The present paper focuses on the conflict of the two main identity maker factors for a modern Muslim woman: the Islamic rules and modernity’s manifestations. In some Middle-Eastern societies, because of the strong social religious structures and depth of the personal religious beliefs, this conflict has more severity. In this paper, with a descriptive-analytical method,...Read More

This paper examines the concept of Al-Wala‟ wal Bara‟ (herein known as WB) in the Salafi-Wahhabi ideology or Wahhabism (Arabic: Wahhabiyyah). It aims to show that the Salafi concept of WB has its roots in Wahhabism and highlight the main factors that have contributed to the development of the concept in Wahhabism in the modern...Read More

This paper examines Muhammad Saeed Al-Qahtani’s argument on the nexus between the notion of hijrah (emigration) and the Salafi concept of Al-Walā’ wal Barā’ (loyalty and disavowal) referred to here as WB. AlQahtani’s works on WB asserts that Muslims who live in a non-Muslim land and under non-Islamic political system that is solely based on...Read More

According to current-day demographic projections, Islām is poised within the next half-century to become the world‘s fastest growing faith tradition and, with this religious particularity in mind, ―American-born Black Muslims stand out from other U.S. [immigrant] Muslims in several ways … fully two-thirds are converts to Islām, compared with just one-in-seven among all other U.S....Read More