Evidently, Abu Muntasir favoured the ideology of preachers such as Ali Tamīmī[1] who would eventually receive a life sentence for inciting his congregation in the United States to fight in Afghanistan on the side of […]
Additionally, crucial to Salafism’s development as a revivalist group was the fact that it coincided with the study and return of several British students from the Islamic University of Madinah (IUM) in Saudi Arabia, such […]
Undeniably, among the most prominent of these British students to return from their studies in the Muslim lands was the late Shaykh Abu Talhah Dawūd Burbank (may Allah’s mercy be upon him). An English convert […]
During Salafism’s formative years specifically, it was both Abu Talhah and Abu Iyād’s translations of refutations (rudūd) of hybridised and hyphenated versions of Salafiyyah—refutations which were written by some senior Salafi scholars of the time, […]
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 […]
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