Anouar Majid publishes article on Muslim Salafists

Anouar Majid, Ph.D., director of the Center for Global Humanities and associate provost for Global Initiatives, recently published an article on tabsir.net, an online publication devoted to insight on Islam and the Middle East.

“Muslim Salafists and Moderates:  What’s the Difference?” discusses how the Muslim attachment to the past is exemplified by the Salafists, a loose confederation of Muslim literalists who champion the return to seventh century beliefs and behaviors.

Majid makes the argument that Westerners do the Islamic world no favors by giving a “free pass” to Muslims who promote injustice due to their religious extremism and that Westerners would do more good by encouraging Muslim reformers than by looking the other way from Islamic extremism.

Read the article.
 

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