Tag: Salafi
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The Distinct Trajectory of Salafism in Black America: Why it was Different from Other Muslim Societies, by Imam Luqman Ahmad
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ، وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَبَعْد “People act according to what they know. And people know according to what they have lived.” — Ibn al‑Qayyim The story of Salafism in Black America cannot be understood by simply tracing the movement’s doctrinal origins or its global spread. It must be…
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The Last Salafi Holdouts: How a Fading Movement Desperately Tries to Keep Its Grip on Black American Salafis, by Imam Luqman Ahmad
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ، وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَبَعْد For more than three decades, Saudi religious institutions played a central role in shaping the Salafi movement in the United States. Their books, tapes, translations, and fatwas flowed into Black American communities at a time when many new Muslims were searching…
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When “Wahhabi” Became “Salafi”: How an Imported Ideology Reshaped Black American Muslim Life, by Imam Luqman Ahmad
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ، وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَبَعْد Before the 1980s, the word “Wahhabi” circulated in Muslim communities as a pejorative label—an accusation of harshness, rigidity, and an almost mechanical approach to faith. It started as a name people chose for themselves, and wore proudly, but outside the Kingdom…
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THE GLOBAL SALAFI INDUSTRY BUILT ON THE BACK OF BLACK AMERICAN MUSLIM CONVERTS, by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ، وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَبَعْد Walk into almost any Black Muslim bookstore in America — from Philadelphia to Atlanta, from Detroit to Brooklyn — and you’ll see the same pattern: shelves lined with glossy paperbacks stamped with the same familiar branding. “Salafi this.” “Salafi that.” “The…
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The Three Faces of Modern Salafism and Their Impact on Black American Muslim Life, Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ، وَالصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ عَلَى رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ، وَبَعْد Modern Salafism did not enter Black American Muslim life as a single, unified ideology. It arrived as a current, as a wave if you will. A global religious stream shaped by oil wealth, geopolitics, missionary institutions, and the intellectual anxieties of the modern Muslim…
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SALAFI VS NON-SALAFI MARRIAGES, Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
SALAFI VS NON-SALAFI MARRIAGES Stop knocking the Salafi Muslims over how they get married quickly and with low dowrys. There is no evidence that Salafi Muslim marriages have more problems or last any less than non-Salafi marriages. There is no evidence that Salafis divorce more, or that their children are more likely to leave Islam.…
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The Salaf and Traditional Knowledge, Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
The period of the Salaf (the first three generations) of Muslims, is not a madhhab of fiqh or a singular madhhab of aqeeda. It is a period of time with many variances and scholarly nuances within the scope of what people refer to today as “traditional knowledge”. There is no one ‘Salaf” school of thought…
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Who and what are the Salaf, and who are the modern-day Salafis? by Imam Abu Laith Luqman Ahmad
Traditional scholars of Islam did not use the term “Salafi” as a label; nor did they go around saying, “I am a Salafi”, or claim to follow or propagate da’wah Salafiyyah
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Lunacy in the Levant: Deconstructing the ISIS Crisis, by Imam Luqman Ahmad
Genocide, murder, rape, mass executions, beheadings, the persecution of Christians, the persecution of Muslims, the persecution of Yazidis, a religion that most of us have heretofore never heard about, and a level of Muslim extremism that sends chills down your spine. This is the burgeoning reality of the ISIS phenomena which many people call a…
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New Book Release! The Devil’s Deception of the Modern-Day Salafiyyah Sect, by Imam Luqman Ahmad
A detailed analysis of the Modern Day Salafi Sect, their beliefs, practices and influences upon the religious framework of Muslim America. In particular, the indigenous American Muslim population.
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