Salafi Political Theology
Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-49558-5 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-49558-5 (ISBN)
Salafi Islam, whose radical wing is today affiliated with groups such as al-Qaʿida and the Islamic State, has a long history, and is particularly indebted to Ibn Taymiyya's (d. 1328) doctrine of tawhid. This study examines key doctrines of radical salafi thought, considering both its premodern and modern intellectual history.
Salafism is a theological movement whose radical wing is today affiliated with al-Qaʿida and the Islamic State, but which draws on precedents stretching back to the medieval theology of Ibn Taymiyya. This innovative study focuses on the concept of theonomy in salafi thought: the tenet that rule by God's law is an essential component of faith, and the corresponding notion that other forms of rule based on human legislation are inherently polytheistic and thereby illegitimate. It is this tenet which furnishes radical militants with their principal casus belli against ruling regimes in the Muslim world. In this book, Daniel Lav details the intellectual grounding for modern salafi theonomy in Ibn Taymiyya's doctrine of tawhid and the writings of the early Wahhabi movement, in addition to the twentieth-century thought of Abu al-Aʿla Mawdudi and Sayyid Quṭb, while drawing on insights from comparative political theology to analyze this key school of thought.
Salafism is a theological movement whose radical wing is today affiliated with al-Qaʿida and the Islamic State, but which draws on precedents stretching back to the medieval theology of Ibn Taymiyya. This innovative study focuses on the concept of theonomy in salafi thought: the tenet that rule by God's law is an essential component of faith, and the corresponding notion that other forms of rule based on human legislation are inherently polytheistic and thereby illegitimate. It is this tenet which furnishes radical militants with their principal casus belli against ruling regimes in the Muslim world. In this book, Daniel Lav details the intellectual grounding for modern salafi theonomy in Ibn Taymiyya's doctrine of tawhid and the writings of the early Wahhabi movement, in addition to the twentieth-century thought of Abu al-Aʿla Mawdudi and Sayyid Quṭb, while drawing on insights from comparative political theology to analyze this key school of thought.
Daniel Lav is a lecturer in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research focuses on Islamic theology, with a particular emphasis on the salafi tradition of Sunni Islam. Salafi Political Theology continues the exploration of Salafī intellectual history begun in his previous book, Radical Islam and the Revival of Medieval Theology (Cambridge, 2012).
Introduction; 1. Monolatry in Ibn Taymiyya's theological system; 2. Monolatry in eighteenth-century revivalism; 3. Theonomy in premodern Salafī jurisprudence; 4. Mawdūdī and Quṭb: the theonomic shift; 5. Salafī Jihādī theonomy.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.09.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 712 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-49558-3 / 1108495583 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-49558-5 / 9781108495585 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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