دانلود کتاب درباره سلفی گری – مفاهیم و زمینه ها

The term Salafism (Salafiyya) raises more critical questions than common usage suggests. It is this issue that I am interested in when I repose the question, What is Salafism? This question might appear simple, but it is nonetheless useful to deconstruct it and consider it in depth due to the widespread careless, simplistic, and reductionist use of the term. This book explores and answers this question critically. The simplest and most succinct definition of Salafism is the return to original sources—the Qurʾan and the Sunna (accounts of the Prophet Muhammad’s daily life and practice)—and the rejection of “innovation” (bidʿa and muḥdathāt). However, Salafism is not a single or singular phenomenon. If we dig deeper, we discover that the term Salafism is a purely historical designation that refers to a variety of Sunni and Shiʿi “Salafisms.” Within each of these threads, one can identify several “sub-Salafisms” or even distinct schools of thought. Although the dominant usage today, whether in Middle Eastern studies or in Islamists’ own texts, refers to a homogeneous and coherent body of ideas, historically the return to the righteous Salaf was not always a part of the production of a specific ideology. Just as there was a surge of interest