Namira Nahouza (born July 1979) is a French author,

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researcher,

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, teacher of

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and religious studies, and

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, whose research focusses on contemporary

Salafi The Salafi movement or Salafism () is a reform branch movement within Sunni Islam that originated during the nineteenth century. The name refers to advocacy of a return to the traditions of the "pious predecessors" (), the first three generat ...

Wahhabi Wahhabism ( ar, ٱلْوَهَّابِيَةُ, translit=al-Wahhābiyyah) is a Sunni Islamic revivalist and fundamentalist movement associated with the reformist doctrines of the 18th-century Arabian Islamic scholar, theologian, preacher, ...

theories of

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and

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interpretation. She is probably best known for her book ''Wahhabism and the Rise of the New Salafists: Theology, Power and Sunni Islam'', which was originally a

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submitted to

Exeter University , mottoeng = "We Follow the Light" , established = 1838 - St Luke's College1855 - Exeter School of Art1863 - Exeter School of Science 1955 - University of Exeter (received royal charter) , type = Public ...

in 2009.

Biography

She was born in

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fran ...

in July 1979. She graduated from the Institute of Political Studies of Rennes (France) and the

University of Exeter , mottoeng = "We Follow the Light" , established = 1838 - St Luke's College1855 - Exeter School of Art1863 - Exeter School of Science 1955 - University of Exeter (received royal charter) , type = Public , ...

(United Kingdom). Holder of a

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(

University of Rennes The University of Rennes is a public research university which will be officially reconstituted on 1 January 2023 and located in the city of Rennes, in Upper Brittany, France. The University of Rennes has been divided for almost 50 years, before ...

and

INALCO Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales ( en, National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations), abbreviated as INALCO, is a French university specializing in the teaching of languages and cultures from the world. ...

) in 2004. She completed her

in Arab and

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at the University of Exeter and has an MA in

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. During her university studies, Namira completed several internships: at the French Embassy in

Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo met ...

, at the Permanent Representation of the Comoros to the

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and

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in 2001.

Works

Namira's works include: *
Indépendance et partition des Comores, 1974-1978
' (

Moroni, Comoros Moroni ( ar, موروني, ''Mūrūnī'') is the largest city, federal capital, and seat of the government of the Union of the Comoros, a sovereign archipelago nation in the Indian Ocean. Moroni means "at the river" (''mroni'' in Shingazidja). ...

: KomÉdit, 2005).
''Contemporary Wahhabism Rebranded as Salafism: The Issue of Interpreting the Qur'anic Verses and Hadith on the Attributes of God and Its Significance''
(Exeter:

, 2009). *
Wahhabism and the Rise of the New Salafists: Theology, Power and Sunni Islam
' (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2018).

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on

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{{Authority control 1979 births Living people Lecturers Islamic studies scholars Critics of Wahhabism French women academics French people of Comorian descent Writers from Marseille Sunni Muslims Alumni of the University of Exeter

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