The Making of Salafism : Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century.
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- computer
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- 9780231540179
- 297.8/3
- BP195.S18L38 2016
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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