Salafiyan Takfiri or al-Djihaddiyyun: Origin and Ideas

Salafiyan Takfiri are among the extremist groups of Muslims who are known by this title, given to them by their opponents, due to their particular ideas. The group emerged in Egypt but then later appeared in other Muslim countries. After the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of new independent countries in the region in1924, economic, social, and political developments in later decades gradually led to the idea of forming Islamic government as an alternative to the Caliphate in Egypt. The adherents of this vision were some Muslim groups who felt that their Islamic identity in such conditions was subject to the danger of destruction. They who, generally speaking, stem from the Muslim of Brotherhood and were under their influence in attitudes, occupied the socio-political atmosphere of Egypt in the seventies and eighties. Among them, the most important groups of those are TanÛÐm al-Faniyya alÝAskariyya, DjamAÝa al-MuslimÐn or DjamAÝa al-TakfÐr wa al- Hijra, DjamAÝa al-Jihad. Introducing the ideas as well as the leaders of these groups, this paper tries to examine why they became wellknown as Salafiyan Takfiri or al-Djihaddiyyun.