West African ʻulamāʼ and Salafism in Mecca and Medina
Subtitle: jawāb al-Ifrīqī-the response of the African
By: by Chanfi Ahmed
Series: Islam in africa -- v. 17
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9789004270312; 9789004291942
Subjects: Salafīyah; Ulema
Description: Chanfi Ahmed shows how West African ʻulamāʼ, who fled the European colonization of their region to settle in Mecca and Medina, helped the regime of King Ibn Saʻūd at its beginnings in the field of teaching and spreading the Salafī-Wahhabī's Islam both inside and outside Saudi Arabia. This is against the widespread idea of considering the spread of the Salafī-Wahhābī doctrine as being the work of ʻulamā from Najd (Central Arabia) only. We learn here that the diffusion of this doctrine after 1926 was much more the work of ʻulamā from other parts of the Muslim World who had already acquired this doctrine and spread it in their countries by teaching and publishing books related to it. In addition Chanfi Ahmed demonstrates that concerning Islamic reform and mission (daʻwa), Africans are not just consumers, but also thinkers and designers--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-204) and index.