Roel Meijer
Author of Global Salafism: Islam's New Religious Movement
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- Roel Meijer is Senior Research Fellow at the Clingendael Institute. He also teaches Middle Eastern history at Radboud University in Nijmegen, and is head of the Arabic section of the Middle East desk at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam (IISH). Currently he is working on a research project on Salafism funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
His main interest is Islamist movements. As a post doctoral Fellow at the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) in Leiden from 2004 to 2008, he studied Islamist movements in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. He is also an experienced editor, with 4 anthologies to his name, the most recent of which, Global Islam: Islam’s New Religious Movement, is to be published in 2013.
He studied History at the University of Amsterdam and in 1995 was awarded his PhD at the same university for his research on Intellectuals and Nasser, The Quest for Modernity: Secular Liberal and Left-wing Political Thought in Egypt, 1945-1958.
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Global Salafism: Islam's New Religious Movement by Roel (ed.) Meijer
'Salafism' and 'jihadi-Salafism' have become significant doctrinal trends in contemporary Islamic thought, yet the West has largely failed to offer a sophisticated and discerning definition of these movements. The contributors to Global Salafism carefully outline not only the differences in the Salafi schools but the broader currents of Islamic thought that constitute this trend as well. They examine both the regional manifestations of the phenomenon and its shared, essential doctrines. Their analyses highlight Salafism's inherent ambivalence and complexitites – the 'out-antiquing the antique' that has brought Islamic thought into the modern age while maintaining its relationship to an older, purer authenticity. Emphasising the subtle tensions between local and glocal aspirations within the 'Salafi method', Global Salafism investigates the movement like no other study currently available.… (more)
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