Roel Meijer’s edited Global Salafism: Islam’s New Religious Movement, one
of the first collected works to broadly analyze contemporary Salafism as a
global religious movement for English-speaking audiences, presents this
movement as a string of methods for approaching Islam’s canonical sources.
Its many methodological ambiguities and tactical classifications enable it to
incorporate a variety of local and international religious groups: those that reject
political participation (e.g., “Scholastic Salafis”), embrace their society’s
established political rules (e.g., “Sahwah Movement”), and seek radical transformation
often through violent means (e.g., “al-Qaeda”).
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