Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Being Salafi in the Early Twentieth Century 27
6. 2. Rashid Rida’s Rehabilitation of the Wahhabis and Its Consequences 60
7. 3. Purist Salafism in the Age of Islamic Nationalism 95
8. 4. The Ironies of Modernity and the Advent of Modernist Salafism 130
9. 5. Searching for a Raison d’Être in the Postindependence Era 163
10. 6. The Triumph and Ideologization of Purist Salafism 199
11. Conclusion 231
12. Notes 243
13. Bibliography 283
14. Index 303