ISIS: A Byproduct of Salafism? pdf download

ISIS A Byproduct of Salafism? Interviews with Dr. Adil Al-Kalbani, Dr. Haatim Al-Ouuni, Translated by Dr. S. Kose.

ISIS: A Byproduct of Salafism? 

Prerequisites

The text that follows assumes that the reader is familiar with the contemporary Salafi movement and the movement of Shaykh Muhammed bin Abdulwahhab.

For those who are not, it is recommended that you review the following short biographies and terminologies before reading the text. 

Muhammed bin Abdulwahhab (1703 – 22 June 

1792) Ibn Abdulwahhab was a religious leader in central Arabia from Najd who founded the movement now called Wahhabism. 

He rejected many common Muslim practices because he regarded them to be either a religious innovation (bid’ah) or polytheism (shirk). 

Ibn Abdulwahhab’s pact with Muhammad bin Saud helped to establish the Emirate of Diriyah, the first Saudi state. 

Thus began a dynastic alliance and power-sharing arrangement between the two families which continues even today in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

 The ‘A1 ash-Sheikh’, Saudi Arabia’s leading religious family, are the descendants of Ibn 

Abdulwahhab, and have historically led the scholars in the Saudi state, dominating the state’s clerical institutions. 

Muhammad bin Saud (d. 1765). He is also known as Ibn Saud and was the emir of Diriyah 

and is consi dered the founder of the first Saudi State and ISIS: A Byproduct op Salapism? 

the Saud dynasty, which are technically named for his father – Saud ibn Muhammad ibn Muqrin (died 1725). 

Ibn Saud’s family (then known as the A1 Muqrin) traced its descent from the tribes of Banu Audi and Hanifa but despite 

popular misconceptions, Muhammad ibn Saud was neither a nomadic Bedouin nor was he a tribal leader. 

Rather, he was the chief (emir) of an agricultural settlement near modern-day Riyadh, called Diriyah. 

Furthermore, he was a competent and ambitious desert warrior. 

Taqiyyuddeen Ahmad bin Taymiyyah (d. 26 September 1328

He is known as Ibn Taymiyyah for short. He was a controversial medieval Sunni Muslim theologian, jurisconsult, logician, and reformer. 

A member of the Hanbali school of 

jurisprudence founded by Ahmad ibn Hanbal, Ibn Taymiyyah was also a member of the Qadiriyya Sufi order founded by the twelfth-century mystic and saint Abdul-Qadir Gilani. 

A polarizing figure in his own lifetime, Ibn Taymiyyah’s contentious and iconoclastic views on such widely accepted 

Sunni doctrines of the medieval period such as the intercession of pious people and the veneration of their tombs made him very unpopular with the vast majority of the orthodox 

religious scholars of the time, under whose orders he was imprisoned several times during his life