Abstract: Modern-day terrorist groups are widely identified as Salafi. Yet, the often-insinuated causal link between Salafism and violence or ultraconservatism is not tenable, and botches any attempt to understand both Salafism and militancy. More generally, the temptation to score polemical points in perennial theological disputes between Sunnis and Shi’a, Wahhabis and Sufis, Salafis and Ash’aris, and […]
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