ISBN:
978-0-54966278-5
,
0-54966278-2
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (VII, 447 S.)
Dissertation note:
Zugl.: Washington, DC, Georgetown Univ., Diss., 2008
Keywords:
Hilālī, Taqī al-Dīn
;
Salafīyah
;
Hochschulschrift
Abstract:
This dissertation examines the origins and development of a key religious orientation in contemporary Islamic thought. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the term "Salafiyya" was linked to a transnational movement of Islamic reform whose proponents strove to reconcile their faith with the Enlightenment and modernity. Muhammad Abduh and Rashid Rida were among its foremost representatives. Toward the end of the twentieth century, however, the Salafi movement became inexplicably antithetical to Islamic modernism. Its epicenter moved closer to Saudi Arabia and the term Salafiyya became virtually synonymous with Wahhabism. The evolution of the Salafiyya and its apparent turn from modernism to purism, within less than a century, is a phenomenon that remains shrouded in mystery and marked by contradiction. To this day, it causes recurrent problems among scholars in various disciplines who try to understand the genealogy of the movement.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
