DEVS 292 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Salaf, Deobandi
24 Nov 2016
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Theory the lense that we pick to study something. Prophet refers to salaf al-salih or pious ancestors: salafis reject forms of philosophy, rejection of sectarianism and jurisprudential pluralism the mystical variant of islam. Represents an effort to purify islam of external and cultural influences and return to the model of the. Wahhabism is not the same as salafism. Wahhabism comes from wahhab, influenced by ibn yaymiyya. 3 forms of salafism with social and political activism: salafi jihadists. Much of focus has been centred on jihadists. Important to differentiate between salafi religious doctrine and political salafism. Period of taliban(cid:495)s rule in afghanistan 1996-2001 (cid:498)time of the gunmen(cid:499) when the communist government fell, afghanistan entered a dark rival period of. Afghanistan became the subject of cold war contention between the us and soviet union civil war between mujahedeen warlords. Taliban meaning students emerged as an organized movement. Strict moral code affiliated with the deobandi movement.
