Coded Language Among Muslim Activists:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Coded Language Among Muslim Activists: "
Alexander Thurston

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1085727
Doc. No	:	LA129356
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700607-00572p03‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Alexander Thurston
Title & Author	:	Coded Language Among Muslim Activists: [Article] : Salafīs and the Prophet’s Sermon of Necessity\ Alexander Thurston
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Die Welt des Islams
Date	:	2017
Volume/ Issue Number	:	57/2
Page No	:	192–222
Abstract	:	This article examines how use of the Prophet Muḥammad’s Khuṭbat al-ḥāja (Sermon of Necessity) became a distinguishing marker of Salafism. To understand the Sermon’s role, the article draws on the notion of “coded language,” messages that communities use to communicate with insiders while excluding outsiders. The article analyzes the content of the Sermon and describes its spread among Salafīs. The Sermon was championed by Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī (1914-99), who played a pivotal role in shaping Salafī practice. Relating the Sermon’s spread to methodological debates about studying Salafism, the article suggests that the Sermon furnishes one empirical criterion that can be used to date Salafism’s crystallization to the mid-twentieth century. The article closes by examining how jihādīs selectively use the Sermon to “Salafize” their speech, and by discussing how instances of opposition to the Sermon’s use were connected to debates over the validity of Salafism and the status of al-Albānī.  This article examines how use of the Prophet Muḥammad’s Khuṭbat al-ḥāja (Sermon of Necessity) became a distinguishing marker of Salafism. To understand the Sermon’s role, the article draws on the notion of “coded language,” messages that communities use to communicate with insiders while excluding outsiders. The article analyzes the content of the Sermon and describes its spread among Salafīs. The Sermon was championed by Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī (1914-99), who played a pivotal role in shaping Salafī practice. Relating the Sermon’s spread to methodological debates about studying Salafism, the article suggests that the Sermon furnishes one empirical criterion that can be used to date Salafism’s crystallization to the mid-twentieth century. The article closes by examining how jihādīs selectively use the Sermon to “Salafize” their speech, and by discussing how instances of opposition to the Sermon’s use were connected to debates over the validity of Salafism and the status of al-Albānī.
Descriptor	:	jihadism
Descriptor	:	jihadism
Descriptor	:	Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī
Descriptor	:	Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī
Descriptor	:	Salafism
Descriptor	:	Salafism
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700607-00572p03‬