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Wahhabi takfir of the Ottoman Empire

  • January 12, 2020

    Khawarij Ideology, ISIS Savagery: the Wahhabi Inspiration?

    It has now been four years since I started this three part instalment. It’s been over three years since I wrote the rough outlines for this third and final part. One thing or another, however, stopped me from completing it. But given Saudi Arabia’s current socio-religious changes or transition under the Crown Prince Muhammad b. Continue reading

    contemporary concerns, correctives & clarifications, orthodoxy & ahl al-sunnah, politics & society, salafism reconsidered, theology
    Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi’s Wahhabi pedigree, al-Maqdisi’s takfir if Saudi Arabia, brief history of takfir and the three Saudi states, did Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab make tafkir of the all non-Wahhabis?, how the Management of Savagery code influenced ISIS and al-Qaeda, Humud b. ‘Uqala’s role in spreading takfiri ideas, is Saudi Wahhabism behind ISIS?, Is Wahhabism responsible for today’s jihadi violence?, pillars of the jihadi worldview, Salafi stance of judging by man-made laws, Salafi view on wala and bara’ah, Sayyid Qutb’s influence on ISIS, Takfir fatwas of early Wahhabi scholars, understanding today’s jihadi violence, Wahhabi influence on ISIS, Wahhabi takfir of the Ottoman Empire, Wahhabis on wala and bara’ah

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My name is Surkheel Sharif (aka Abu Aaliyah). Born and raised in London, England, I began my more formal, but gradual studies of the Islamic sciences around the late 1980s (just a few years after having quit my degree in Astrophysics). I also gained an MA in Islamic Studies from Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2009.

I’ve translated a few Islamic works from Arabic into English; one of them, a short text on Muslim spirituality, called The Exquisite Pearl (2000). I have also authored a few books, including: More Fish Please & the Earth’s Complaint (2011); Fussing Over the 15th of Sha’ban & the Golden Rule of Differing (2011); A Muslim’s Guide to Modernity (2025); and Salafism Reconsidered (forthcoming)

I am the founder and current Director of the Jawziyyah Institute (est. 1999): a non-profit organisation dedicated to cultivating an Islam true to its time-honoured tradition, relevant to its current context, and of benefit to wider society. 

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