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Shiʿite Salafism?
This book is about the emergence of a stream of ideas in the 1930s and 1940s within Imamiyya Shiʿite context, focusing primarily on the thought of...
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Anti-Polytheism
This chapter examines Sangelaji’s relationship to Wahhabism and Salafism. Like Wahhabis and Salafis, Sangelaji saw his mission to fight against...
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Authentic Islam
One of the issues addressed in this chapter is how we should understand Sangelaji’s internal, intra-religious critique. This study shows that...
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Identity, Religion, and Radicalization
This chapter sets the scene for the entire book, which is based on a qualitative study involving fifty-one in-depth interviews with American Muslims...
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Mosques and Muslims in Southeast Asia: An Introduction
Despite its culturally vibrant diversity and economically growing society, since September 11, 2001, Southeast Asian mosques and Muslims in this...
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Introduction
This book seeks to investigate the sharp criticism directed at Imāmiyyah Shīʿite theology delivered by the Iranian Shīʿite theologian Shriʿat...
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Sectarianism and National Cohesion Sunni Political Activism in Iran
In recent decades, Sunni Muslims in Iran (estimated at 8–10% of the total population) have sought to reconfigure their status by creating a political...
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Covert Violence: Counting Cultural Trauma at the Intersection of ATR, Islam, and Neoliberalism in Africa
This chapter will deal with the relationship between trauma and mental health of loss of culture and will hopefully put another nail in the coffin to...
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Islam in the Maghreb: Between Sufis and Salafis
This chapter examines the major Islamic groups in three North African countries, namely, Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. It analyzes the Maghrebi...
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Islamic Reform Movements and Mosque-State Relations: Prospects and Realities
In a presentation at the annual conference of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR) at Baylor University in 2004, I presented a paper...
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Return to the Qurʾan
This chapter highlights Sangelaji’s self-image according to which he saw himself as a reformer of Imāmiyyah Shīʿite theology. An important component...
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Conclusion: Not an Excess of Religion, But a Lack of Humanity—In Search of “Mainstream Islam”
This chapter provides a recap of this volume’s major themes beginning with a discussion of the question of “religious extremism” in Islam. The use of...
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The Violent Wahhabism and the Use of Islamic Texts to Justify Armed Violence Against Muslims and Non-Muslims
This chapter explores how one of the main historical figures and ideological references of current jihadism, Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd Al-Wahhāb, used the...
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Western Complicity in Non-Western Mandated “Covering”
This chapter documents the decimation of Muslim women’s bodies through laws that enforce covering where Islamic fundamentalism both Sunni and Shia,...
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Islamophobic Agenda: An Analysis of Media Representation of Radicalization and Terrorism in Kenya Since 2000
This chapter explores how the media framed and represented terrorism and radicalization into violent extremism along the East Africa region within...
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The Legacy
Sangelaji died in the early 1940s. He met with a storm of criticism and condemnation during his lifetime and afterwards. The question is what...
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Islam in Kurdistan: Religious Communities and Their Practices in Contemporary Northern Iraq
“Kurdish Islam” – what is that? The adjective is derived from a noun that names a people and their languages living in Eastern Anatolia, Northeastern...
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Introduction
Both violence and religion have been permanent and pervasive features of human cultures, but their expressions, scope, and intensity are endlessly...
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Hadith Corpus
The traditional collections of hadith we have inherited were begun and completed roughly 200 and 300 years after the Prophet’s death, respectively....
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Psychological Perspectives on Radicalization
Through the insights of the participants in this study, this chapter tries to understand why some radicalized Muslims have committed acts of...