The Notion of Salafiyya: Between Saudi Arabia and Turkey

Speaker: Andrew Hammond, University of Oxford Chair: Courtney Freer, LSE Kuwait Programme 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? Recorded on 1 March 2016. Image Credit: Ekremsaringoz, Pixabay.