Understanding Salafism: Seeking the Path of the Pious Predecessors
Jun 2025 · Simon and Schuster
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A comprehensive overview of the most misunderstood movement in modern Islam: Salafism.
The Salafi movement invokes fear and dread in outsiders who treat Salafism as synonymous with religious extremism. For Salafis themselves, it’s a jealously guarded title, always in danger of dilution. Salafism has changed the face of Islam; its ideas reach far outside its own ranks. Yet popular portrayals never go beyond hackneyed stereotypes.
In Understanding Salafism, Dr Yasir Qadhi delves into the origins of the movement, from the earliest debates in Islam to Salafism today, in both the Western and Islamic worlds. In an analysis covering Salafism in the Middle East, Europe, the United States and Africa, he illuminates Salafism’s theological ideas, the debates within Salafism about political participation, and its relationship to other schools in Sunni Islam.
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Yasir Qadhi is a resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center in Texas, and dean of the Islamic Seminary of America. He is one of the few people who has combined a traditional Eastern Islamic seminary education with Western academic training in the study of Islam.
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Table of Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Conventions
1 Introduction: A Bird’s Eye View of Salafism
2 A Comprehensive History of Salafi Thought: From its Origins to Modernity
3 Wahhabism and Salafism
4 Salafism and Islamism: A Case Study of the Muslim Brotherhood
5 The Phenomenon of Jihadi-Salafism
6 Global Salafism in the Contemporary World
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
The Salafi movement invokes fear and dread in outsiders who treat Salafism as synonymous with religious extremism. For Salafis themselves, it’s a jealously guarded title, always in danger of dilution. Salafism has changed the face of Islam; its ideas reach far outside its own ranks. Yet popular portrayals never go beyond hackneyed stereotypes.
In Understanding Salafism, Dr Yasir Qadhi delves into the origins of the movement, from the earliest debates in Islam to Salafism today, in both the Western and Islamic worlds. In an analysis covering Salafism in the Middle East, Europe, the United States and Africa, he illuminates Salafism’s theological ideas, the debates within Salafism about political participation, and its relationship to other schools in Sunni Islam.
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Yasir Qadhi is a resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center in Texas, and dean of the Islamic Seminary of America. He is one of the few people who has combined a traditional Eastern Islamic seminary education with Western academic training in the study of Islam.
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Table of Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Conventions
1 Introduction: A Bird’s Eye View of Salafism
2 A Comprehensive History of Salafi Thought: From its Origins to Modernity
3 Wahhabism and Salafism
4 Salafism and Islamism: A Case Study of the Muslim Brotherhood
5 The Phenomenon of Jihadi-Salafism
6 Global Salafism in the Contemporary World
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Yasir Qadhi is a resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center in Texas, and dean of the Islamic Seminary of America. He is one of the few people who has combined a traditional Eastern Islamic seminary education with Western academic training in the study of Islam. He has a bachelor’s degree from the Islamic University of Madinah, a master’s from the College of Dawah, and a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. He lives in Dallas, Texas.
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