Salafist Jihadist Views on Caliphate

Document Type : علمی - ترویجی

Abstract
The Salafist Jihadist movement, is an extremist Salafist ideology which emerged in the past half-century with an extremist understanding of some ideas of the intellectual Sayyid Qutb, and it became the basis for the emergence of groups like al-Qaeda, the Islamic State and so on. With its defective understanding of the real Islam, Salafist Jihadist movement intends to fight western culture's dominance in the Islamic countries by reviving traditional Islamic Caliphate and applying God's sovereignty and worship and bringing about social justice among human. Sticking firmly to Islamic jurisprudence, they denounce all existing governments as ignorant and they accuse the rulers and the people under their rule of heresy. Ergo, to save people from slavery, they encourage their followers to emigrate so that, after centralizing in one place and getting strong, they can fight with their enemy and set up an Islamic caliphate.
 
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