o:id
	12743
url
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/12743
o:resource_template
	Journal article
o:resource_class
	bibo:AcademicArticle
dcterms:title
	Autocratic Legacies and State Management of Islamic Activism in Niger
dcterms:subject
	autocracy
	state
	activism
dcterms:publisher
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/25011
dcterms:date
	2015
dcterms:type
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8475
dcterms:identifier
	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116295118 Q116295118
	iwac-reference-0000243
dcterms:language
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/8322
dcterms:abstract
	In contrast to similar organizations in its neighbouring countries, Niger's domestic Salafi associations have remained peaceful and apolitical. Drawing on historical institutionalist scholarship and on recent conceptualizations of the state as a religious actor, this article examines how the Nigerien state has tried to regulate religious practices since Seyni Kountché's military coup in 1974. It argues that the institutional regulation of religious practices is one important variable that accounts for Niger's deviant trajectory. During Niger's autocratic period (1974–91), the government established the Association islamique du Niger (AIN) as the sole legal authority regulating access to Niger's Friday prayer mosques. Committed to peaceful and apolitical interpretations of the Koran, the AIN confined access to Niger's religious sphere to local clerics and Sufi brotherhoods. After the breakdown of autocratic rule in 1991, the AIN served as a religious advisory body. Salafi associations could assemble freely but had to abide by certain criteria. Confronted with the prospect of Islamic violence in 2000, the Nigerien state intervened in Niger's religious sphere in several ways. Among other initiatives, the government began to resurrect a more rigorous system of religious supervision in order to monitor religious practices on an ongoing basis.
dcterms:spatial
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/540
bibo:authorList
	https://islam.zmo.de/s/westafrica/item/1230
bibo:doi
	https://doi.org/10.1093/AFRAF/ADV039 10.1093/AFRAF/ADV039
bibo:issue
	457
bibo:pageEnd
	597
bibo:pageStart
	577
bibo:volume
	114

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