Further, the roots of Islamic Da’wah activity in Birmingham—a city which arguably stands out as the heart and soul of Salafi Da’wah in Britain and the West, also played a pivotal role as a precursor […]
Meanwhile, as Muslim identity politics began to manifest itself in the assertive mobilisation and ‘increasingly confident participation of Muslims in student politics,’[1] it was fortunate that jihadism was not the only movement on the campus […]
Notably, the first ever OASIS-organised Salafi conference to take place in the UK in the post-JIMAS era was at the Amanah Muath Trust on Stratford Road in Birmingham in August 1996. Coincidentally, it was also […]
Two lectures that stood out which marked a significant turning point for Salafi daʿwah in the UK were: Deviant Sects of the Twentieth Century by Shaykh Muhammad bin Hādi, and Who are the Salafis? by […]
Second-generation Muslim students splitting from JIMAS illustrates an important point: not all Muslims in Europe at this time were ‘angry’ and seeking recourse in the form of violence or revolution as suggested by Leiken (2012) […]
Salafi groups worldwide experienced intergroup conflict over theological differences and many found themselves tasked in their respective roles and locations in the battle against a Qutubist domination in the West. In the USA, one such […]
Another individual who also worked tirelessly to translate material directly from the Salafi scholars in the battle against the Qutubists was Shaykh Dr Abu ʿIyād Amjad Rafiq.[1] At the time, Abu ʿIyād was the head […]
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 […]
Whilst SalafiPubs has become an epicenter for a grassroots Islamic revival in the West, a detailed study of British Salafism’s history shows that its origins were humble and began life when a small group of […]
As firsthand accounts from Salafi Duʿāt (Callers) and Bowen’s (2014) study confirm, problems with Abu Muntasir first began when ‘by the early 1990s leading Salafis around the world were competing for JIMAS’s loyalty’; these Salafis […]
Copyright 2024 Researching Salafism: all rights reserved.