ABSTRACT For the last three years, Mozambique has been facing an insurgency in its northern province of Cabo Delgado. There is much confusion and debate as to what is going on. Who are the insurgents, what do they want, and where do they come from? Debates have focused particularly on the role of religion and the external dimension of the insurgency. Drawing on fieldwork from 2018 and 2019, this paper focuses on the first attack of the insurgents in October 2017 and uses this to explore the origin, nature and early history of the contemporary armed violence. It uncovers that the insurgents belong to an Islamist sect which began a decade earlier and shifted to armed jihadism in the mid-2010s.

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莫桑比克的圣战叛乱：起源，性质与起点

摘要在过去的三年中，莫桑比克在其北部省德尔加杜角（Cabo Delgado）面临叛乱。关于正在发生的事情有很多混乱和争论。叛乱者是谁？他们想要什么？他们来自哪里？辩论特别集中在宗教的作用和叛乱的外部方面。本文利用2018年和2019年的实地考察，着重于2017年10月叛乱分子的首次袭击，并以此来探索当代武装暴力的起源，性质和早期历史。调查发现，叛乱分子属于伊斯兰教派，该教派始于十年前，并于2010年代中期转向武装圣战。