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The article outlines the categories Quintan Wiktorowicz suggested the scholarship should employ to study Salafism and its relationship to the political and argues that such categories need to be revisited considering the changes that have taken place over the last 15 years across the Arab and Muslim world. It then summarises the main findings from the contributions to this special issue.
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Francesco Cavatorta’s work for this article was supported by a grant (number 435–2020-0539) from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).
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Amghar, S., Cavatorta, F. Salafism in the contemporary age: Wiktorowicz revisited. Cont Islam (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11562-023-00524-x
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Keywords
- Wiktorowicz
- Classification
- Salafism
- Politics
- Violence
