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Salafism. Salafism (Arabic: السلفية) is a social and religious movement that emerged within Sunni Islam. According to Salafis, the solution to the problems of the Muslim world is to follow the "salaf," i.e., the early Muslims. Referring to a hadith of the Prophet (s), they consider the first three generations of Muslims to be the best ...
Takfiri ( Arabic: تَكْفِيرِيّ, takfīriyy lit. "excommunicational") is an Arabic and Islamic term denoting a Muslim who excommunicates one of his/her coreligionists, i.e. who accuses another Muslim of being an apostate. [1] [2] [3] [4]
Several prominent men among the Salafist converts returned to Afghanistan and formed small localized states with fellow Afghan Salafists, often again with the aid of foreign backers. In Nuristan province, Mawlawi Afzal formed the Islamic Revolutionary State of Afghanistan. In Kunar province, Jamil al-Rahman, a former Hezb-e-Islami Gulbuddin ...
The ideology of the Islamic State, sometimes called Islamic Statism, has been described as being a hybrid of Salafism, Salafi jihadism, [1] [2] Sunni Islamist fundamentalism, [3] Wahhabism, [4] [5] and Qutbism. [6] [7] [8] Through its official statement of beliefs originally released by its first leader Abu Omar al-Baghdadi in 2007 and ...
Hassan Hattab was a regional commander of Armed Islamic Group (GIA). He broke with the GIA in 1998, and formed the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), in protest over the GIA's massacre of civilians. After an amnesty in 1999, many former GIA fighters laid down their arms, but a few remained active, including members of the GSPC. [5]
Salafi-Sufi debates are often called "polemical". [6] Both Sufis and Salafis are unequivocal against modernist approaches to Islam and condemn any form of Hadith rejectionist tendencies. For Sufis, the shaykh or murshid yields unrivalled spiritual authority and anyone who opposes them is heretic.
The local population, made up of Qataris, are all Muslims although there are high numbers of foreign workers in Qatar which varies the Muslim population. According to the CIA World Factbook, as of 2010 an estimated 67.7% of the population is Muslim, while 13.8% is Christian, another 13.8% Hindu, and 3.1% Buddhist. [2]
