1 The Creed, Ideology, and Manhaj (Methodology) of Salafism: A Historical and Contemporaneous Framework 21 -- 2 The Path to Salafism 59 -- 3 The Quietest Salafi Ideology of Sheilch Sad al-Din Muhammad al-Kibbi 93 -- 4 The Activist (Haraki) Salafi Ideology of Sheikh Zakariya 'Abd al-Razaq al-Masri 109 -- 5 The Emergence and Ideology of the Salafi-jihadi Usbat al-Ansar 133 -- 6 Salafism, Confessional Politics, and Shi'a Ascendancy; Al-Infitab (Opening Up) or the Rise to Rebellion? 153 -- 7 The Sunni Leadership and Salafism: Political Expediency and Self-Denial 191 -- 8 Salafism, the Divided House, and the Syrian Rebellion: jihad in the Path of Allah 213.