The Premodern Origins of Jihadi-Salafism
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 31 January 2026
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781399546676
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 b/w illustrations 700
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Short description:
Redefines Jihadi-Salafism by uncovering its diverse premodern influences over centuries of Islamic political thought.
MoreLong description:
What is Jihadi-Salafism and how does it relate to classical Islam? Scholars of Terrorism Studies argue that ‘Jihadism’ and Salafism are derivatives of Wahhābism and lie on the ideological margins of the Islamic tradition. This book challenges this narrative, demonstrating that concepts associated with the terms – including ‘divine sovereignty’, ‘jihad’ and ‘the caliphate’ – are utilised by Salafi Ulama in connection with the following disparate classical Islamic traditions: Shāfiʿite legal theory during the Mongol invasions; Ottoman and Indian anti-colonial Ḥanafite thought; Mālikite and Shāfiʿite ‘political jurisprudence’; and the literalism of the Yemeni luminary Muḥammad al-Shawkānī (d. 1834).
This is the first book to disaggregate linear histories of Jihadi-Salafism by shifting the focus from Wahhābism to Sunnism, including Māturīdite and Ashʿarite doctrinal schools and the ‘four schools’ of law. Based on archival research and interviews, it examines the thought of diverse Ulama, ranging from ʿAbdullah ʿAzzām to Abū Muḥammad al-Maqdisī. It highlights their profound commitment to the classical Islamic sciences, as well as their distinct interpretations of historical crises that befell the premodern Umma, ultimately articulating a vision for its future.
Table of Contents:
Dedication
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Note on Translation and Transliteration
1. Proposing an Alternative History of Jihadi-Salafism
2. A Brief History of Global Jihad
3. Introducing Salafi Hermeneutics: Questioning the Myth of ‘Jihadi-Salafism’
4. ‘Political Jurisprudence’: Theorizing the Early Caliphate (Tenth to Thirteenth Century)
5. The Convergence of Legal Theory and Exegesis: Shāfiʿī-Ashʿarism and the Condemnation of Secular Rulers
6. The Sharīʿa and Secularism: From the Mamlūks to Modernity
7. Sultanate and Sharīʿa in Ottoman Political Thought: From Māturīdite Exegesis to post-Caliphate Nostalgia (17th-13th/14th-20th c.)
8. Indian Ḥanafite Origins of Ḥākimiyya as a Decolonial Alternative
9. Reinventing Legal Theory: The Salafi Revival of Literalism (18th c.) and Comparative Jurisprudence
Epilogue: Retheorizing Islamic Political Thought in the Twenty-First Century
Bibliography
Index
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