1. Understanding Salafism: A Few Introductory Remarks
2. Defining Salafism: What is at Stake?
- Salafism: An Attempt at a Definition
- Understanding Salafism: The Need to Reflect in Terms of Mental Topography
3. Salafism: A Brief History
4. The Basics of the Salafist Ethic
- The Cleric, or the Cornerstone of the Salafist Meaning System
- Literalism or Scripturalism?
5. The Globalization of Salafism
- The Statization of Salafism with the Birth and the Rise of Modern Saudi Arabia
- The Saudization of Salafism in the 20th Century: When Saudi Arabia Speaks for Islam and the Umma
- A Two-Level State Salafism: Clerics and Kings
6. The Fragmentation and Crisis of Salafism: The Saudi Turn and the Rise of New Ideological Contenders
- From Consensus to Crisis of Legitimacy: The Fragmentation and Explosion of the Global Salafist Field around the Question of the Sa'ud: The Challenge of Islamism, Jihadism and Democratization
From an Offensive Salafism to a Defensive form of Salafism
The Emergence of Salafism-Jihadism and the Crisis of Saudi Religious and Political Legitimacy
- Since the Arab Revolutions: Saudi Arabia between Positive and Negative Centrality
- The Rise of a 'Soft Salafism': Religious Reformation in Saudi Arabia?
7. Salafism and Modernity: Beyond Politics
- Crisis of Traditional Authority and Divorce between Culture and Religion
- Islam of Globalization? When Fundamentalism is Modern
- The Salafist Economic Ethics: Salvation by Worldly Success?
- Salafism and Migration: The Case of Hijra
The Hijra in Salafism: The Fulfilment of Allegiance and Disavowel
The Internal Hijra: Between Symbolic Withdrawal and the Premises of Departure
The Short-Term Hijra: A First Step Towards a Final Break
The Final Hijra: Completion of the Rupture?
8. Understanding Past and Today Jihadism
- From Jihad to Jihadism
Armed Jihad between Historical Exception and Today Systemization
The Contemporary Origins of Jihadism
- The Core Questions of Jihadism
Who is the Enemy?
Who must Lead Jihad and Jihadism?
The Role of Jihadist Endeavour in the Definition of Being a Muslim
How to Strategize and Lead Jihadism Militarily?
Joining a Foreign Jihadist Movement
Terrorist Radicalization
9. Salafism in Context: Understanding the Issue of Ideological and Social Permeability, and the Value Places on Quietism, Political Participation and Violence
- Salafism and Violence: Is Political Change Desirable? If Yes, How to Achieve It?
- Beyond the Fragmentation of Salafism: Is Jihadism Getting Autonomized?
Salafism and Jihadism: A Common Doctrinal Heritage
Jihadist Differentiation from Salafism
Empowerment of Jihadism: Violence without Religious Socialization
Apocalypticism of Islamic State Jihadism
Post-Islamic State Juhadism
10. By Way of Conclusion: Salafism as a Vector: A Containers More than a Content? Beyond the Essentialization of a Fundamentalism