Abstract
SALAFISM TODAY, SALAFI IDEOLOGY AND VIOLENCE
Lack of assessment of problems in its internal integrity and trying to solve social problems just from verses of Quran and hadith (tradition of Prophet) have been greatest depression of Islam in history and its heritage to time of being. According to Salafis, ideal religious life lived in era of bliss and the truth was determined in the past. By the hands of the first generation that God and the Prophet's blessed, religion found his final shape, Salaf solved all problem in their times, supplied all human needs. Radicalisation/fundamentalism began to be referred to with violence regionally and globally in theological, political and sociological context. Islam, through radical and violence that has become a tool of the Salafi target. In this study, religion position in act of violence, place of religious idealism of religious radicalism, Islamic legitimacy issue of the actions and ideas, religious motivation and legitimation problems are dealt with.
Keywords
Salaf, Salafism, Fundamentalism, Violence, Terrorism.
