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5 - How “American” Can Salafism Be?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2023

Matthew D. Taylor
Affiliation:
Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies, Maryland
Amir Hussain
Affiliation:
Loyola Marymount University, California
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5 How “American” Can Salafism Be? - This chapter takes up the topic of extremism and violence, contrasting the lives of two American Salafi shaykhs: the infamous American terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki and AlMaghrib director Waleed Basyouni. Both men’s views of violence are profoundly shaped by the American government’s reaction to 9/11, but the case of Basyouni shows how Salafism became an unthreatening, mainstream part of American Islam.

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Salafi Muslims in Evangelical Christians' America
, pp. 152 - 189
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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