The Emergence of Salafism in the UK

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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 entry of Salafi Publications (SPubs) onto the religious landscape in the mid to late 1990s. Nearly thirty years on in 2022, Salafi Publications (Al-Maktabah As-Salafiyyah) has attracted tens of thousands of adherents to Salafism’s Creed and Methodology just in the UK alone, and become a ‘blueprint’ for a transnational network of similar organisations with devout followers (of the Salafi Methodology) in communities all over the (English-speaking) world. Arguably the first publishing house in the Western world to produce consistent authentic Islamic material in the English language, SPubs, which is based in the post-industrial and post-secular city of Birmingham (UK), has played a pivotal role in the renewal of orthodox Islam in the English-speaking world, North and South.

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