In the shade of the Sunna : Salafi piety in the twentieth-century Middle East / Aaron Rock-Singer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rock-Singer, Aaron, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salafīyah--History--20th century.

Salafīyah.

Salafīyah--History--21st century.

Salafīyah--Social aspects--History--20th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xix, 255 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Rock-Singer, Aaron. In the shade of the sunna

ISBN:

9780520382565

0520382560

9780520382572

0520382579

OCLC:

1280274715

Publisher Number:

99991312205