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How Dutch security policy has become entangled in Islam: Since 1998, Dutch policymakers have developed a terminology related to the Islam-security nexus. This terminology has been consequently maintained during 25 years, with very few changes or adaptations, even though it has always been a source of confusion among policymakers themselves as well as politicians and the public. This article demonstrates how this terminological paper trail has been established and entrenched in Dutch bureaucracy, why it is cause for such confusion, and what the effects thereof have been. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Résumé: L'histoire du wahhabisme est le parent pauvre de l'historiographie francophone. Le sujet, plus souvent abordé des points de vue géopolitique et sociologique, n'est que rarement abordé dans son histoire longue, et encore moins depuis le prisme de l'histoire intellectuelle. La parution de la version française du livre de Natana Delong-Bas, Islam wahhabite , qui se caractérise par de nombreuses faiblesses, est l'occasion de faire ici un bilan historiographique : que sait-on de l'émergence du wahhabisme, de la personnalité et de l'œuvre de son fondateur ? Comment écrire cette histoire qui s'inscrit dans celle, plus large, du taǧdīd ? Quelles relations le wahhabisme entretint-il avec les courants réformateurs héritiers, concomitamment, de l'œuvre d'Ibn ʿArabī et Ibn Taymiyya ? La présente note critique est également l'occasion de revenir sur les écueils et enjeux du travail d'écriture et d'interprétation du wahhabisme, doctrine proprement révolutionnaire. Par bien des aspects, le livre de Natana Delong-Bas s'inscrit dans une historiographie plus ancienne – à la fois présente dans des courants de la salafiyya et dans l'orientalisme – établissant une dichotomie entre le wahhabisme et Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, et pensant l'œuvre de ce dernier comme une tentative de sursaut dans un cadre général de décadence généralisée du monde musulman. Le présent article vise à déconstruire ce récit, problématique à plus d'un titre. The history of Wahhabism is the poor relative in French-language historiography. The topic has often been approached from a geopolitical and sociological point of view and has only rarely been addressed in its long history, and even less so from the prism of intellectual history. The publication of the French translation of Natana Delong-Bas' book, Wahhabi Islam , is characterized by many pitfalls, but nevertheless lends the opportunity for a historiographical assessment: what do we know about the emergence of Wahhabism, and of the personality and work of its founder? How do historians write this phenomenon which is part of the larger story of Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb? What relations did Wahhabism maintain with other reformist currents, concomitantly inspired by the works of Ibn ʿArabī and Ibn Taymiyya? This critical note is also an opportunity to come back to the pitfalls and challenges of writing and interpreting such a truly revolutionary doctrine as Wahhabism. In many ways, Natana Delong-Bas' book is part of an older historiographical tradition – both present in Salafiyya currents and in Orientalism – establishing a dichotomy between Wahhabism and Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, and interpreting the latter's work as an intellectual wake-up call in a general context of perceived decadence in the Muslim world confronted by the challenges of modernity and colonialism. This article aims to deconstruct this narrative, which is problematic in more than one way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The use of the term Salafism in modern times is ambiguous and confusing in many ways. This ambiguity can be realized when many Salafis themselves are not entirely clear as to what Salafism entails, assuming that it is simply to follow the Quran and Sunnah - a problematic definition since it implies that others do not. Furthermore, due to the ambiguity of the term, Salafism in an actual broader sense is claimed by all Muslims, in that the universal Islamic ideal is to imitate the Prophet and the early Muslim community. This paper provides an understanding on the world of Salafism, particularly the phenomenon of modern Salafism. It begins with a brief definition of Salafism, its history and attempts to discuss its realities and complexities in the modern world. The paper also highlights the various groups and categories of modern Salafis as observed by several academics and commentators. It concludes with an analysis of the ideology, characteristics and components of modern Salafism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This bibliographical essay documents for the first time the treatises written on the Sunni Islamic doctrine of tašabbuh —the reprehensible imitation of others, especially non-Muslims. Since the formative period of Islam, tašabbuh has played an important role in shaping both Islamic orthodoxy and Muslim inter-religious relations. But due to a focus on the doctrine's historical origins, existing scholarship has yet to identify the Islamic literary genre that I call "the treatises against imitation," which was a post-formative development. To fill this scholarly lacuna, this study traces the genre's historical evolution by creating an archive of available treatises against imitation, pre-modern and modern. Chronologically arranged and periodized, the bibliographical entries include descriptive summaries of each treatise, with references to published and/or manuscript editions and existing scholarship on the text and its author. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]