Understanding Salafism - Seeking the Path of the Pious Predecessors
By Yasir Qadhi

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.Inand 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.and -----Yasir Qadhiand 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.and -----Table of Contentsand List of FiguresPrefaceConventions1 and Introduction: A Bird's Eye View of Salafism2 and A Comprehensive History of Salafi Thought: From its Origins to Modernity3 and Wahhabism and Salafism4 and Salafism and Islamism: A Case Study of the Muslim Brotherhood5 and The Phenomenon of Jihadi-Salafism6 and Global Salafism in the Contemporary WorldEpilogueNotesBibliographyIndex