Arrival of legal Salafism and struggle for recognition in Germany

• Verfasst von: Emmerich, Arndt [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Arrival of legal Salafism and struggle for recognition in Germany
• Titelzusatz: reflection and adaptation processes within the German da'wa movement between 2001 and 2022
• Verf.angabe: Arndt Emmerich
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: September 2023
• Umfang: 19 S.
• Fussnoten: Online veröffentlicht: 03 April 2023 ; Gesehen am 09.12.2024
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Politics and religion
• Ort Quelle: Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008
• Jahr Quelle: 2023
• Band/Heft Quelle: 16(2023), 3 vom: Sept., Seite 416-434
• ISSN Quelle: 1755-0491
• DOI: doi:10.1017/S1755048323000056
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Sach-SW: Islam in Germany
• Sach-SW: legal pragmatism
• Sach-SW: longitudinal qualitative research
• Sach-SW: political accommodation
• Sach-SW: Salafism
• K10plus-PPN: 1843353784
• K10plus-PPN:
  Universitätsbibliothek
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Abstract

The article investigates the transformation within a specific branch of German Salafism from a publicly-assertive da'wa (proselytizing) to a politically accommodating and legal advocacy movement. In doing so, a process analysis that focuses on internal and reflexive narrations among Salafi leaders and lay members, through a three year-long mosque-based ethnography (2018-2021) and textual analysis (2008-2022), is employed. Previous studies focused predominately on the “Salafi growth phase” (2005-2015) in Germany that is associated with the attraction of exclusive group boundaries, flat hierarchies and informal networks. Less research exists on the current “decline phase”, which has commenced a re-orientation and critical reflection on past strategies and new ways of civic engagement and legal pragmatism. By exploring this new phase, the article integrates a longitudinal dimension into conventional research protocols on contemporary Salafism. The paper concludes with a discussion on the converging struggles for recognition among Muslim and other religious minorities in Europe, while linking these transformations to domestic opportunity structures rather than transnational reconfigurations of so-called “global Salafism”.