Published as: Commins, David. Arab Salafism. In Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies, edited by Tamara Sonn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. doi:10.1093/obo/9780195390155-0139 For more information on the...
Scholarship on Islam in the Middle East and North Africa spans a range of disciplines in the humanities (e.g., religion, art history, literature) and social sciences (e.g., history, anthropology, sociology, political science)....
The modern Salafist movement gets its name from the Arabic word salaf , which means ancestors or forefathers. In religious usage, it refers to the earliest Muslim generations, the righteous ancestors, in Arabic al-salaf...
(1909-77), founder and chief ideologue of the Islamic Liberation Party ( ḥizb al -taḥrīr al -islāmī ), which has striven since its formation in 1952 to establish an Islamic state and has been particularly active in Jordan. Al...
