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This paper provides an overview of the Salafi movements in Algeria, based on research carried out between 2006 and 2008. According to the author, apolitical or anti-political Salafi trends in Algeria are the result of the marginalization of political Salafists, mainly during the 1990s. They reveal the failure of participationist strategies among the moderate Islamist parties and their difficulties in mobilizing their base, a growing depoliticization among the new young Islamist generation, and the urgent need to reinvent pluralistic politics in a post-conflict Algeria.