The making of Salafism: Islamic reform in the Twentieth Century
New York
Columbia University Press
Religion, culture, and public life
Includes bibliographical references and index
Henri Lauziere
Being salafi in the early twentieth century -- Rashid Rida's rehabilitation of the Wahhabis and its consequences -- Purist salafism in the age of Islamic nationalism -- The ironies of modernity and the advent of modernist salafism -- Searching for a raison d'etre in the post-independence era -- The triumph and ideologization of purist salafism