Premodern Origins of Jihadi-Salafism

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Jaan Islam, Bogazici University) Islam, Jaan (Assistant Professor of Political Science

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What is Jihadi-Salafism and how does it relate to classical Islam? Scholars of Terrorism Studies argue that 'Jihadism' and Salafism are derivatives of Wahh?bism and lie on the ideological margins of the Islamic tradition. This book challenges this narrative, demonstrating that concepts associated with the terms including 'divine sovereignty', 'jihad' and 'the caliphate' are utilised by Salafi Ulama in connection with the following disparate classical Islamic traditions: Sh?fi?ite legal theory during the Mongol invasions; Ottoman and Indian anti-colonial ?anafite thought; M?likite and Sh?fi?ite 'political jurisprudence'; and the literalism of the Yemeni luminary Mu?ammad al-Shawk?n? (d. 1834).This is the first book to disaggregate linear histories of Jihadi-Salafism by shifting the focus from Wahh?bism to Sunnism, including M?tur?dite and Ash?arite doctrinal schools and the 'four schools' of law. Based on archival research and interviews, it examines the thought of diverse Ulama, ranging from ?Abdullah ?Azz?m to Ab? Mu?ammad al-Maqdis?. It highlights their profound commitment to the classical Islamic sciences, as well as their distinct interpretations of historical crises that befell the premodern Umma, ultimately articulating a vision for its future.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-01-31
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor376
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399546676

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Jaan S. Islam is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul. He completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh as a SGSAH Fellow and worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. Dr Islam’s main research interests are comparative political thought, Islamic jurisprudence and decolonial theory. His recent works include Islam and the State in Ibn Taymiyya: Translation and Analysis (Routledge, 2022) and “A Jihadi Critique of the Modern State” published in Political Theory.

DedicationAcknowledgementsList of FiguresNote on Translation and Transliteration1. Proposing an Alternative History of Jihadi-Salafism2. A Brief History of Global Jihad3. Introducing Salafi Hermeneutics: Questioning the Myth of ‘Jihadi-Salafism’4. ‘Political Jurisprudence’: Theorizing the Early Caliphate (Tenth to Thirteenth Century)5. The Convergence of Legal Theory and Exegesis: Shāfiʿī-Ashʿarism and the Condemnation of Secular Rulers6. The Sharīʿa and Secularism: From the Mamlūks to Modernity7. Sultanate and Sharīʿa in Ottoman Political Thought: From Māturīdite Exegesis to post-Caliphate Nostalgia (17th-13th/14th-20th c.)8. Indian Ḥanafite Origins of Ḥākimiyya as a Decolonial Alternative9. Reinventing Legal Theory: The Salafi Revival of Literalism (18th c.) and Comparative JurisprudenceEpilogue: Retheorizing Islamic Political Thought in the Twenty-First CenturyBibliographyIndex