Violence as a Tool: The Changing Nature of Religious Violence in North-western Africa in the 20th Century

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Result on the web

<a href="https://aror.orient.cas.cz/index.php/ArOr/article/view/814" target="_blank" >https://aror.orient.cas.cz/index.php/ArOr/article/view/814</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.92.2.175-199" target="_blank" >10.47979/aror.j.92.2.175-199</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Violence as a Tool: The Changing Nature of Religious Violence in North-western Africa in the 20th Century

Original language description

This article studies violence in the region of North-Western Africa in the 20th century, which witnessed a radical shift in the perpetrators of violence. While at the beginning of the century it was Sufi marabouts who issued the call to arms, in the course of the century they were succeeded by Salafi nationalists, Islamists, and jihadists. The motivations for violence also changed. In the first half of the century, acts of violence committed by Muslim groups in the region often had a “side” agenda and were used as a tool by Sufi and Salafi to achieve some un-religious goals. Later, following changes in the whole Muslim world, violence became a tool of religion, used by Islamists and Salafi movements to hijack the system. The explanation for these changes lies not just in the region itself but also in its changing political and religious landscape.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Archiv Orientalni

ISSN

0044-8699

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

92

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

25

Pages from-to

175-199

UT code for WoS article

001424346800002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85208572275