The Salafi movement, 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 tr
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
Salafi jihadism, also known as Salafi-jihadism, jihadist Salafism and revolutionary Salafism, is a religiopolitical Sunni Islamist ideology that seeks to establish a global caliphate through armed str
Salafi movement
…the second largest group being the political Salafis (or Salafi islamists), who maintain regular involvement in politics; and the third group being the jihadi-Salafis, who form a minority and advocate armed struggle to restore early Islamic practice. In legal matters, Salafis advocate ijtihad (independent reasoning…
The revolutionary ideals advocated by Islamist scholar Sayyid Qutb through his prison-writings constitute the ideological basis of the Salafi-Jihadi movement
Osama bin Laden, founder of the Salafi jihadist organization al-Qaeda
Islamic cleric Abu Qatada al-Falastini
Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, Emir of al-Qaeda in Iraq and prominent Islamist leader who was killed during the anti-American insurgency in Iraq, is widely regarded as an influential figure by Salafi Jihadists