The Construction of Salafiyya: Reconsidering Salafism from the Perspective of Conceptual History.
The writer investigates the conceptual history of Salafism using the Salafiyya Press and Bookstore of Cairo, Egypt, as a unit of analysis. He asserts that the Salafiyya Press and Bookstore contributed to the advent of the notion of “Salafism” by giving unprecedented visibility to the term salafiyya...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 42; no. 3; pp. 369 - 390 |
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Cambridge University Press
August 2010
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| Sumario: | The writer investigates the conceptual history of Salafism using the Salafiyya Press and Bookstore of Cairo, Egypt, as a unit of analysis. He asserts that the Salafiyya Press and Bookstore contributed to the advent of the notion of “Salafism” by giving unprecedented visibility to the term salafiyya and that, through its publications and editing choices, the bookstore involuntarily played a role in shaping the contours of what constituted Salafism. He traces the evolution of the Salafiyya Press and Bookstore to reveal that the commodification of Salafi epithets fueled a enough ambiguity to facilitate the conceptual convergence of Salafism and Wahhabism as early as the 1920s. |
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