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The Salafis.

Publication: APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map
Publication Date: 11-JUN-07
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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It is important to note that in the 18th century AD the Sunni world - constituting the bulk of the Muslims, even today the Shi'ites only account for about 10-12% of the Muslim world - featured a reformist movement led by Shaikh Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahhab. His was a Salafi movement (al-Salafiya...

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...in Arabic refers to the purist ancestors of the Sunnis, as against post-656 innovations in Islam including Shi'ism) later called Wahhabism. Eventually, puritan branches of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) came to be known as Salafis, as in the case of Sayyed Qutub in the 1950s who founded an extremist movement today...

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