The Concept of Jihad in the Neo-Salafist Doctrine with an Emphasis on Economic Jihad: A Review

This study provides a review on the notion of Jihad in Neo-Salafist philosophy with an emphasis on economic Jihad. In specific, this research seeks to answer the question as to how the economic structure of the institutions derived from the Neo-Salafist doctrine has been shaped. This is an applied research conducted following a descriptive, analytical design and with a qualitative content. The findings suggest that the role of the component Jihad as the most important practical principle was very prominent in the appearance of the Neo-Salafist movement, giving rise to a different kind of economic Jihad. In sum, the evolvement in the notion of Jihad has provided the ground for increasing violence both in Muslim and non-Muslim communities and has led to outbreak of major crises such as increased regional conflicts and probability of a war on International scale, political instability, growing power of the Takfiri terrorist groups, and secessionism in the region. Indeed, the Takfiri groups, as a product of the Neo-Salafist current, by developing the concept of Jihad, have derived a kind of economic Jihad based on which their economic structure is defined by exploitating such resources as oil export, issue of banknotes and passport, and extortion from European companies. This study gives impor

Keywords:

Neo-Salafist , Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) , Takfir , Jihad , economic jihad , development of Jihad concept