RT Book
T1 In the shade of the Sunna: Salafi piety in the twentieth-century Middle East
A1 Rock-Singer, Aaron
LA English
PP Oakland, California
PB University of Californiarnia Press
YR 2022
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1789121779
AB "This book is an intellectual and social history of Salafism that moves beyond a focus on specific organizations or a commitment to the boundaries of particular nation states to trace the emergence of distinctly Salafi social practices between 1926 and the present. Salafis explicitly base their legitimacy on the word of the Qu'ran and the Sunna alone, and scholarship has taken them at their word by treating this movement as having sprung fully forth from Islam's original teachings. Their distinctive public practices--praying in shoes, long beards, and short pants, and observing gender segregation--are thus understood to have a similarly ancient pedigree. Aaron Rock-Singer powerfully demonstrates that contemporary Salafism is in fact a creation of the twentieth century and that the movement's signature practices emerged primarily out [of] Salafis' competition with other movements amidst the intellectual and social upheavals of modernity. Drawing on a range of media forms as well as on traditional religious texts, Aaron Rock-Singer offers a three-dimensional portrait of a group often dismissed as a reactionary throwback to the past. In the Shade of the Sunna takes readers beyond the surface claims of Salafism's own proponents--and the academics who often repeat them--into the larger sociocultural and intellectual forces that have definitively shaped Islam's fastest growing revivalist movement"--
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN BP195.S18
SN 9780520382565
SN 9780520382572
K1 Salafīyah : History : 20th century
K1 Salafīyah : History : 21st century
K1 Salafīyah : Social aspects : History : 20th century