International workshop : "Modern Preaching of Islam: Salafis, Islamic Movements, Muslim States" — University of Haifa (Israël), 06-08/01/2015

Welcome to the International workshop on Modern Preaching of Islam: Salafis, Islamic Movements, Muslim States The workshop is hosted by the University of Haifa, 6-8 January 2015. This workshop will focus on one of the major features of Islamic activism in modern times: the phenomenon of Da'wah. Islam is a missionary religion, and from the Prophet's days on Muslims engaged in calling other people to Islam. In the twentieth century da'wah reemerges as the foremost conceptualization of this..