Review of Luz GÓMEZ GARCÍA (2021): Salafismo. La mundanidad de la pureza, La Catarata, Madrid.

Abstract

Salafism has become one of the most popular doctrines of Sunni Islam, and one of the most mediatized in the West. But, in general, we know little about its nature and genealogy. The new work by Luz Gómez García, Full Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid, introduces us in the origin and development of the Salafist movement and its search for the purity of Islam, which would represent the first believers, the so-called Salaf. With this book, Luz Gómez carries out an exhaustive archaeology of the movement and explains the success of Salafism in its exaltation of worldliness in purity, but also its omnipresence in the politics of contemporary Islam.