Despite the large presence of Salafism in Arabic political and religious discourse today, the term remains in fact highly contested and its history unclear. Yet Salafism, with its semantic confusions, is finding its way from Arabic and the Saudi sphere into Turkey and the Turkish language, which had been as a last bastion against its ideological spread. How did it happen, what are its consequences?
Event Details
Speaker: Andrew Hammond, University of Oxford
Chair: Dr Courtney Freer, LSE Kuwait Programme
Date: Tuesday 1 March 2016
Time: 16.30-18:00
Event Hashtag: #LSEGulf
Location: Room 9.04, Tower 1, Clement's Inn, LSE
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Speaker
Andrew Hammond is a doctoral candidate at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford looking at interactions between Turkish and Arabic-language ulama and intellectuals in the early 20th century, including their role in the development of the notion of Salafiyya. He previously studied Arabic and early Islamic history at SOAS and Turkish at the University of Oxford and has published material on contemporary Islamist movements in Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia and Pan-Arab media.