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Salafīyah; Islamic fundamentalism; Islam and politics; Egypt

Since 9/11, Salafism has attracted a great deal of attention from the world's media, which predominantly focuses on its potential for revolutionary violence. Salafism remains poorly understood both in Western media, where it is now the focus of considerable debate, and in Western academia, where until recently it was virtually undiscussed. In neither arena has a consensus emerged regarding what Salafism is or does. This pioneering work fills this lacuna by redirecting the reader towards the sphere of ritual practice, within which the discussions of contemporary Salafi scholars prove equally re

Militant Salafism is one of the most significant movements in politics today. Unfortunately its significance has not been matched by understanding. To begin to address this knowledge deficit this book argues that, rather than the largely unhelpful pursuit of individual 'root causes' offered in much of the literature, we would be better served by looking at the factors that have enabled and facilitated a particular political imaginary. That political imaginary is one that allows individuals to conceive of themselves as integral members of a global battle waged between the forces of Islam and the West, something that lies at the heart of militant Salafism. Frazer Egerton shows how the ubiquity of modern media and the prevalence of movement have allowed for a transformation of existing beliefs into an ideology supportive of militant Salafism against the West amongst Western Muslims

Geneology of debates on the relative status and the authenticity of the various sources of legal authority in the Sunni islamic tradition -- Neo-traditional salafism: its main proponents and its manhaj -- The delineating features of pre-modern embedded manahij and their interpretational implications -- NTS religiously ideal "believer" and "Muslim woman" concepts -- Progressive Muslims: conceptualising and engaging the Islamic tradition -- Progressive Muslims' model of interpretation (manhaj) and their interpretational implications -- Progressive Muslims' religiously ideal "believer" and "muslim woman" concepts

Mawlana Mawdudi was one of the most influential and important Islamic thinkers of the modern world, whose brand of political Islam has won widespread acceptance in South and South East Asia as well as the Middle East. He was not only an Islamic scholar, but also a journalist and political activist who founded the Jama'at-i-Islami, which has subsequently influenced the development of many Islamic movements and parties throughout the Muslim world. This book is the first to critically engage and assess his career and legacy within the wider context of political Islam. It includes coverage of his.

The Meccan revolution : the story of Juhayman al-ʻUtaybi revisited / Thomas Hegghammer and Stéphane Lacroix -- Between revolution and apoliticism : Nasir al-Din al-Albani and his impact on the shaping of contemporary Salafism / Stéphane Lacroix

The early and classical Murji'a -- Ibn Taymiyya's Polemics on Faith -- The "Murji'ite" Muslim Brotherhood -- Safar al-Ḥawālī's Ẓāhirat al-irjā' -- Salafī Jihādīs and the theology of faith -- Theology and the changing shape of militancy

Qur'anic geotheology and other perspectives of Islam -- An emerging Muslim world -- Puritans' view of self and community -- Puritans' perception of unbelievers -- The sanctity of Allah's world -- Toward a theocratic nation -- American's Islam's two communities -- The incommensurability of liberalism and puritan Islam -- Puritans' perceptions of the State of Israel -- Future geographies of Islam

"Since 9/ll, the Jordanian Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi (b. West Bank, 1959) has emerged as one of the most important radical Muslim thinkers alive today. While al-Maqdisi may not be a household name in the West, his influence amongst like-minded Muslims stretches across the world from Jordan, where he lives today, to Southeast Asia. His writings and teachings on Salafi Islam have inspired terrorists from Europe to the Middle East, including Abu Muṣʻab al-Zarqawi, the former leader of al-Qaida in Iraq, and Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden's successor as the head of al-Qaida Central. This groundbreaking book, which is the first comprehensive assessment of al-Maqdisi, his life, ideology, and influence, is based on his extensive writings and those of other jihadis, as well as on interviews that the author conducted with former jihadis, including al-Maqdisi himself. It is a serious and intense work of scholarship that uses this considerable archive to explain and interpret al-Maqdisi's particular brand of Salafism. More broadly, the book offers an alternative, insider perspective on the rise of radical Islam, with a particular focus on Salafi opposition movements in Saudi Arabia and Jordan"--