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The modern period brought about a confrontation between modernity, and all of its attendant movements and ideas, and the scholars of Islam, whose background and basis is in the writings of men who lived in a civilization which was very sure of itself and unchallenged. As such, even the most reactionary Islamic scholars can be read as being in conversation with modernity, even if this conversation entails a wholesale rejection of the concept.  

 

{{PortalArticle|image=Hamood bin Uqla Ash-Shu'aibi.jpg|title=Hamood bin Uqla Ash-Shu'aibi|summary=Hamood bin Uqla Ash-Shu'aibi was a hardcore salafi scholar who was quoted my Usama bin Laden and was influential in the jihad movement in the 21st century.|description=}}

{{PortalArticle|image=Muhammad_ibn_Abd_al-Wahhab.jpg|title=Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab|summary=Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab was an influential Islamic scholar in the Arabian peninsula during the early modern period. His thought was very influential on the salafi and takfiri schools of jihadi Islam was well as the Hanbali Islam of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.|description=}}

{{PortalArticle|image=Shaykh_Gibril.jpg|title=Gibril Haddad|summary=Gibril Haddad is an influential Beirut-born scholar of hadith as well as translator. He is a self-described opponent of "salafi fundamentalism."|description= }}