Center and Periphery in the World of Islam

The world has been plagued by popular movements of dissidents in practically all countries, which following the precedent set by the Blacks in America, who a century and half after the American Civil War which supposedly freed the Blacks from slavery, are still watching almost daily scenes of discrimination and mistreatment of Black Americans on the infamous model of G. Floyd. Those dissidents and rebels against the existing order embrace various patterns of protest, more or less violent, fearing the obliteration of their identity under the sweep of globalist ideology, and electing to stress their discontent, their rejection of injustice and their claim for the absolute right to rebel due to the absolute oppression that has been pushing them to the margins of their societies. At times, these popular movements can be categorized as wokeism or zombeism, or, on the contrary, in the case of Islam, likening globalism to the established notion of the Ummah, the universal congregation of all Muslims.

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Raphael Israeli - Docteur en histoire chinoise et islamique, professeur d'histoire islamique et chinoise, professeur émérite. Auteur et éditeur de plus de 90 ouvrages de recherche et de plus de 100 articles scientifiques dans les domaines du radicalisme islamique, du terrorisme islamique, du Moyen-Orient moderne et de l'islam en Chine, en Asie et en Europe.