Analysis of return and reactionism in political Islam and Salafism

Abstract EN

Referring to the fundamentals, once being threatened by alien factors is a usual and normal reaction of any human society.

In Islamic world, such a reaction has happened for any alien invasion to the territories.

Did all Islamic movements refer to their fundamentals in a same way (Question)? This paper has assumed that Islamic movements, especially the contemporary ones, have taken “refer” concept into consideration from two prospects, Reactive and Innovative, which Salafism is the representative of the first and Political Islam represents the second (hypothesis).

Focusing on “referring to the first days”, “opposing with interpretation of Devine text”, “externalism”, “cropping the history”, Salafism has referred to fundamentals reactively, whereas; Political Islam has referred innovatively to the fundamentals by considering factors such as “emphasizing on interpretation of Devin text”, “referring to others”, 'referring to ordinary life”.