The Making of Salafism : Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (328 pages)
- Religion, Culture, and Public Life Series ; v.31 .
- Religion, Culture, and Public Life Series .
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Being Salafi in the Early Twentieth Century -- 2. Rashid Rida's Rehabilitation of the Wahhabis and Its Consequences -- 3. Purist Salafism in the Age of Islamic Nationalism -- 4. The Ironies of Modernity and the Advent of Modernist Salafism -- 5. Searching for a Raison d'Être in the Postindependence Era -- 6. The Triumph and Ideologization of Purist Salafism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Sees the Salafi movement as a recent conception of Islam projected back onto the past and its purist evolution as a direct result of decolonization.