Laurent Bonnefoy
Author of Salafism in Yemen: Transnationalism and Religious Identity
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Les indésirables: les camps d'internés civils français et étrangers, 1939-1946 (2020) — Collaboration — 1 copy
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- Institut d'études politiques, (Doctorat, Science politique, Thèse "Les relations religieuses transnationales contemporaines entre le Yémen et l'Arabie saoudite : un salafisme "importé" ?", 20 07)
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- Bertrand Badie (Directeur de thèse)
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- Institut d'études politiques (Chercheur)
Université de Provence (Chercheur)
Centre français d'archéologie et de sciences sociales de Sanaa, Yemen (Chercheur, 2012)
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In doing so he focuses both on decidedly non-violent Salafi doctrines propounded by the renowned Yemeni Salafi thinker and teacher, Muqbil al-Wadi’i (d. 2001), and on the everyday practices of his activists. Rather than emerging as the result of specifically planned policies, Salafism in Yemen appears to have developed since the early 1980s through spontaneous mechanisms that highlight the irrelevance of the dominant state-centred narrative. Laurent Bonnefoy demonstrates how this new religious movement then underwent complex, subtle yet tangible translocal transformations linked to migration, the individualisation of religious identities and globalisation. As such, far from being an ‘imported product’, Salafism in Yemen is deeply rooted in its local context.… (more)