Description
This book introduces the history of the rise and spread of Salafism during the 20th century as a global Islamic reform movement. It also explains Salafi tools of methodological reasoning: traditionally used to justify highly conservative positions, they now appear equally effective in defending more liberal life choices. The collection will help readers to appreciate the diversity of Salafi movements, as well as the significance of the ongoing socio-economic and political changes within Saudi Arabia and the wider Muslim world that are enabling shifts from this conservative Islamic scholarly tradition.
Author: Masooda Bano
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 05/22/2023
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9781474479134
ISBN10: 1474479138
BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Islam | Sunni
- History | Middle East | Arabian Peninsula
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Radicalism
About the Author
Masooda Bano is Professor of Development Studies in the Oxford Department of International Development and Senior Golding Fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. She is author of The Rational Believer: Choices and Decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan (2012) and Female Islamic Education Movements: The Re-Democratisation of Islamic Knowledge (2017), and co-editor of Women, Leadership and Mosques: Changes in Contemporary Islamic Authority (2012) and Shaping Global Islamic Discourses: The Role of al-Azhar, al-Medina, and al-Mustafa (Edinburgh University Press, 2015, 2017).