Z Pall
Biographic Data
| ID | 68568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Z Pall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Pall |
| SIGNATURE | PALL Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Austrian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0582-870X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Reemergence of Ambiguity
This article explores the paradoxical reemergence of ambiguity within Cambodian Salafism. While Salafism aspires to remove uncertainty from Islamic belief and practice through a literalist and universalist framework, its implementation in Cambodia has revealed tensions with local social realities and clashes with Cham cosmologies rooted in pluralism and ritual fluidity. The article shows how educated, middle-class Muslims from Salafi backgrounds …
Legislating Islam
Cambodianizing' Salafism
Sunni City
Lebanon is one of the most researched countries in the Middle East. Scholars have published hundreds of studies in recent decades on its unique consociational political system, historical evolution, media, and social dynamics. Yet its second largest city, Tripoli, escaped scholarly attention despite its crucial historical and sociopolitical importance.Numerous journalistic pieces and policy papers depict the city as the hotbed of Islamic radicali…
Post-Salafism in Cambodia
Can the umma replace the nation? Salafism, home-making and the territorial nation-state
Engaging with contemporary literature on migration and home-making, in this article I examine Salafi concepts of home and its relationship to the idea of nation-state. I discuss how Salafism, a transnational Islamic proselytizing movement, strives to create the ideal home for believers by reorienting their belonging from the local and territorial to a deterritorialized and abstract space. Thereby Salafism bypasses, and indirectly challenges, the …
Food is Freedom
Kuwait's cooperative societies ("co-ops") are vital institutions that are a hub for social, economic, and political activities. In this article we focus on the purpose of co-ops from a socio-political perspective. We argue that co-ops function both as bottom-up organizations and as a means of upholding citizen autonomy versus the state. Historically they emerged as grassroots initiatives in the pre-oil era and have played a significant role in th…
What divides Salafis
Quintan Wiktorowicz’s typology and other methods of classification developed by other scholars from his approach have been the most popular when studying Salafism. However, such typologies, especially when examining Salafism in non-Middle Eastern and minority contexts, have their shortcomings. The first main problem with current typologies is that they discuss distinct Salafi factions at a specific time and local context, but intend to be univers…
Emerging Islamic Representations in the Cambodian Muslim Social Media Scene
This article explores the characteristics and structure of the Cambodian Muslim social media scene and considers what they tell us about the sociopolitical setting of the country's Muslim minority. It focuses on how the relationship between Islamic actors of the Cambodian Muslim minority, that is, groups, movements and institutions, and their offline environment shape their online representations and proselytization activities. It particularly co…
The Development and Fragmentation of Kuwait's al-Jama'a al-Salafiyya
This article argues that the pragmatism displayed by Salafi politicians after the 2011 Arab uprisings might not apply to the larger networks of the movement. Such pragmatism contributed to organizational dysfunction in Kuwait's largest Salafi group, al-Jama'a al-Salafiyya. The ideological foundations of the group stood at odds with its extensive institutional structures, impeding it from functioning effectively. To explain this, the article draws…
Salafī Islam in Cambodia
After the departure of the United Nations and the restoration of the monarchy in 1993, Cambodia's Muslim minorities became an important hub of transnational Muslim networks and movements, including the Salafī movement, which is increasingly influential. This article will examine how Salafism has inserted itself into Cambodian society and what limits there may be to its continued growth
Interviewing Salafis
In chapter 11, Zoltan Pall and Mohamed-Ali Adraoui provide a snapshot of stories from their practical experiences conducting research on Salafis in Lebanon, Kuwait, and France in order to illustrate how to deal with Salafis as subjects of social science inquiry and to provide broader lessons for future researchers. They discuss the challenges and difficulties they faced while conducting fieldwork that came from the Salafis’ distrust of western re…
Salafism in Lebanon
The past two decades have seen an increasing association between Lebanese Salafism and violence, with less attention being paid to Salafis who focus on peaceful proselytization. In reality, it is these Salafis whose influence has dramatically grown since the eruption of the Syrian conflict that profoundly affected Lebanon as well. Based on extensive fieldwork, Zoltan Pall offers insights into the dynamics of non-violent Lebanese Salafi groups and…
Being and Belonging in Transnational Salafism
This article is an inquiry into how the transnational networks of Salafism in Europe and the Middle East are structured by looking at two case studies: one about a Lebanese-Palestinian preacher in Sweden and one about a Dutch preacher in the Netherlands and the uk . By presenting these case studies we explain the predominance of informality in these networks, and highlight the different ways in which they link European Salafi preachers to the Mid…
Lebanese Salafis between the Gulf and Europe
The Development and Fragmentation of Kuwait's al-Jama'a al-Salafiyya
This article argues that the pragmatism displayed by Salafi politicians after the 2011 Arab uprisings might not apply to the larger networks of the movement. Such pragmatism contributed to organizational dysfunction in Kuwait's largest Salafi group, al-Jama'a al-Salafiyya. The ideological foundations of the group stood at odds with its extensive institutional structures, impeding it from functioning effectively. To explain this, the article draws…
Can the umma replace the nation? Salafism, home-making and the territorial nation-state
Engaging with contemporary literature on migration and home-making, in this article I examine Salafi concepts of home and its relationship to the idea of nation-state. I discuss how Salafism, a transnational Islamic proselytizing movement, strives to create the ideal home for believers by reorienting their belonging from the local and territorial to a deterritorialized and abstract space. Thereby Salafism bypasses, and indirectly challenges, the …
Being and Belonging in Transnational Salafism
