48 Facts About Salafi movement

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Salafi movement or Salafism is a reform branch movement within Sunni Islam that originated during the nineteenth century.

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The Salafi movement aimed to achieve a renewal of Muslim life and had a major influence on many Muslim thinkers and movements across the Islamic world.

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Salafi movement Muslims reject religious innovation or and support the implementation of .

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In legal matters, Salafi movement Muslims are divided between those who, in the name of independent legal judgement, reject strict adherence to the four Sunni schools of law and those who remain faithful to them, namely, the Saudi scholars, who do not follow any specific madhhab.

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Salafi movement da'wa is a methodology, but it is not a madhhab in fiqh as is commonly misunderstood.

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The followers of Salafi movement school identify themselves as Ahlul Sunna wal Jama'ah and are known as Ahl al-Hadith.

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Salafi movement thought seeks the re-orientation of Fiqh away from Taqlid and directly back to the Prophet, his Companions and the Salaf.

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Salafi movement legalism is most often marked by its departure from the established rulings of the four Sunni madhahib, as well as frequently aligning with Zahirite views mentioned by Ibn Hazm in his legal compendium Al-Muhalla.

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Notable leaders of the Salafi movement included Jamal al-Din Qasimi, 'Abd al-Razzaq al Bitar, Tahir al-Jazai'iri and Muhammad Rashid Rida .

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Salafi movement emphasizes looking up to the era of the Salaf al-Salih; who were the early three generations of Muslims that succeeded Prophet Muhammad.

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The Salafi movement revivalists were inspired by the creedal doctrines of the medieval Syrian Hanbali theologian Ibn Taymiyya, who had strongly condemned philosophy and various features of Sufism as heretical.

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In Yemen, influential scholar Muhammad ibn Ali Al-Shawkani condemned Taqlid far more fiercely, and his Salafi movement advocated radical rejection of classical Fiqh structures.

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The Salafi movement relied primarily upon the works of Hanbali theologian Ahmad Ibn Taymiyya, whose call to follow the path of Salaf, inspired their name.

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Abduh's Salafi movement sought a rationalist approach to adapt to the increasing pace of modernisation.

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Salafi movement combined the theological ideas of Sufis and Mutakallimun like Razi in his reformist works.

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Salafi movement regularly corresponded with him and received an Ijazat from Siddiq Hasan Khan, and became the leader of the Salafi trend in Iraq.

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Salafi movement scholars gathered these works and indexed them in the archives of the Zahiriyya Library, one of the most prominent Islamic libraries of the 19th century.

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The Salafi movement turn against Ibn 'Arabi and Sufism would materialize a decade later, after the First World War, under the leadership of Rashid Rida.

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Salafi movement questioned the murid-murshid relationship in mysticism, as well as the Silsilas upon which Tariqah structures were built.

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Rida's revivalist efforts contributed to the construction of a collective imagined Salafi movement community operating globally, transcending national borders.

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Salafiyya movement took a much more conservative turn under Rida's mantle and became vehemently critical of the clerical establishment.

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Salafi movement reformers hailed the medieval theologian Ibn Taymiyyah as a paragon of Sunni orthodoxy and emphasized that his strict conception of Tawhid was an important part of the doctrine of the forefathers .

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The hardening of Salafi stance was best represented by Rashid Rida's disciple Muhammad Bahjat al Bitar who made robust criticisms of speculative theology, by compiling treatises that revived the creedal polemics of Ibn Taymiyya.

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Contemporary Purist Salafism, widely known as "the Salafi Manhaj" emerged from the 1960s as an intellectual hybrid of three similar, yet distinct, religious reform traditions: the Wahhabi movement in Arabia, Ahl-i Hadith movement in India and Salafiyya movement in the Arab world of the late-19th and early 20th centuries.

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Major contemporary figures in the Salafi movement include Muhammad Nasir al-Din al-Albani, Taqi al-Din al-Hilali, ibn 'Uthaymin, Ibn Baz, Ehsan Elahi Zahir, Muhammad ibn Ibrahim, Rashid Rida, Thana Allah Amritsari, Abd al-Hamid Bin Badis, Zubair Ali Zaee, Ahmad Shakir, Saleh Al-Fawzan, Zakir Naik, Abdul-Ghaffar Hasan, Sayyid Sabiq, Salih al-Munajjid, Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Khaliq, Muhammad al-Gondalwi, etc.

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The movement is very popular amongst the followers of the Salafiyya school, and is often referred to as "mainstream Salafism".

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However, the movement is fiercely attacked by the followers of the Madkhalist strand of Quietist Salafism; who totally withdraw themselves from politics.

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Jihadi Salafi movement groups include Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Boko Haram, and the Al-Shabaab.

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All Salafi movement-Jihadists agree on the revolutionary overthrow of existing ruling order through armed Jihad; and its replacement with a Global Caliphate.

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Salafi movement started a reform movement in the remote, sparsely populated region of Najd.

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Salafi movement invited people to Tawhid and advocated purging of practices such as shrine and tomb visitation, which were widespread among Muslims.

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In Indian subcontinent, a number of Salafi movement streams exist including Ahl i Hadith and Kerala Nadvathul Mujahideen.

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Ahl-i Hadith is a religious Salafi movement that emerged in Northern India in the mid-nineteenth century.

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In recent decades the Salafi movement has expanded its presence in Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan.

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Many adherents of the Salafi movement abandoned physical Jihad and opted for political quietism.

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In 19th century British India, the revivalist Ahl-i Hadith Salafi movement had descended as a direct outgrowth and quietist manifestation of the Indian Mujahidin.

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The early leaders of the Salafi movement were the influential hadith scholars Sayyid Nazir Hussein Dehlawi and Siddiq Hasan Khan of Bhopal who had direct tutelage under the lineage of Shah Waliullah and the Indian Mujahidin Salafi movement.

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Salafi movement's father was a direct disciple of Shah 'Abd al Aziz.

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Salafi movement became profoundly influenced by the works Al-Shawkani; claiming frequent contacts with him via visions and in this way, an ijaza to transmit his works.

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Egyptian Salafi movement is one of the most influential branches of the Salafi movement which profoundly impacted religious currents across the Arab world, including the scholars of Saudi Arabia.

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Prominent scholars in the Salafi movement include Rashid Rida, Muhammad Hamid al-Fiqqi, Abd al-Razzaq 'Afifi, Sayyid Sabiq, Muhammad Khalil Harass, etc.

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In 2017 it was reported that Salafi movement doctrines are spreading among Malaysia's elite, and the traditional Islamic theology currently taught in Government schools is shifted to a Salafi movement view of theology derived from the Middle East, particularly Saudi Arabia.

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Yet since the 1980s Salafi movement preachers trained in Saudi Arabia have been able to find a niche through publishing houses that have endeavoured to translate Arabic texts from the Saudi Salafi movement scene in an attempt to change the discursive landscape of Turkish Islam.

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Preachers who had studied at the Islamic University of Madinah, and applied the Salafi movement designation, established publishing houses and charity organizations .

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Ma Debao established a Salafi movement school, called the Sailaifengye, in Lanzhou and Linxia.

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The Salafiyya movement has gained popular acceptance as a "respected Sunni tradition" in Turkey starting from the 1980s, when the Turkish government forged closer ties to Saudi Arabia.

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Salafi means any reform movement that calls for resurrection of Islam by going back to its origin.

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Salafi movement suggests that the extreme intolerance and even endorsement of terrorism manifest in the fringe elements of Wahhabism and Salafism represents a deviation from Muslim historical traditions.

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