Salafism and Jihadism

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Abu-Manneh, Butrus. “Salafiyya and the Rise of the Khālidiyya in Baghdad in the Early Nineteenth Century.” Die Welt des Islams 43.3 (2003): 349-372.

Adraoui, Mohamed-Ali. “Purist Salafism in France.” ISIM Review 21 (Spring 2008): 12-13. [open access]

Ahmed, Chanfi. West African ʿulamāʾ and Salafism in Mecca and Medina: Jawāb Al-Ifrῑqῑ - The Response of the African. Leiden: Brill, 2015.

Ahmed, Einas. “Militant Salafism in Sudan.” Islamic Africa 6.1–2 (2015): 164–84.

Al-Rasheed, Madawi. “The local & the global in Saudi Salafism.” ISIM Review 21 (Spring 2008): 8-9. open access]

Alshech, Eli. “The Doctrinal Crisis within the Salafi-Jihadi Ranks and the Emergence of Neo-Takfirism: A Historical and Doctrinal Analysis.” Islam Law and Society 21 (2014): 1–34.

AlSarhan, Saud. “The Stuggle for Authority: The Shaykhs of Jihadi-Salafism in Saudi Arabia, 1997-2003.” In Saudi Arabia in Transition: Insights on Social, Political, Economic and Religious Change, ed. Bernard Haykel, Thomas Hegghammer, and Stéphane Lacroix, 181–206. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Anonymous. “The Popular Discourses of Salafi Radicalism and Salafi Counter-Radicalism in Nigeria: A Case Study of Boko Haram.” Journal of Religion in Africa 42 (2012): 118–44.

Azumah, John. “Boko Haram in Retrospect.” Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 26, no. 1 (2015): 33–52.

Böttcher, Annabelle. “Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya as Changing Salafi Icons.” In Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law: Debating Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya, ed. Birgit Krawietz and Georges Tamer, 461-492. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013.

Bonnefoy, Laurent. Salafism in Yemen: Transnationalism and Religious Identity. London: Hurst, 2011.

Brigaglia, Andrea. “A Contribution to the History of the Wahhabi Daʿwa in West Africa: The Career and the Murder of Shaykh Jaʿfar Mahmoud Adam (Daura, Ca. 1961/1962–Kano 2007).” Islamic Africa 3.1 (2012): 1–23.

Brown, Jonathan A. C. “Is Islam Easy to Understand or Not?: Salafis, the Democratization of Interpretation and the Need for the Ulema.” Journal of Islamic Studies 26.2 (2015): 117–44.

Brown, Jonathan. The Canonization of Al-Bukhārī and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon. Leiden: Brill, 2007.

Bunzel, Cole. From Paper State to Caliphate: The Ideology of the Islamic State. Washington, DC: Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings, 2015. [pdf]

Calvert, John. Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islamism. London: Hurst & Co., 2010.

Cavatorta, Francesco, and Fabio Merone, eds. Salafism After the Arab Awakening: Contending with People’s Power. London: Hurst, 2017.

Commins, David Dean. Islamic Reform: Politics and Social Change in Late Ottoman Syria. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Commins, David. “Religious Reformers and Arabists in Damascus, 1885-1914.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 18.4 (1986): 405-25.

Commins, David. “Social Criticism and Reformist Ulama of Damascus.” Studia Islamica 78 (1993): 169-80.

Dallal, Ahmad. “Appropriating the Past: Twentieth-Century Reconstruction of Pre-Modern Islamic Thought.” Islamic Law and Society 7 (2000): 328–358.

Deol, Jeevan, and Zaheer Kazmi, eds. Contextualising Jihadi Thought. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

Duderija, Adis. “Constructing the Religious Self and the Other: Neo-traditional Salafi manhaj.” Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 21:1 (2010): 75-93.

Duderija, Adis. “Neo-traditional Salafi Qur’an-Sunnah Hermeneutic and the Construction of a Normative Muslimah Image.” Hawwa 5.2-3 (2007): 289-323.

