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Vigilante gangs of ultra-conservative Salafi men have been harassing shop owners and female customers in rural towns around Egypt for “indecent behavior,” according to reports in the Egyptian ...

Al-Monitor is an award-winning media outlet covering the Middle East, valued for its independence, diversity and analysis. It is read widely by US, international and Middle East decision makers at the ...

Wahhabi Islam is more correctly called Salafism. Safa al Ahmad finds that, post the Arab uprisings, the Salafis are split between jihadists, democrats and apolitical pietists. Show more Wahhabism ...

(2016) The Making of Salafism: Islamic Reform in the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press. Ma, B. (2011) Li cheng: Minguo liu ai hui zu xue sheng pai qian shi yan jiu [The process of ...

Millions of Egyptians led by youth dissenting movements rose up against the corrupt regime of former president Hosni Mubarak on 25 January this year, with 18 days of street protests in Cairo, ...