New Publication: Global Salafism – Islam’s New Religious Movement

Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement

Edited by Roel Meijer

November, 2009
Cloth, 400 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-15420-8
$35.00

“Salafism” and “jihadi-Salafism” have become significant doctrinal trends in contemporary Islamic thought, yet the West largely fails to offer a sophisticated and discerning definition of these movements.

The contributors to Global Salafism carefully outline both the differences among Salafist schools and the broader currents of Islamic thought constituting this trend. Essays examine the regional manifestations of the phenomenon and its shared essential doctrines. Their analyses highlight Salafism’s inherent ambivalence and complexities, or the “out-antiquing the antique” that has brought Islamic thought into the modern age while simultaneously maintaining its relationship with an older, purer authenticity. Emphasizing the subtle, local and global aspirations within the “Salafist method,” Global Salafism investigates the movement like no other study currently available.

About the Author

Roel Meijer is an Arabist and senior lecturer in the history of the Middle East at Radboud University, Netherlands. He also heads a team at Amsterdam’s International Institute for Social History that is building an archive on social movements in the Middle East and Islamist publications on the Internet. His major works include Alienation or Integration of Arab Youth: Between Family, State, and the Street; Cosmopolitanism, Identity, and Authenticity in the Middle East; and The Quest for Modernity: Secular Liberal and Left-Wing Political Thought in Egypt, 1945-58.

Contents:
Introduction: Genealogies of Salafi sm Roel Meijer
Part 1
SALAFIST DOCTRINE
1. On the Nature of Salafi Thought and Action by Bernard Haykel
2. Between Revolution and Apoliticism: Nasir al-Din al-Albani and His Impact on the Shaping of Contemporary Salafism by Stéphane Lacroix
3. Th e Transformation of a Radical Concept: al-wala’ wa-l-bara’in the Ideology of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi by Joas Wagemakers
4. Jihadi Salafi sm and the Shi‘is. Remarks about the intellectual roots of anti-Shi‘ism by Guido Steinberg
5. Salafi sm in Pakistan: The Ahl-e Hadith Movement by Mariam Abou Zahab
Part 2
SALAFISM AND POLITICS
6. The Salafi Critique of Islamism: Doctrine, Difference and the Problem of Islamic Political Activism in Contemporary Sudan by Noah Salomon
7. Ambivalent Doctrines and Conflicts in the Salafi Movement in Indonesia by Noorhaidi
8. Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong as a Principle of Social Action: The Case of the Egyptian al-Jama‘a al-Islamiyya by Roel Meijer
9. Salafi formations in Palestine: The Limits of a De-Palestinised Milieu by Khaled Hroub
Part 3
JIHADI SALAFISM
10. Jihadi Salafi’s or Revolutionaries? On Religion and Politics in the Study of Militant Islamism by Thomas Hegghammer
11. Debates within the Family: Jihadi-Salafi Debates on Strategy, Takfir, Extremism, Suicide Bombings and the Sense of the Apocalypse by Reuven Paz
12. ‘Destructive Doctrinairians’: Abu Mus‘ab al-Suri’s Critique of the Salafi’s in the Jihadi Current by Brynjar Lia
Part 4
THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL IN SALAFISM
13. The Local and the Global in Saudi Salafi Discourse by Madawi Al-Rasheed
14. How Transnational is Salafism in Yemen? by Laurent Bonnefoy
15. Growth and Fragmentation: The Salafi Movement in Contemporary Bale, Ethiopia by Terje Østebø
Part 5
SALAFISM AND IDENTITY
16. Salafism in France: Ideology, Practises and Contradictions by Mohamed-Ali Adraoui
17. The Attraction of ‘Authentic Islam’. Salafism by and British Muslim Youth by Sadek Hamid
18. Changing Worldviews and Friendship: An Exploration of the Life Stories of Two Female Salafists in the Netherlands by Martijn de Koning

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