What is at issue are new visions of collective identity and society being propagated by emergent groups, in this case FAIB and Ansarul Islam, in different contexts and following radically opposed methods and logics. FAIB was created in 2005 with the aims of building Muslim unity and influencing state policies that affect Muslim national interests. Since then, it has pursued religious and sociopolitical objectives that have gradually contributed to the development of a new political culture of Islam. Compared to the vision that Muslim associations had of their role and the relations they should maintain with the state, FAIB’s approach represented a rupture. As for Ansarul Islam, which arose in 2016, the express purpose of its founder Ibrahim Malam Dicko was to employ preaching and jihad to radically reform Islamic Fulani society in the Soum, the western province of the Sahel region. Compared to FAIB, the model type of Muslim civil society organization operating within the framework of state institutions, Ansarul Islam presents itself instead as an identity-based movement, especially of the Fulani, involving an appropriation of Islam, the hegemonic norm of Fulani society in the Soum since at least the early 19th century.

Burkina Faso, islam, Politic, Modernity, Scial change