A Perverted Balance: Modern Salafism between Reform and Jihād*


This article argues that there are structural affinities and continuities between the late nineteenth-century modernist reformers and today’s quietist, political, and jihādī Salafī factions. Salafism refers to the basic theological-ideological formation that postulates a return to pristine Islam to...

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Main Author: Weismann, Itzchak (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2017, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-66
Further subjects:B Salafism
 Wahhābiyya
 Anṣār al-Sunna al-Muḥammadiyya
 Muslim Brothers
 radical Islam
 Ahl al-Ḥadīth
 Islamic Awakening
 jihādī-Salafism
 al-Qaeda

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