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 […]

Although the history of contemporary Salafism in the UK can be traced back to the late 1980s in one form or another, its emergence as a ‘revivalist sect’ was taken to new heights with the […]

Although the emergence of Salafism during the 1990s is mostly attributable to student activity in university Islamic societies across the UK,[1] it was not only upwardly mobile second-generation Muslim-heritage British South Asians who were attracted […]

By the time SalafiPubs (2005/2006) had translated and published about 40 books, Shaykh Abu Khadeejah also began translating classical Arabic texts to English which fellow teachers, Shaykh Abu Talhah Dawūd Burbank, and Shaykh Abu ‘Iyād […]