Salafi Social and Political Movements

Masooda Bano is Professor of Development Studies in the Department of International Development and Senior Golding Fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. She is author and editor of The Revival of Islamic Rationalism: Logic, Metaphysics, and Mysticism in Modern Muslim Societies (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Female Islamic Education Movements: The Re-democratisation of Islamic Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Modern Islamic Authority and Social Change, Volumes 1 and 2 (Edinburgh University Press (2018).

• Introduction: Salafism Today: a Break with the PastMasooda BanoPart I: Changes in Salafi Thought1. Salafism: The Core CritiquesHazim Fouad2. In Today’s Saudi Arabia: the State, the Society and the ScholarsMasooda Bano3. Islamist Salafi Discourses on Obedience and Rebellion after the Arab RevolutionsUsaama al-AzamiPart II: Salafi Movements on the Ground4. Quietist ‘Scholastic’ Salafism in Morocco since the Arab SpringGuy Eyre5. Between Da‘wa and Politics: the Changing Dynamics of Egypt’s Ansar al-Sunna, 2011–2013Neil Russell6. Salafi Leadership outside Saudi Arabia: Hakim al-Mutairi and the Umma Party of KuwaitKristin DiwanPart III: Salafi Jihadism and Inter-Group Competition7. Wahhabi Salafism versus the Islamic State: Age-Old Traditions Appropriated by Modern-day TerroristsAbdullah bin Khaled Al Saud8. Fratricidal Jihadism Revisited: the Complex Nature of Intra-Jihadi ConflictTore Hamming9. Ahrar al-Sham’s Politicisation during the Syrian ConflictJerome Drevon10. Filling Gaps Left by the Muslim Brotherhood: Experience in PalestineBelal ShobakiConclusion: Salafism in the 21st CenturyItzchak Weismann

This is great update on Salafism that provides crucial new insights into the nature of Salafism and even of Islam in general to politics and the difficult choices of combining religious purity with political participation.