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Global Salafism: Islam's New Religious Movement

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General Reference

Divinity Atlas. "Global Salafism: Islam's New Religious Movement." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/global-salafism-islams-new-religious-movement.

APA Style

Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Global Salafism: Islam's New Religious Movement. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/global-salafism-islams-new-religious-movement

BibTeX

@misc{divinityatlas-global-salafism-islam-s-new-religious-mo,
  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Global Salafism: Islam's New Religious Movement},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/global-salafism-islams-new-religious-movement},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

This is a standard scholarly edited volume, with named specialist contributors surveying Salafism as a global Islamic movement, each addressing its theology, politics or regional variation from their own documented area of research rather than one editor summarizing the whole movement secondhand. That contributor-by-contributor specialist method is the volume's real evidentiary basis. This record states its own limit plainly: coverage of any one aspect or region of Salafism depends entirely on which chapter addresses it, so a topic no chapter treats in depth is not covered here at all. Use it for established scholarly facts about a covered aspect of Salafism that a specific chapter directly addresses.

Facts

Assessment

Reliability Tier

A standard scholarly edited volume surveying Salafism as a global Islamic movement with chapters by specialist contributors; coverage of a given topic depends on which contributor wrote that chapter.

Notes

Standard scholarly edited volume surveying Salafism as a global Islamic movement, with chapters by specialist contributors covering its theology, politics and regional variation. Use for established scholarly facts about a covered aspect of Salafism; coverage is uneven by topic since it depends on which contributor wrote a given chapter.

Citation

Author

Roel Meijer (ed.)

Publisher

Hurst

Publication Year

2009

Source Type

Scholarly work

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

Global

This source names Global directly: "contributors surveying Salafism as a global Islamic movement, each addressing its theology, politics or regional variation from their own documented area of research rather than one editor..."

Source Global Salafism: Islam's New Religious MovementRoel Meijer (ed.)

Salafism

This source names Salafism directly: "specialist contributors surveying Salafism as a global Islamic movement, each addressing its theology, politics or regional variation from their own documented area of research rather than one..."

Source Global Salafism: Islam's New Religious MovementRoel Meijer (ed.)

Claims Backed By This Source (145 claims)

This source backs 145 claims across the atlas. As facts: 71 well-attested, 8 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 29 holds, 4 connected, 2 critiqued Here, 7 rejected Here, 1 held Differently. Plus 23 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

Articles, 38 claims: 28 well-attested, 1 holds, 4 connected, 5 general references.
Denominations, 38 claims: 13 well-attested, 3 scholarly debate, 12 holds, 7 rejected Here, 1 held Differently, 2 general references.
Organizations, 28 claims: 15 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 9 holds, 3 general references.
Doctrines, 17 claims: 4 well-attested, 4 holds, 2 critiqued Here, 7 general references.
Beliefs & Restrictions, 10 claims: 4 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 4 general references.
Sources, 9 claims: 7 well-attested, 2 holds.
Figures, 3 claims: 1 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 general references.
Sacred Objects & Ritual Items, 2 claims: 1 scholarly debate, 1 general references.