In the Shade of the Sunna – Salafi Piety in the Twentieth–Century Middle East

"A unique and insightful study of what makes a Salafi a Salafi. Rock-Singer turns many conventional assumptions on their head by showing that Salafi practices are not merely the result of a careful return to the Qur'an and the Sunna. A landmark book."--Henri Lauzière, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University

"Through a careful reading of twentieth-century Egyptian Salafi thought and practice, Aaron Rock-Singer's work offers a potent corrective, indeed an outright challenge, to theories of Islam's discursive continuity. It warrants broad readership and will stimulate productive debate."--Emilio Spadola, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Middle Eastern & Islamic Civilization Studies, Colgate University