| Summary/Abstract |
In the last 15 years, many have been the changes in relation to the transformation of the Salafiyya trend since Wiktorowicz’s 2006 seminal work. The categories of ‘ilmi (scientific), siyyasi (political), and jihadi (violent) Wiktorowicz put forth in 2006 are here questioned. Building on studies looking at the internal mutations of the Tunisian Salafi movement after 2014, the article explores how, with the exception of tawhid, the scientific trend is divided between malikists and madkhalists. In addition, through the close observation of pious women within the koranic association Imam Malik in Tunis, the argument is that, within scientific Salafism, there are in fact multiple internal ideological conflicts, which are hardly reconcilable in on single category. Through the empirical case of conservative religious women in Tunisia and providing therefore a gender dimension to this discussion, the article concludes that reducing quietism to a single coherent internal ideological framework and a set of lived practices is misplaced.
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