TY - JOUR PY - 2021// TI - What is contemporary political violence? An interview with Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou JO - Violence A1 - Ould Mohamedou, Mohammad-Mahmoud A1 - Adraoui, Mohamed-Ali SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - Should "jihadist" violence be analyzed as a specificity of contemporary global conflict, or should we instead look at it in terms of broader and more encompassing historical dynamics, dynamics that characterize other religious traditions, as much as the other modes of political, cultural, and social thought of our times? In this interview, Professor Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou warns of the intellectual trap of taking violent actors at their word--a tendency all too present in contemporary analyses of jihadism, Islamic-inspired radicalization, and, more generally, religious justifications of violence.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 2633-0024 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2633002421991780 ID - ref1 ER -