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This book introduces the history of the rise and spread of Salafism during the 20th century as a global Islamic reform movement. It also explains Salafi tools of methodological reasoning: traditionally used to justify highly conservative positions, they now appear equally effective in defending more liberal life choices. The collection will help readers to appreciate the diversity of Salafi movements, as well as the significance of the ongoing socio-economic and political changes within Saudi Arabia and the wider Muslim world that are enabling shifts from this conservative Islamic scholarly tradition.

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"""This is great update on Salafism that provides crucial new insights into the nature of Salafism and even of Islam in general to politics and the difficult choices of combining religious purity with political participation."" -Roel Meijer, Associate Professor of Islam Studies, Radboud University"

""This is great update on Salafism that provides crucial new insights into the nature of Salafism and even of Islam in general to politics and the difficult choices of combining religious purity with political participation."" -Roel Meijer, Associate Professor of Islam Studies, Radboud University

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Masooda Bano is Professor of Development Studies in the Oxford Department of International Development and Senior Golding Fellow at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. She is author of The Rational Believer: Choices and Decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan (2012) and Female Islamic Education Movements: The Re-Democratisation of Islamic Knowledge (2017), and co-editor of Women, Leadership and Mosques: Changes in Contemporary Islamic Authority (2012) and Shaping Global Islamic Discourses: The Role of al-Azhar, al-Medina, and al-Mustafa (Edinburgh University Press, 2015, 2017).

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