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**Lebybynctisee** · 02-29-2012, 08:12 AM

In fact, the movement of "Salafiyyah" originally (back in the 19th century) was born as a reformist movement; see the works of Rashir Rida, Muhammad Abduh, etc.
Al-Albani grow his interest in hadith research by reading "al-Manar" magazine edited by Muhammad Abduh, who was one of the founders of Salafiyyah, a neo-Mu'tazili freemason installed by the British as "Grand-Mufti" of al-Azhar, from where he will "legitimize" riba and so on.

That's from where modern-day Salafis take their hate for the four Madhahib and Tasawwuf, both of whom were criticized by the early proponents of the original reformist "Salafiyyah" as the "causes of immobility and stagnation" of the Ummah as compared to the "mighty west", which they looked up as a model. For them, restarting a "new Ijtihad" directly from the sources was the only way to forward the "Western-style progress" in the Islamic Ummah.

That's all history.

I wonder if there's a book on the history of the various movements that somehow came together to form modern day Salafiyyah (i.e. Wahabism, Egyptian neo-Mu`tazilism, Ahle Hadith, etc.) and how they eventually coalesced into what we know and see today.

I think it's interesting, and unfortunately something that doesn't get a lot of attention.

While tackling their doctrinal positions and refuting them is one tactic, and it works, it may benefit to present a fair history of the movement, to show how it came to separate itself from the rest of Ahlus Sunnah.

02-29-2012, 08:12 AM	#13
Lebybynctisee Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 587 Senior Member	In fact, the movement of "Salafiyyah" originally (back in the 19th century) was born as a reformist movement; see the works of Rashir Rida, Muhammad Abduh, etc. Al-Albani grow his interest in hadith research by reading "al-Manar" magazine edited by Muhammad Abduh, who was one of the founders of Salafiyyah, a neo-Mu'tazili freemason installed by the British as "Grand-Mufti" of al-Azhar, from where he will "legitimize" riba and so on. That's from where modern-day Salafis take their hate for the four Madhahib and Tasawwuf, both of whom were criticized by the early proponents of the original reformist "Salafiyyah" as the "causes of immobility and stagnation" of the Ummah as compared to the "mighty west", which they looked up as a model. For them, restarting a "new Ijtihad" directly from the sources was the only way to forward the "Western-style progress" in the Islamic Ummah. That's all history. I wonder if there's a book on the history of the various movements that somehow came together to form modern day Salafiyyah (i.e. Wahabism, Egyptian neo-Mu`tazilism, Ahle Hadith, etc.) and how they eventually coalesced into what we know and see today. I think it's interesting, and unfortunately something that doesn't get a lot of attention. While tackling their doctrinal positions and refuting them is one tactic, and it works, it may benefit to present a fair history of the movement, to show how it came to separate itself from the rest of Ahlus Sunnah.
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