The Salafi methodology or Salafism emerged in the late 19th century and has been influential in the Islamic world to this day. The name "Salafiyyah" is a self-designation that claims a return to the t
Syro-Egyptian Sunni thinker Sayyid Rashid Rida (d. 1935), leader of the Arab Salafiyya movement
Teachings of the influential Yemeni traditionalist theologian Muhammad ibn Ali al-Shawkani (d. 1834) have profoundly influenced generations of Salafi scholarship.
Tahir al-Jazai'ri (1920), one of the early leaders of the Salafi movement
Jamal al-Din al-Qasimi (d. 1914), a major scholar of the Syrian Salafiyya movement
Sayyid Muḥammad Ṣiddīq Ḥasan Khān al-Qannawjī was an Islamic scholar and leader of British India's Muslim community in the 19th century, often considered to be the most important Muslim scholar of the
Khan's gravestone
View of Lejbailat and State Mosque