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Global salafism : Islam's new religious movement

Title By: Meijer, Roel [Editor.]
Material type: BookPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, USA, 2013Description: xix, 463 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199333431Subject(s): Salafīyah | Islamic fundamentalismDDC classification: 297.8/1
Summary:
""Salafism" and "jihadi-Salafism" have become significant doctrinal trends in contemporary Islamic thought, yet the West has largely failed to offer a sophisticated and discerning definition of these movements. The contributors to Global Salafism carefully outline not only the differences in the Salafi schools but the broader currents of Islamic thought that constitute this trend as well. They examine both the regional manifestations of the phenomenon and its shared, essential doctrines. Their analyses highlight Salafism's inherent ambivalence and complexitites--the 'out-antiquing the antique' that has brought Islamic thought into the modern age while maintaining its relationship to an older, purer authenticity. Emphasising the subtle tensions between local and glocal aspirations within the "Salafi method", Global Salafism investigates the movement like no other study currently available"--
"Maps out differences in various Salafist schools. This book examines the phenomenon both in its regional manifestations - which demonstrate surprising diversities, ambivalences and contradictions - and in its shared essential doctrines"--
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""Salafism" and "jihadi-Salafism" have become significant doctrinal trends in contemporary Islamic thought, yet the West has largely failed to offer a sophisticated and discerning definition of these movements. The contributors to Global Salafism carefully outline not only the differences in the Salafi schools but the broader currents of Islamic thought that constitute this trend as well. They examine both the regional manifestations of the phenomenon and its shared, essential doctrines. Their analyses highlight Salafism's inherent ambivalence and complexitites--the 'out-antiquing the antique' that has brought Islamic thought into the modern age while maintaining its relationship to an older, purer authenticity. Emphasising the subtle tensions between local and glocal aspirations within the "Salafi method", Global Salafism investigates the movement like no other study currently available"-- Provided by publisher.

"Maps out differences in various Salafist schools. This book examines the phenomenon both in its regional manifestations - which demonstrate surprising diversities, ambivalences and contradictions - and in its shared essential doctrines"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction / Roel Meijer -- Part 1 -- SALAFIST DOCTRINE -- 1. On the Nature of Salafi Thought and Action -- Appendix al-Qaeda's Creed and Path / Bernard Haykel -- 2. Between Revolution and Apoliticism: Nasir al-Din al-Albani and his Impact on the Shaping of Contemporary Salafism / Stéphane Lacroix -- 3. The Transformation of a Radical Concept: al-wala' wa-l-bara' in the Ideology of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi / Joas Wagemakers -- 4. Jihadi-Salafism and the Shi'is: Remarks about the Intellectual Roots of anti-Shi'ism / Guido Steinberg -- 5. Salafism in Pakistan: The Ahl-e Hadith Movement / Mariam Abou Zahab -- Part 2 -- SALAFISM AND POLITICS -- 6. The Salafi Critique of Islamism: Doctrine, Difference and the Problem of Islamic Political Action in Contemporary Sudan / Noah Salomon -- 7. Ambivalent Doctrines and Conflicts in the Salafi Movement in Indonesia / Noorhaidi Hasan -- 8. Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong as a Principle of Social Action: The Case of the Egyptian al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya / Roel Meijer -- 9. Salafi Formations in Palestine: The Limits of a de-Palestinised Milieu / Khaled Hroub -- Part 3 -- JIHADI-SALAFISM -- 10. Jihadi-Salafis or Revolutionaries? On Religion and Politics in the Study of Militant Islamism / Thomas Hegghammer -- 11. Debates within the Family: Jihadi-Salafi Debates on Strategy, Takfir, Extremism, Suicide Bombings and the Sense of the Apocalypse / Reuven Paz -- 12. "Destructive Doctrinairians": Abu Mus'ab al-Suri's Critique of the Salafis in the Jihadi Current / Brynjar Lia -- Part 4 -- THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL IN SALAFISM -- 13. The Local and the Global in Saudi Salafi Discourse / Madawi Al-Rasheed -- 14. How Transnational is Salafism in Yemen? / Laurent Bonnefoy -- 15. Growth and Fragmentation: The Salafi Movement in Bale, Ethiopia / Terje Østebø -- Part 5 -- SALAFISM AND IDENTITY -- 16. Salafism in France: Ideology, Practices and Contradictions / Mohamed-Ali Adraoui -- 17. The Attraction of "Authentic Islam": Salafism and British Muslim Youth /- Sadek Hamid -- 18. Changing Worldviews and Friendship: An Exploration of the Life Stories of Two Female Salafis in the Netherlands / Martijn de Koning.

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