Description
Book SynopsisSalafis explicitly base their legitimacy on continuity with the Quran and the Sunna, and their distinctive practicespraying in shoes, wearing long beards and short pants, and observing gender segregationare understood to have a similarly ancient pedigree. In this book, however, Aaron Rock-Singer draws from a range of media forms as well as traditional religious texts to demonstrate that Salafism is a creation of the twentieth century and that its signature practices emerged primarily out of Salafis' competition with other social movements amid the intellectual and social upheavals of modernity. In the Shade of the Sunna thus takes readers beyond the surface claims of Salafism's own proponentsand the academics who often repeat theminto the larger sociocultural and intellectual forces that have shaped Islam's fastest growing revivalist movement.
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In the Shade of the Sunna [is] an indispensable reference for those interested in Salafism or Islam and, more broadly, for those intent on exploring the complicated but nevertheless constitutive entanglements between religious tradition and modernity." * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
The Ethics of an Orphan Image
A Note on Transliteration and Spelling
Introduction
1. The Roots of Salafism: Strands of an Unorthodox Past, 1926–1970
2. Conquering Custom in the Name of Tawhid: The Salafi Expansion of Worship
3. Praying in Shoes: How to Sideline a Practice of the Prophet
4. The Salafi Mystique: From Fitna to Gender Segregation
5. Leading With a Fist: The Genesis and Consolidation of a Salafi Beard
6. Between Pants and the Jallabiyya: The Adoption of Isbal and the Battle for Authenticity
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
