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Parent topics
- Islam [r]: Religion founded by Muhammad whose sacred book is the Qur'an (Koran). [e]
- Sunni [r]: The main branch of Islam, which treats authority as following in the line of the first four "righteously guided" caliphs, as opposed to the Shi'ite dynastic line from the son-in-law of the Prophet [e]
- Caliph [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
- Al-Qaeda [r]: International islamist terrorist network. Responsible for the 9-11 attack and other terrorist attacks. [e]
- Wahhabism [r]: A socially conservative branch of Sunni Islam, strongest in the House of Saud, which rules Saudi Arabia [e]
- Salafism [r]: A strict branch of Sunni Islam, dedicated to the restoration of the Caliphate, often by means of armed jihad [e]
- Takfir wal-Hijra [r]: An extreme Salafist organization of Egyptian origin, whose executed leader wanted to withdraw from modern society, build strength, and then excommunicate and kill those they considered apostates, such as Osama bin Laden [e]
- Taliban [r]: Salafist Islamic militia, governing Afghanistan 1996–2001; still fighting in Pakistan and Afghanistan. [e]
- Sayyid Qutb [r]: Born in 1906, radicalized in 1951, and executed in 1966, an influential theorist of Salafist revolutionary Islam; considered one of the two spiritual fathers of al-Qaeda and the mentor of Ayman al-Zawahiri [e]
- Abd al-Qadir bin ‘Abd al-‘Aziz [r]: A Salafist scholar who was the first leader of Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and an opponent, within jihadist circles, of Ayman al-Zawahiri [e]
- Abu Basir al-Tartusi [r]: A Syrian-born Salafist theologian, living in London, highly visible on the Internet and a prominent pro-jihad theoretician [e]
- Al-wala’ wa’l-bara’ [r]: A Muslim, primarily Salafist belief that the faithful should show exclusive allegiance to Allah and Islam, and repudiation of unbelief and unbelievers, not associating with non-Muslims [e]
- Osama bin Laden [r]: Radical jihadist who, with Ayman al-Zawahiri, founded a group known as al-Qaeda, which is credited with a series of terrorist attacks. [e]
- Jemaah Islamiya [r]: A jihadist group in Southeast Asia, affiliated with al-Qaeda in the common goal of establishing a caliphate [e]
- Sharia [r]: The Muslim system of law and rule of conduct inspired by the Qur'an, the Sunna, traditional law systems, and the Hadiths. [e]