TY - JOUR AU - Kamali, Mohammad Hashim PY - 2016/10/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Salafism, Wahhabism and Radical Islam JF - ICR Journal JA - ICR Journal VL - 7 IS - 4 SE - Viewpoints DO - 10.52282/icr.v7i4.234 UR - https://icrjournal.org/index.php/icr/article/view/234 SP - 542-544 AB - <p>Although the term ‘Salafism’ has sometimes been applied to certain nineteenth to twentieth-century Islamic modernist thinkers, including the Egyptian Grand Mufti Mohammad ‘Abduh (d.1905) and Rashid Rida (d.1935), Salafism actually takes its origins from Ibn Taymiyyah’s (d.728/1328) essentially deconstructionist stance towards Islam’s scholastic legacy. In essence, Ibn Taymiyyah maintained that any position or ruling issued by a <em>madhhab</em> should be considered circumspect and unacceptable if not directly supported by a hadith text. On this basis, he denounced a number of common religious practices as ‘pernicious innovations’ (<em>bid’ah</em>) because they could not be traced to the hadith. Instead, he called for a return to what he believed to be the norms of the first two or three generations of Muslims - that is, to the norms of the <em>al-salaf al-salih</em> (‘righteous forebears’), hence the word ‘Salafi’. Ibn Taymiyyah believed that every apparent conflict between the Qur’an and Sunnah had been resolved either in the hadith or by a statement from the <em>Salaf</em>, effectively making the Qur’an completely subject to them.</p> ER -