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The early ascetics and hermits, such as Abu Musa al-Ash’ari, Abu Hurayrah, and Uways al-Qarani are identified as Sufis in the Sufi tradition, with their family lineages originating from Yemen. However, they should not be viewed as Sufis because they were not familiar with the Sufi ideas that later generations...

The ability of the contemporary Yemeni political formula has been one of its most remarkable features to deal with the various Islamist ideal types through integration and cooptation rather than persecution. Sufis, Zaydi revivalists, Muslim brothers, violent Jihadi fringes, and Salafists have worked...