Duderija, Adis. Constructing a religiously ideal "believer" and "woman" in Islam: Neo-traditional Salafi and progressive Muslims' methods of interpretation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Dumbe, Yunus. “The Salafi Praxis of Constructing Religious Identity in Africa: A Comparative Perspective of the Growth of the Movements in Accra and Cape Town.” Islamic Africa 2.2 (2011): 87–116.

Egerton, Frazer. Jihad in the West: The Rise of Militant Salafism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Eich, Thomas. “Questioning Paradigms: A Close Reading of ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Bayṭār's Ḥilya in order to Gain Some New Insights into the Damascene Salafiyya.” Arabica 52.3 (2005): 373-390..

Eich, Thomas. “Rejoinder: Abū l-Hudā and the Alūsis in Scholarship on Salafism: A Note on Methodology.” Die Welt des Islams 49.3-4 (2009): 466-472.

Eich, Thomas. "The Forgotten Salafī - Abūl-Hudā Aṣ-Ṣayyādī." Die Welt des Islams 43.1 (2003): 61-87.

Fattah, Hala. “‘Wahhabi’ Influences, Salafi Responses: Shaikh Mahmud Shukri and the Iraqi Salafi Movement, 1745–1930.” Journal of Islamic Studies 14.2 (2003): 127-148.

Farquhar, Michael. Circuits of Faith: Migration, Education, and the Wahhabi Mission. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2017.

Fuchs, Simon Wolfgang. “Do Excellent Surgeons Make Miserable Exegetes? Negotiating the Sunni Tradition in the ǧihādī Camps.” Die Welt des Islams 53.2 (2013): 192–237.

Fuchs, Simon Wolfgang. Proper Signposts for the Camp: The Reception of Classical Authorities in the Ğihādī Manual Al-ʿUmda Fī Iʿdād Al-ʿUdda. Würzburg: Ergon, 2011.

Gauvain, Richard. “Egyptian Sufism Under the Hammer: A Preliminary Investigation into the Anti-Sufi Polemics of ’Abd Al-Rahman Al-Wakil (1913-70).” In Sufis and Salafis in the Contemporary Age, ed. Lloyd Ridgeon, 33–57, 224–38. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.

Gauvain, Richard. Salafi Ritual Purity: In the Presence of God. London: Routledge, 2013.

Griffel, Frank. “What Do We Mean By ‘Salafī’? Connecting Muḥammad ʿAbduh with Egypt’s Nūr Party in Islam’s Contemporary Intellectual History.” Die Welt des Islams 55.2 (2015): 186–220.

Gwynne, Rosalind W. “Usama bin Ladin, the Qur’an and Jihad.” Religion 36 (2006) 61-90.

Hamid, Sadek. “The Development of British Salafism.” ISIM Review 21 (Spring 2008): 10-11. [open access]

Hamid, Sadek. Sufis, Salafis and Islamists: The Contested Ground of British Islamic Activism. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016.

Haykel, Bernard. Revival and Reform in Islam: The Legacy of Muhammad al-Shawkānī. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Høigilt, Jacob, and Frida Nome. “Egyptian Salafism in Revolution.” Journal of Islamic Studies 25.1 (2014): 33–54.

Hunter, Shireen T. Reformist Voices of Islam: Mediating Islam and Modernity. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2009.

Jansen, J. J. G. “The Creed of Sadat's Assassins: The Contents of ‘The Forgotten Duty’. Die Welt des Islams 25 (1985): 1-30. Roughly the same as Chap. 1 in Jansen, The Neglected Duty.

Jansen, Johannes J.G. “Ibn Taymiyyah and the Thirteenth Century: A Formative Period of Modern Muslim Radicalism.” Quaderni di Studi Arabi 5-6 (1987-8): 391-96.

Jansen, Johannes. The Neglected Duty: The Creed of Sadat’s Assassins and Islamic Resurgence in the Middle East. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1986. Reprint New York: RVP Press, 2013 (slightly different pagination, new appendix with facsimile of 1979-1980 Arabic text).

