Salafi movement
Salafism

However, this practice is objected to by scholars following the Salafi movement, based upon a number of declared reasons.

Today, Islamic philosophical thought has also been criticized by scholars of the modern Salafi movement.

It is the expression of the Salafi movement which advocates a return to the texts and condemns any attempt at innovation.

The Salafi movement in Yemen is a redoubtable force against blasphemy.

It is the heart of the Najd region and the centre of the Salafi movement.

The Hizb ut-Tahrir, and the Salafi movement also have a small following.

In a footnote of his report, Anatomy of the Salafi Movement, he wrote:

The Salafi movement considers it unlawful to make Tawassul through those that are no longer alive - including prophets and saints.

His sometime acolyte Muhammad Abduh has been called "the most influential figure" of the early Salafi movement.

Today, criticism of kalam also comes from the Salafi movement which bases its argument on the views held by early Sunni Muslims.

The banned books were authored by or contained the writings of individuals associated with the Wahhabi/Salafi movement in Islam.

The Muslim Brotherhood, which has spawned several militant groups, and the Salafi movement, promoting Islamic fundamentalism, are both active here.

Meanwhile, recent elections have deepened fears that the strong showing of the Salafi movement will push Egyptian politics towards radical Islamism.

Tripoli is also the birthplace of Lebanon's Salafi Movement, a puritanical Sunni movement.

In some northern regions, populated by Sunni Dagestani (Lezghian) people, the Salafi movement gained great following.

A specifically Salafist jihadism has been diagnosed within the modern Salafi movement by Gilles Kepel in the mid-1990s.

Salafi Movement Unveiled, ASFA, 1997.

Nevertheless Qassim says "We don't like to call it the Wahabi movement but rather the reform or Salafi movement of the Sheikh".

The members of the Salafi movement (within Sunni Islam) in the south Indian state of Kerala is known as "Mujahids"

Lastly, any sign that the Salafi movement is growing and spreading must be curbed immediately, since it would promote a radical version of Islam in Tunisia.

In the 18th century the Salafi movement led by Ibn Abd al-Wahhab in today's Saudi Arabia emerged.

His influence on the Salafi movement was large, and most of the prominent judges and religious scholars of Saudi Arabia today are former students of his.

Sunni Islamists followers of the Ikhwan movement, the Wahabi movement, or, in particular, the latter's offshoot the Salafi movement.

An important revival movement during this period include an 18th-century Salafi movement led by Ibn Abd al-Wahhab in today's Saudi Arabia.

The Syrian professor and scholar Dr. Muhammad Sa'id Ramadan al-Buti criticises the Salafi movement in a few of his works.