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...
For more information on the published version, visit Rowman & Littlefield's Website., In 2011, massive protest movements that appeared to come out of nowhere caught the Arab world’s autocrats by surprise and brought down...
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...
Published as: Commins, David. “Syria.” In Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion , 2nd ed., edited by Robert Wuthnow. Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press, 2006. For more information on the published version, visit CQ Press's Website....
(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...
For more information on the published version, visit ABC-CLIO's Website., Commins, David. Wahhabism. In The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Political, Social, and Military History, edited by Spencer Tucker. Santa...
