In 1998 Al-Maktaba as-Salafiyyah, a registered charity bookstore and Islamic centre was established and a pre-school for children up to the age of seven started in the converted classrooms upstairs. Not only was the bookstore […]
About a year later, in 2002, Abu ‘A’ishah Sa’eed Alam—an ex-JIMAS member and the older brother of SalafiPubs pioneer Shaykh Abu Khadeejah ‘Abdul-Wāhid Alam founded a secondary school, Redstone Educational Academy on Langley Road, which […]
Umm Talhah (may Allah’s mercy be upon her) too is remembered as ‘a caring and careful mother—a joyful character who loved her children and cared immensely for the Sunnah and its implementation in the home’.[1] […]
Over the next two decades or so (1997 onwards), Shaykh Abu Khadeejah (alongside Shaykh Abu Hakeem and Abu Maryam Tāriq) made annual visits as a teacher and ‘Umrah guide for Five Pillars ‘Umrah Tours and […]
Despite their success as a reliable hub for the Salafi da’wah in the West, opposers of the Salafi Da‘wah have, however, taken aim at some of SalafiPubs’s pioneers such as Abu ‘Iyād Amjad Rafiq and […]
Of the earliest from a Muslim heritage background to adopt Salafiyyah in the early 1990s who would later go on to become a founder of SalafiPubs was Abu Khadeejah ‘Abdul-Wāhid, also a ‘Brummie’ and a […]
As for Shaykh Abu Khadeejah, although he too did not formally attend an Islamic university such as UIM in Madinah—mainly because of family commitments and because he had passed the strict age limit to make […]
Whilst the new Salafi Bookstore on Coventry Road opened almost immediately, the Salafi Mosque would take nearly nine months to be ready for use. By 2001, the building adjacent to and connecting to the Salafi […]
Shaykh Abu Hakeem Bilal Davis and Shaykh Abu Talhah Dawūd Burbank (may Allah have mercy on him) have also been snubbed for not having fully completed their studies at IUM. However, the very fact that […]
In reflecting upon the significance of SalafiPubs’s role for in clarifying the Salafi Da’wah in the UK over the past two decades, a period which he also refers to as an ‘era of the Scholars’, […]
Copyright 2024 Researching Salafism: all rights reserved.