Sociology of Religious Extremism in The Malay World: An Early Analysis

The Malay World is known as an area inhabited by gentle and peace-loving people. This happens because this has a history of interacting with foreign nations major world religions. However, image peace changed when extremist movements appeared in the name salafi jihad. main objective study to analyze Islam-based sociology extremism based on literature sources. It consists primary secondary sources produced extremists religious authorities. data from these two are analyzed critically use historical perspective identify details extremism's teachings. found that detected stems understanding concepts takfir jihad deviate teachings Islam. These have been brought life neo-Khawarij (Salafi Jihad) movement uses ICT, especially modern social media. causes be welcomed some community members.