What Do We Mean By “Salafī”?: Connecting Muḥammad ʿAbduh with Egypt’s Nūr Party in Islam’s Contemporary Intellectual History


In contemporary academic literature, the word “Salafī” has a variety of meanings. Most importantly, Western academic literature of the 20th and 21st centuries applies the word to (1) an Islamic reform movement founded by Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (d. 1897) and Muḥammad ʿAbduh (1849–1905) in the last d...

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Published in:Die Welt des Islams
Main Author: Griffel, Frank (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2015, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 186-220
Further subjects:B salafiyya
 Islamic reform movements
 Nūr Party
 Wahhabism
 lā madhhabiyya
 tawḥīd
 ṭahāra
 Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā (1865–1935)
 Muḥammad Ḥāmid al-Fiqī (1892–1959)
 Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī (1914–99)

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