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Islamic Politics
Midterm Salafism
Question | Answer |
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What is Salafism? | Refers to a form of fundamentalism |
What do Salafists partake in? | Partake in the Emulation of pious ancestors by emulating their practices and look very different from non-Salafis Muslims. |
What do Salafists look like? | Men wear long white gown, woman are fully covered, men have long beards |
What do Salafists rely on? | They rely exclusively on sources of the Qur’an and the Hadith with the goal of purifying Islam. |
Features of the Salafi approach are what? | Tawhid, strict reliance of Qur'an, and the rejection of sectarianism |
What is Tawhid? | recognition of one God |
What do they reject? | They reject legal precedent and new interpretation of the Qur’an as well as living modernly because Mohammad and his followers did not live this way |
Salafi quietists | Don’t have any political goals and one group is labeled Alloofists. They also believe the perfect Islamic society will emerge from Islamic education not politics |
Salafi Islamists | Believe in violence in very specific circumstances but not often and pursue Islamic political order through politics. |
Salafi Islamists are influenced by who? | The Muslim brotherhood |
Salafi Jihadists | Are politically active and believe they must engage in violence to create a united Islamic society |
Examples of Salafi Jihadists? | Isis, Al-Qaeda, and Taliban |