id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ajiss-838	Taylor, Matthew D.	Why I Am a Salafi: By Michael Muhammad Knight (Berkeley, CA: Soft Skull Press, 2015. 378 pages.)	2018.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1525	49	41	And he uses Salafism, with the movement’s desire to return to authentic Islam and its focus on direct readings of the Qur’an 105 and the Hadith, as a means of decentering any assertive definition of Islam. Framed around Knight’s odys- sey within American Islam and the diffuse trends that contributed to the development of his distinct perspective, it is part religious autobiography, part analysis of the nebulous concept of Salafism, and part therapy session.	cache/ajiss-838.pdf	txt/ajiss-838.txt