However, OASIS’s life would prove to be short-lived, as by the autumn of 1996, Abu Khadeejah recalls that its founders began to fear replicating the errors of JIMAS in trying to gather callers and students under one banner.[1] To avoid risking the Daʿwah once again, they made the crucial decision to dissolve OASIS. It was at this juncture that another major turning point in the discourse of Salafism in the UK and the West occurred, as former OASIS members Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wāhid and Abu Iyād Amjad Rafiq along with British converts to Islam, Abu Talhah Dawūd Burbank and Abu Hakeem Bilal Davis, both of whom were students at the IUM at one time or another established a stronger more resilient Daʿwah. Together, they decided to establish a publishing house and focus on spreading the Salafi Daʿwah via translations of core Islamic texts from classical Arabic to English, disseminated in the form of articles, leaflets, books—and later in the internet era, online work. Their close friendship and efforts facilitated the spread of Salafism in the UK and the rest of the English-speaking world in a manner not previously seen. The name of this non-profit organisation was Salafi Publications (SalafiPubs).
[1] Abdul-Wāhid 2013.
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