This article is an inquiry into how the transnational networks of Salafism in Europe and the Middle East are structured by looking at two case studies: one about a Lebanese-Palestinian preacher in Sweden and one about a Dutch preacher in the Netherlands and the uk . By presenting these case studies we explain the predominance of informality in these networks, and highlight the different ways in which they link European Salafi preachers to the Mid…
What divides Salafis
Quintan Wiktorowicz’s typology and other methods of classification developed by other scholars from his approach have been the most popular when studying Salafism. However, such typologies, especially when examining Salafism in non-Middle Eastern and minority contexts, have their shortcomings. The first main problem with current typologies is that they discuss distinct Salafi factions at a specific time and local context, but intend to be univers…
Salafī Islam in Cambodia
After the departure of the United Nations and the restoration of the monarchy in 1993, Cambodia's Muslim minorities became an important hub of transnational Muslim networks and movements, including the Salafī movement, which is increasingly influential. This article will examine how Salafism has inserted itself into Cambodian society and what limits there may be to its continued growth
Lebanese Salafis between the Gulf and Europe
Being and Belonging in Transnational Salafism
This article is an inquiry into how the transnational networks of Salafism in Europe and the Middle East are structured by looking at two case studies: one about a Lebanese-Palestinian preacher in Sweden and one about a Dutch preacher in the Netherlands and the uk . By presenting these case studies we explain the predominance of informality in these networks, and highlight the different ways in which they link European Salafi preachers to the Mid…
Interviewing Salafis
In chapter 11, Zoltan Pall and Mohamed-Ali Adraoui provide a snapshot of stories from their practical experiences conducting research on Salafis in Lebanon, Kuwait, and France in order to illustrate how to deal with Salafis as subjects of social science inquiry and to provide broader lessons for future researchers. They discuss the challenges and difficulties they faced while conducting fieldwork that came from the Salafis’ distrust of western re…
Salafism in Lebanon
The past two decades have seen an increasing association between Lebanese Salafism and violence, with less attention being paid to Salafis who focus on peaceful proselytization. In reality, it is these Salafis whose influence has dramatically grown since the eruption of the Syrian conflict that profoundly affected Lebanon as well. Based on extensive fieldwork, Zoltan Pall offers insights into the dynamics of non-violent Lebanese Salafi groups and…
The Development and Fragmentation of Kuwait's al-Jama'a al-Salafiyya
This article argues that the pragmatism displayed by Salafi politicians after the 2011 Arab uprisings might not apply to the larger networks of the movement. Such pragmatism contributed to organizational dysfunction in Kuwait's largest Salafi group, al-Jama'a al-Salafiyya. The ideological foundations of the group stood at odds with its extensive institutional structures, impeding it from functioning effectively. To explain this, the article draws…
Salafī Islam in Cambodia
After the departure of the United Nations and the restoration of the monarchy in 1993, Cambodia's Muslim minorities became an important hub of transnational Muslim networks and movements, including the Salafī movement, which is increasingly influential. This article will examine how Salafism has inserted itself into Cambodian society and what limits there may be to its continued growth
Emerging Islamic Representations in the Cambodian Muslim Social Media Scene
This article explores the characteristics and structure of the Cambodian Muslim social media scene and considers what they tell us about the sociopolitical setting of the country's Muslim minority. It focuses on how the relationship between Islamic actors of the Cambodian Muslim minority, that is, groups, movements and institutions, and their offline environment shape their online representations and proselytization activities. It particularly co…
Food is Freedom
Kuwait's cooperative societies ("co-ops") are vital institutions that are a hub for social, economic, and political activities. In this article we focus on the purpose of co-ops from a socio-political perspective. We argue that co-ops function both as bottom-up organizations and as a means of upholding citizen autonomy versus the state. Historically they emerged as grassroots initiatives in the pre-oil era and have played a significant role in th…
What divides Salafis
Quintan Wiktorowicz’s typology and other methods of classification developed by other scholars from his approach have been the most popular when studying Salafism. However, such typologies, especially when examining Salafism in non-Middle Eastern and minority contexts, have their shortcomings. The first main problem with current typologies is that they discuss distinct Salafi factions at a specific time and local context, but intend to be univers…
Sunni City
Lebanon is one of the most researched countries in the Middle East. Scholars have published hundreds of studies in recent decades on its unique consociational political system, historical evolution, media, and social dynamics. Yet its second largest city, Tripoli, escaped scholarly attention despite its crucial historical and sociopolitical importance.Numerous journalistic pieces and policy papers depict the city as the hotbed of Islamic radicali…
Post-Salafism in Cambodia
Can the umma replace the nation? Salafism, home-making and the territorial nation-state
Engaging with contemporary literature on migration and home-making, in this article I examine Salafi concepts of home and its relationship to the idea of nation-state. I discuss how Salafism, a transnational Islamic proselytizing movement, strives to create the ideal home for believers by reorienting their belonging from the local and territorial to a deterritorialized and abstract space. Thereby Salafism bypasses, and indirectly challenges, the …
Legislating Islam
Cambodianizing' Salafism
The Reemergence of Ambiguity
This article explores the paradoxical reemergence of ambiguity within Cambodian Salafism. While Salafism aspires to remove uncertainty from Islamic belief and practice through a literalist and universalist framework, its implementation in Cambodia has revealed tensions with local social realities and clashes with Cham cosmologies rooted in pluralism and ritual fluidity. The article shows how educated, middle-class Muslims from Salafi backgrounds …
Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Cambodian History and Society (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (6 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (5 works) · History (5 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (5 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (5 works)