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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

Mali

An Emerging Post-Salafi Current in West Africa and Beyond

By Alexander Thurston  //  October 15, 2018

In January 2018, I sat down for an interview with Mahmoud Dicko, president of the High Islamic Council of Mali (HCIM). As I asked Dicko what I thought were relatively innocuous questions about his positions…

A Mauritanian Fatwa against the French-Led Military Intervention in Mali

By Alexander Thurston  //  January 13, 2017January 13, 2017

In January 2013, France launched Operation Serval, a military intervention designed to restore the territorial integrity of Mali. The operation was meant to dislodge a coalition of jihadist groups that had ruled northern Mali for…

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