Shiraz Maher charts the intellectual underpinnings of. Military jihad, a holy war, will overturn existing governments and create a worldwide a global Islamic utopia. Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea by Shiraz Maher (review). While much has been said about the way jihadists behave, their ideology remains poorly understood. Jihad is understood as the means by which the millenarian vision of Salafi-jihad will be realized. Maher traces the origins of this particular strain of Islam to the medieval scholar Ibn Taymiyyah and the 18th century scholar Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab.

The Guardian newspaper describes Salafi-Jihadism as one of 'the best books to understand modern terrorism,' describing it as providing 'insight into the theological frameworks adopted by many proponents of terror today without falling into arcane arguments about Islamic law.' Synopsis Īccording to Maher, the key to understanding Salafi-jihadism is to understand how this ideology interprets the five ideological pillars of the faith. According to Maher, Salafi jihadism is based on five doctrines of faith: jihad in the sense of holy war, tawhid, (the oneness of God), hakimiyya (meaning true Islamic government), al-wala wal-bara (loyalty to divine truth and rejection of untruth and polytheism), and takfir (the naming of disbelievers). Salafi-Jihadism focuses on the religious basis of jihadism.

Salafi-Jihadism: The History of an Idea is a 2016 book by British policy analyst Shiraz Maher.

Salafi-Jihadism by Shiraz Maher