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Salafis explicitly base their legitimacy on continuity with the Quran and the Sunna, and their distinctive practices—praying in shoes, wearing long beards and short pants, and observing gender segregation—are understood to have a similarly ancient pedigree. In this book, however, Aaron Rock-Singer draws from a range of media forms as well as traditional religious texts to demonstrate that Salafism is a creation of the twentieth century and that its signature practices emerged primarily out of Salafis’ competition with other social movements amid the intellectual and social upheavals of modernity. In the Shade of the Sunna thus takes readers beyond the surface claims of Salafism’s own proponents—and the academics who often repeat them—into the larger sociocultural and intellectual forces that have shaped Islam’s fastest growing revivalist movement.
Price: $34.95
Pages: 278
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
31 May 2022
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780520382572
Format: Paperback
"In the Shade of the Sunna [is] an indispensable reference for those interested in Salafism or Islam and, more broadly, for those intent on exploring the complicated but nevertheless constitutive entanglements between religious tradition and modernity."
"Rock-Singer has done the field a great service by publishing this book.... Theoretically robust, empirically rich...[this is an] excellent book that advances our knowledge of Salafism both in Egypt and generally."
"This text is an erudite, novel examination of the social history of Salafism and its project to fashion a distinct visual Salafi identity through a reconstruction of early Islamic history. It will be of interest to specialists and lay people interested in Islam and the Middle East and makes a valuable contribution to the field of Salafism studies."
"Aaron Rock-Singer’s In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East is a signal contribution to the study of modern salafism qua movement as embedded in larger societies, with special reference to twentieth-century Egypt and to a lesser extent Saudi Arabia"
"The book’s importance…lies in a dual shifting from the prevailing scholarship on Salafism: from ideology, law, and political participation to social practices; and from jihadist radicalism to social reform."
"Rock-Singer has done the field a great service by publishing this book.... Theoretically robust, empirically rich...[this is an] excellent book that advances our knowledge of Salafism both in Egypt and generally."
"In this innovative new analysis of Salafism, Aaron Rock-Singer takes as his point of departure a series of publicly visible markers that are understood by Salafis and non- Salafis alike to differentiate the former from the latter. . . .This volume helpfully turns the study of Islamic reform toward the social – the everyday Salafi practices which are not profane even if they are mundane, but rather reflect a conception of Islam in which the concerns of religion move into new social domains."
"This text is an erudite, novel examination of the social history of Salafism and its project to fashion a distinct visual Salafi identity through a reconstruction of early Islamic history. It will be of interest to specialists and lay people interested in Islam and the Middle East and makes a valuable contribution to the field of Salafism studies."
"Aaron Rock-Singer’s In the Shade of the Sunna: Salafi Piety in the Twentieth-Century Middle East is a signal contribution to the study of modern salafism qua movement as embedded in larger societies, with special reference to twentieth-century Egypt and to a lesser extent Saudi Arabia"
"The book’s importance…lies in a dual shifting from the prevailing scholarship on Salafism: from ideology, law, and political participation to social practices; and from jihadist radicalism to social reform."
Aaron Rock-Singer is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin—Madison and author of Practicing Islam in Egypt: Print Media and Islamic Revival.
Contents
Acknowledgments
The Ethics of an Orphan Image
A Note on Transliteration and Spelling
Introduction
1. The Roots of Salafism: Strands of an Unorthodox Past, 1926–1970
2. Conquering Custom in the Name of Tawhid: The Salafi Expansion of Worship
3. Praying in Shoes: How to Sideline a Practice of the Prophet
4. The Salafi Mystique: From Fitna to Gender Segregation
5. Leading With a Fist: The Genesis and Consolidation of a Salafi Beard
6. Between Pants and the Jallabiyya: The Adoption of Isbal and the Battle for Authenticity
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
The Ethics of an Orphan Image
A Note on Transliteration and Spelling
Introduction
1. The Roots of Salafism: Strands of an Unorthodox Past, 1926–1970
2. Conquering Custom in the Name of Tawhid: The Salafi Expansion of Worship
3. Praying in Shoes: How to Sideline a Practice of the Prophet
4. The Salafi Mystique: From Fitna to Gender Segregation
5. Leading With a Fist: The Genesis and Consolidation of a Salafi Beard
6. Between Pants and the Jallabiyya: The Adoption of Isbal and the Battle for Authenticity
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index