Seyyed Jamal, Salafism and Westernist Modernism: A Pathological View

The present article has been written with the aim of explaining the initiative of the third way of Seyyed Jamal ol Din Asadabadi in leading the Islamic society to the new age. Given the political and social conditions of his time, he sought to open a third path between the Salafi traditionalists and the Western modernists to the new age. Seyyed Jamal tried to compile an Islamic version of modernity and present it to Muslim communities with the authority of religion. Seyyed Jamal's main initiative in this way was to distinguish between the concept of "religion" and "tradition" on the one hand, and to distinguish between the concept of "culture" and "Western science and technology" on the other. But despite Seyyed Jamal's wishes, the third way eventually strengthened Salafism and fundamentalism in the Islamic world. In this article, using contextual methods, especially the history of concepts, the reasons and causes of such a thing have been studied. The separation of religion from the culture and tradition of Islamic societies at that time, in order to present a universal version of religion, strengthened the concept of Salafism and finally strengthened the dual concept of secularism and Salafism, which led to fundamentalism