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**WomanBreast40356** · 02-29-2012, 09:37 AM

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.

Completely agreed.

Some overview of all this is offered in several orientalists' publications (which means that much has to be taken with a pinch of salt, indeed); unfortunately, many Muslims are quite weak in history and especially Muslim history, and that's why they are often confused and deviated by deviants taking proofs from de-contextualized historical facts.

02-29-2012, 09:37 AM	#14
WomanBreast40356 Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 426 Senior Member	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. Completely agreed. Some overview of all this is offered in several orientalists' publications (which means that much has to be taken with a pinch of salt, indeed); unfortunately, many Muslims are quite weak in history and especially Muslim history, and that's why they are often confused and deviated by deviants taking proofs from de-contextualized historical facts.
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