Namira Nahouza (born July 1979) is a French author,
academic
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researcher,
university lecturer
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, teacher of
Arabic
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and
religious studies, and
research fellow
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at
Cambridge Muslim College
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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, an ...
theories of
Qur'anic
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and
Hadith
Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval ...
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
PhD thesis
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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 Franc ...
in July 1979. She graduated from the
Institute of Political Studies of Rennes (France) and the
University of Exeter
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(United Kingdom). Holder of a
master's degree
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Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic languages, Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C ...
(
University of Rennes
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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
PhD in Arab and
Islamic Studies
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at the University of Exeter and has an
MA in
European Studies
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Some programmes offer a social science or public administration curriculum focusing on develop ...
. During her university studies, Namira completed several internships: at the French Embassy in
Cairo
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, at the Permanent Representation of the
Comoros
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to the
United Nations
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in
New York
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* New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York
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and
France
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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 (political), capital, and seat of the government of the Comoros, Union of the Comoros, a sovereign archipelago nation in the Indian Ocean. Moroni means "at the river" ...
: 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:
University of Exeter
The University of Exeter is a public university , public research university in Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of Min ...
, 2009).
*
Wahhabism and the Rise of the New Salafists: Theology, Power and Sunni Islam' (London and New York:
I. B. Tauris
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It specialises in non- ...
, 2018).
Notes
See also
References
External links
Namira Nahouza's pageon
Goodreads
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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