Salafismo

How should a Muslim live so as not to be swept away by the world? How can he overcome the material and epistemological dependence that has made him a subaltern subject of history? Or put succinctly: how to empower yourself? To these questions, common to the broad Islamist spectrum, Salafism seeks to give its own answer, with provocative and controversial arguments, and, above all, by seeking to revive the original purity of Islam, embodied in the first and "authentic" Muslims, the Salaf ( where does the term "Salafism" come from), an ideal that would have been perverted. But how to revive is to build, the Salafist, no matter how bad it may be, forges himself, individually and collectively, through a community of "mundane" discourse, material and occasional, which likewise leads him to quietist mutations. and even eremitics than parademocratic or jihadists. This worldliness of purity, ontological and not only functional, is thus the inevitable foundation of Salafism. This book deals with the intellectual history of this transnational current, which accompanies the very development of Islam and is today linked to liquid modernity, which explains why it is so attractive for some Muslims as it is disturbing or aberrant for the majority.