Table des matières
Gérard Chouin
ForewordPart I. What is Boko Haram? Some evidence and a lot of confusion
Johannes Harnischfeger
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Boko Haram and its Muslim critics: Observations from Yobe State- Religious populism
- Turning Shariah against the elites
- Shariah as a dividing force
- The failure of democracy
- Muddling through
- The quest for orthodoxy
- A religion for the dispossessed
- Dining with the rich
- A saviour
- How to avoid a religious confrontation
- Western education
- Killing fellow Muslims
- The status of Christians
- The way out
Hannah Hoechner
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Traditional Quranic students (almajirai) in Nigeria: Fair game for unfair accusations?- Introduction
- The issues at stake
- Methods and data
- Who are the almajirai? External ascriptions and internal self-conceptions
- Modernity, appropriate childhoods, and the future of the nation
- Almajirci as antipode of modernity/development
- ‘Modern’ children for a ‘modern’ nation
- Backward and neglectful parents; rogue and gullible children
- The almajirai’s lived experiences
- Complex social realities defying one-dimensional narratives
- Scapegoats at the bottom of the status hierarchy
- Struggling to come to terms with prejudice and stigma
- Conclusion
Henry Gyang Mang
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Christian perceptions of Islam and society in relation to Boko Haram and recent events in Jos and northern Nigeria- Introduction
- Christian narratives and views of Islam
- The politics of Christianity and Islam in Nigeria
- Perspectives of Christians on fundamentalist dissensions like Boko Haram
- Strands and cords in Christian perspectives of Islam and Islamism
- Conservative hierarchical
- Conservative egalitarian
- Liberal political Christian
- Radical Christian identity
- Strands that separate
- Conclusion
Portia Roelofs
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Framing and blaming: Discourse analysis of the Boko Haram uprising, July 2009- Introduction
- Meaning, representation and framing
- Contested chronology and uncritical use of sources
- Methodology and limitations
- Framing and blaming: Discourses on Boko Haram
- Socio-Economic discourse: The roots of underdevelopment
- Religious Structural discourse: Muslims versus the rest
- Political Agency discourse: The volatility of violence
- Religious Agency discourse: deviance and order within Islam
- Tensions, metaphors and hidden assumptions
- Shared ground and areas of tension
- Objectification of violence and social groups
- Conclusion
Part II. Boko Haram and the Nigerian State: A strategic analysis
Freedom Onuoha
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Boko Haram and the evolving Salafi Jihadist threat in Nigeria- Introduction
- Understanding Boko Haram
- Philosophy and ideology
- Leadership, organisation, and membership
- Sources of funds
- The evolution and incarnation of Boko Haram
- Operational tactics of Boko Haram
- Government responses to the Boko Haram threat
- Boko Haram and the transnational Salafi Jihadist threat
- Conclusion
Rafael Serrano et Zacharias Pieri
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By the numbers: The Nigerian State’s efforts to counter Boko HaramGérard Chouin, Manuel Reinert et Élodie Apard
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Body count and religion in the Boko Haram crisis: Evidence from the Nigeria Watch database- Introduction
- Ideological background and attitude towards Christians
- Note on the methodology: Using Nigeria Watch to identify victims, targets, and religious implications of the Boko Haram crisis
- The Nigeria Watch database
- The collection of data on victims and targets
- Methodological challenges
- Case studies
- Generating and interpreting statistical data on body count and religion
- Conclusion
Annexes
Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
Annex 3. Islam and Western education in Nigeria: Between accommodation and confrontationMarc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos
Annex 4. Islam and political parties in the Sudan