Kenney, Jeffrey T. Muslim Rebels: Kharijites and the Politics of Extremism in Egypt. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Kepel, Gilles. The Prophet and Pharaoh: Muslim Extremism in Egypt. Trans. Jon Rothschild. London: Al Saqi, 1985.

Lacroix, Stéphane. “Al-Albani's Revolutionary Approach to Hadith.” ISIM Review 21 (Spring 2008): 6-7. [open access]

Lauziere, Henri. “The Construction of Salafiyya: Reconsidering Salafism from the Perspective of Conceptual History.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 42 (2010): 369–389.

Lauzière, Henri. The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2016.

Lav, Daniel. Radical Islam and the Revival of Medieval Theology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Lister, Charles R. The Syrian Jihad: Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and the Evolution of an Insurgency. London: Hurst, 2015.

Mandaville, Peter. “Sufis and Salafis: The Political Discourse of Transnational Islam.” In Remaking Muslim Politics: Pluralism, Contestation, Democratization. Edited by Robert W.Hefner, 302-325. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005.

McCants, William. The ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2015.

Meijer, Roel, ed. Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement. London: Hurst & Company, 2009.

Merad, A., et al. “Iṣlāḥ.” Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition (2^nd ed.)

Michot, Yahya. “Ibn Taymiyya's “New Mardin Fatwa”. Is genetically modified Islam (GMI) carcinogenic?” The Muslim World 101.2 (2011): 130–181.

Nafi, Basheer M. "Fatwā and War: On the Allegiance of the American Muslim Soldiers in the Aftermath of September 11." Islamic Law and Society 11.1 (2004): 78-116.

Nafi, Basheer M. "Salafism Revived: Nuʿmān Al-Alūsī and the Trial of Two Aḥmads." Die Welt des Islams 49, (2009): 49-97.

Pall, Zoltan. Lebanese Salafis between the Gulf and Europe: Development, Fractionalization and Transnational Networks of Salafism in Lebanon. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013.

Pérouse de Montclos, Marc-Antoine, ed. Boko Haram: Islamism, Politics, Security and the State in Nigeria. Leiden: African Studies Centre, 2014.

Ohtsuka, Kazuo. Salafī-Orientation in Sudanese Mahdism. The Muslim World 87.1 (1997): 17-33.

Olsson, Susanne. “Proselytizing Islam — Problematizing ‘Salafism.’” The Muslim World 104.1–2 (2014): 171–97.

Onapajo, Hakeem, and Abubakar A. Usman. “Fuelling the Flames: Boko Haram and Deteriorating Christian–Muslim Relations in Nigeria.” Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs 35.1 (2015): 106–22.

Østebø, Terje. Localising Salafism: Religious Change among Oromo Muslims in Bale, Ethiopia. Leiden: Brill, 2012.

Østebø, Terje. “African Salafism: Religious Purity and the Politicization of Purity.” Islamic Africa 6.1–2 (2015): 1–29.

Renne, Elisha P. “Educating Muslim Women and the Izala Movement in Zaria City, Nigeria.” Islamic Africa 3.1 (2012): 55–86.

Rabil, Robert G. Salafism in Lebanon: From Apoliticism to Transnational Jihadism. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2014.

Ridgeon, Lloyd, ed. Sufis and Salafis in the Contemporary Age. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.

Rougier, Bernard, ed. Qu'est-ce que le salafisme? Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2008.

Scharbrodt, Oliver. "The Salafiyya and Sufism: Muḥammad ʿAbduh and His Risālat Al-Wāridāt (Treatise on Mystical Inspirations)." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 70, no. 1 (2007): 89-115.

Scott, Rachel. “An ‘official’ Islamic Response to the Egyptian Al-Jihād Movement.” Journal of Political Ideologies 8.1 (2013): 39–61.

Shinar, P., and W. Ende. “Salafiyya.” Encyclopaedia of Islam New Edition (2^nd ed.)

