Abstract

Salafism was formed as a religious and intellectual current with a critical approach in the Islamic world, but after a while, the flow of Salafism was torn ideologically to several parts. Jihadi Salafists only accept the followers of their principles as real Muslims, and excommunicate those individuals, groups, and religions who do not accept their foundations, and seek to deal with them in the hard and violent way. Various factors such as political, social or identity are effective in the thoughts, beliefs and actions of the jihadi Salafist. In this regard, the main question of the research is how the identity factor influences the ideas of the jihadi Salafism currents in the Islamic world. Indeed, the ideas of the jihadi Salafist and its widespread propaganda in the Islamic world, give rise to very deficient definitions of "our" identity along with a very broad definition of "other" identity and tensions in the Muslim world. They also consider the retardation and humiliation of the Islamic world as a result of the influence of Western culture and of the concepts derived from the West, and therefore it is incumbent on them to confront the West.