Post by Abu Zaid on Jul 31, 2017 20:09:24 GMT
What is Salafism?
Modern-day terrorist groups are widely identified as Salafi. Yet, the often-insinuated causal link between Salafism and violence or ultraconservatism is not tenable, and botches any attempt to understand both Salafism and militancy. More generally, the temptation to score polemical points in perennial theological disputes between Sunnis and Shi’a, Wahhabis and Sufis, Salafis and Ash’aris, and conservatives and progressives serves to obscure a most desperately needed understanding of the growing nightmare that is terrorism. Apart from turning obscure disputes into war cries, such tendentious scholarship—suffer as it does form the fallacy that theology determines social reality—fails to see the flexible and complex roles ideologies play in fueling social and military movements and overlooks real and growing sources of violence.
Read more : muftah.org/what-is-salafism
The six part collection of articles titled "Special Collection: Salafism, Wahhabism, and the War on Terror" can be accessed from here - muftah.org/special-collection-salafism-wahhabism-and-the-war-on-terror