Sirry, Mun’im. “Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī and the Salafi Approach to Sufism.” Die Welt des Islams 51 (2011) 75-108.

Skovgaard-Petersen, Jakob, and Bettina Gräf, eds. Global Mufti: The Phenomenon of Yusuf Al-Qaradawi. London: C. Hurst & Co., 2009.

Taji-Farouki, Suha. A Fundamental Quest: Hizb al-Tahrir and the Search for the Islamic Caliphate. London: Grey Seal, 1996.

Thurston, Alex. “Abubakar Gumi’s Al-͑Aqīda Al-Ṣaḥīḥa Bi-Muwāfaqat Al-Sharī͑a: Global Salafism and Locally Oriented Polemics in a Northern Nigerian Text.” Islamic Africa 2.2 (2011): 9–21.

Thurston, Alex. “Nigeria’s Mainstream Salafis between Boko Haram and the State.” Islamic Africa 6.1–2 (2015): 109–34.

Timani, Hussam S. “The Islamic Context of Global Jihadism: Why Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328) Matters.” In Root of All Evil? Religious Perspectives on Terrorism, vol. 3, Terrorism Studies, ed. Lori B. Underwood, 31–63. New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2013.

Torelli, Stefano M. “Salafism in Tunisia: Challenges and Opportunities for Democratization.” Middle East Policy 19, no. 4 (2012): 140–154.

Wagemakers, Joas. "A Purist Jihadi-Salafi: The Ideology of Abu Muhammad Al-Maqdisi." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 36, no. 2 (2009): 281-97.

Wagemakers, Joas. A Quietist Jihadi:The Ideology and Influence of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Wagemakers, Joas. Salafism in Jordan: Political Islam in a Quietest Community. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Wagemakers, Joas. “Salafism’s Historical Continuity: The Reception of ‘Modernist’ Salafis by ‘Purist’ Salafis in Jordan.” Journal of Islamic Studies 30.2 (2019): 205-231.

Warren, David H. ‘The ʿUlamāʾ and the Arab Uprisings 2011-13: Considering Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the “Global Mufti,” between the Muslim Brotherhood, the Islamic Legal Tradition, and Qatari Foreign Policy’, New Middle Eastern Studies, 4 (2014), <http://www.brismes.ac.uk/nmes/archives/1305>

Warren, David H., and Christine Gilmore. “Rethinking neo-Salafism Through an Emerging Fiqh of Citizenship: The Changing Status of Minorities in the Discourse of Yusuf al-Qaradawi and the ‘School of the Middle Way’.” New Middle Eastern Studies 2 (2012): 1–7. [link]

Weismann, Itzchak. "Between Ṣūfī Reformism and Modernist Rationalism: A Reappraisal of the Origins of the Salafiyya from the Damascene Angle." Die Welt des Islams 41, no. 2 (2001): 206-37.

Weismann, Itzchak. "Genealogies of Fundamentalism: Salafi Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Baghdad." British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 36, no. 2 (2009): 267-80.

Weismann, Itzchak. "The Politics of Popular Religion: Sufis, Salafis, and Muslim Brothers in 20th-Century Hamah." International Journal of Middle East Studies 37, (2005): 39-58.

Weismann, Itzchak. Taste of Modernity: Sufism, Salafiyya, and Arabism in Late Ottoman Damascus. Leiden: Brill, 2001.

Wiktorowicz, Quintan. “The Salafi Movement in Jordan.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 32.1 (2000): 219-240.

Wiktorowicz, Quintan. “The Salafi Movement: Violence and the Fragmentation of Community.” In Muslim Networks: From Hajj to Hip Hop. Edited by Miriam Cooke and Bruce B. Lawrence, 208-234. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.

Youssef, Michael. Revolt against Modernity: Muslim Zealots and the West. Leiden: Brill, 1985. Includes an incomplete translation of Islamic Jihād’s Al-Farīḍa al-ghāʾiba. See Jansen, The Neglected Duty, for a better translation.