Ethnography
Salvation in Salafism
Muslim-Heritage Converts to Salafism
MH Salafi converts comprised the largest section of my cohort: there were 19 in total, and more ethnically and nationally diverse than their NMH counterparts. Here too, the nature and extent of religious experience before […]
Salvation in Salafism
Non-Muslim-Heritage Converts to Salafism
Conversion narratives of NMH females show that despite political discourse shifting towards denigrating Muslim women in the West, where visible and “veiled Muslim women in particular emerge as ideal targets for those who wish to […]
Salvation in Salafism
Seeking Salvation in Salafism
The articles to follow are derived from the first empirical chapter of my doctoral research which examined the social-cultural characteristics of the women who took part in this study. It focuses on the common themes […]
History: Salafism in the West
Islam as a Public Identity
As the protests ensuing the publication of Salman Rushdie’s (1988) Satanic Verses[1] aptly showed, the 1980s and 1990s were indeed ‘a confusing time to be a young Muslim in Britain’. [2] This is because the […]
History: Salafism in the West
Ahl al-Bidʿah Raise Their Heads
Further, what caused these deviated religious methodologies to rise from their slumber in the 1990s was the Saudi Government’s ‘controversial decision to allow an infidel army’—US troops to set up military bases inside the Kingdom […]
History: Salafism in the West
Bosnian War Fuels Campus Activism
Consequently, UK college and university campus Islamic Societies (ISocs) became an ideal space to explore and develop a new kind of Islam during this period and would go on to play a significant role in […]
History: Salafism in the West
Extremists Target Alienated Youth
However, the seeming ‘radicalisation’ of Muslim youth—either on, or off, college and university campuses cannot be attributed to demographic trends alone. Rather, as Scantelbury (2012) notes, British authorities had left the door ‘wide open for […]
History: Salafism in the West
JIMAS Diverges from Salafism’s Creed
However, whilst charisma and eloquence in the English language have been cited as Abu Muntasir’s mainstay for inspiring a vibrant youth movement among a burgeoning second generation of British Muslims, [1] his daʿwah failed to […]
History: Salafism in the West
Abu Muntasir Joins the Khawārij
Neo-Qutubists like Salman al-ʿAwdah and Safar al-Hawāli who were propagating the political ideology of Sayyid Qutb among the youth, went on to be labelled ‘the Khawārij of the era’ by the reviver (mujaddid) and learned […]