reluctance of scholars to engage with what is here labelled Sala...

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Main Author: Gauvain, Richard 1970- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Equinox [2018]
In: Fieldwork in religion
Year: 2018, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 203-230
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Non-Muslim / Salafīyah / Field-research
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BJ Islam
Further subjects:B Salafism
B Ethnography
B Egypt
B al-wala' wa'l-bara'
B da'wa
B maslaha
B oppositionality
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