...Zachary Wright The publication of Rudolph Ware's The Walking Qur'an revives the debate surrounding fundamentally divergent understandings of Islamic identity, the epistemological divide between Salafism and traditionally trained African Muslim scholars. This article extends Ware's findings...

... new ways of understanding Salafism beyond common depictions as critical of nontextual sources and intolerant of modern formations. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 Islamic healing Salafism evidence epistemology Islam and science “What is your evidence?” Repeated time...

..., providing templates widely replicated during the Cold War. Second, the abortive attempt to instrumentalize his stature in the service of state-legitimation by drawing on preexisting cosmopolitanisms. Though his overzealous commitment to “puritan” Salafism initially curtailed this potential, it soon proved...

... and not during the beginnings of of Islam noir was egregiously racist. colonial rule, is as racist as any of Marty’s writing. Racism is ideologically excluded from Salaf- Admittedly, he writes in terms of “gradations,” im- ism, although of course individual Salafis are no plying that Islam in Africa...

... and of knowledge transmission that and the Salaf (the pious first generation of Mus- can be considered a prophetic teaching. lims) without adding to it or subtracting from it. Ware’s history and anthropology of the walk- Well, all schools of thought have an equal right...

... tradition and modernist puritanical Wahhabi Salafism sweeping through West Muslim African societies. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 West Africa classical Quran school embodiment Islamic thoughts critical Islamic literacy and epistemologies emancipatory citizenship References...

....” knowledge practices and epistemology of contem- Here Alidou has grasped an insight I never porary Salafism are rooted as much in European found the words to express: Quran schools are post-­Enlightenment rationalism as in the classical sites where the textual worlds of Islamic scholar- scholarly...

... ancestors (Salaf al-Salih), members were inclined to stand distinctly apart from the “anything goes” open society around them. They lived in small, exclusive tight-knit communities. Under the changing political circumstances of the 1990s the movement evolved rapidly, to the extent that it succeeded...

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..., for example, “to root out Salafi thought from our milieu” or for declaring that “our culture must follow the culture of the Other [the West]” and that the adoption of Western models was the only “way for salvation.” 25 Jabiri, who thought that Salafism was not necessarily more threatening than...

..., and the Problem of Islamic Politi- Reinstatement of Tradition. Leiden: Brill, 2002. cal Action in Contemporary Sudan.” In Global Salaf- Kobo, Ousman. Unveiling Modernity in Twentieth-­Century ism: Islam’s New Religious Movement, edited by Roel West...

... that “Salafism,” or any other Islamic movement for that matter, reduces Islam to Text and that only Sufis and Islamic philosophers do not. However, I would suggest that Pre-text and Con-text are still Text-centered notions, since they do refer to textuality. If the Quran itself is not reducible to a text...

... and the Destiny of Egypt al-Fath­ . Published by the Salaf Publishing House Again, Cairo — with its multitude of political ac- and Bookstore in Cairo (Dār al-ma­ .tba3a al-­salafyya tors and burgeoning print culture — provided wa maktabiha), this periodical self-­identifed...

... Commission for Egypt and Sudan to Gov-Gen of Sudan. 40. Lovejoy and Hogendorn, Slow Death for Slavery . 41. Miers, “Slavery and Slave Trade.” 42. Garba, The Time Has Come , 211; Ahmed, West African ‘Ulama and Salafism . 43. Birks, Across the Savannas to Mecca , 19. 44...

... . 60. Rancière, Ignorant Schoolmaster , 72 . 61. Carapico, Civil Society in Yemen ; Vom Bruk, Islam, Memory, and Morality ; Bonnefoy, Salafism in Yemen ; Yadav, Islamists and the State ; Dresch, Tribes, Government, and History ; Messick, The Calligraphic State ; Messick...

... authority was crystallized. The actors fication” of Islam by a return to the supposedly un- in this contest all sought to establish and to extend corrupted fundamentals of the “pious ancestors” (al- their claimed authority through educational appara- salaf al-sâlih, whence the movement’s Arabic appella...

... generative: “an essential dimension of the world, society and the soul” that must be affirmed against xenophobic populism and Salafism alike. 47 The very centrality of absence in regional thought and art rebuffs critiques that to think absence beyond material violence is to dabble in abstraction. 48...

... Studies of (and sometimes motivated) tendencies in popular discourse to employ terms like Wahhabism and Salafism as synonyms for any and all manifestations of political Islam. Amid ongoing e orts to better understand Wahhabism — or simply...

...,” and that “if any nakhoda approaches him with money owed, he is to hand it over to the aforementioned creditors, and that he is to also hand over any pearls that he receives from the dive.” The contract ends by declaring that “the aforementioned amount [i.e., the Rs 39,000] is for the salaf and tisqam [i.e...

... an article about the topic, “Embod- and the Middle East 29 (2009): 82. 63. Salafism thus denotes the wish to emulate the ied Resistances in Sudan: Everyday Reimaginations of piety of the first...