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| | Crooked Timber » » Liberal Islamophobia |
 | | Posted by bob mcmanus · July 23rd, 2004 at 4:16 pm |
 | | For starters, the early Wahhabis were pre-modern Hanbalites; to this day Najd, a place reknowned for its xenophobia, is still the home of Hanbalism and not “Wahhabis”. |
 | | Salafisms are a broad modern movement, not to be confused with the pre-modern Hanbalites, and find their origins in a merging of anti-colonial Sufi activism, and the mutation and breakdown of Abduh’s rationalist, utilitarian theology. |
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