The perception of Abû Hanifah of salafism

Salafists claim to be salafist followers, as well as put forward that Abu Hanifah's opinions coincide with Salafist ideas. Considering our thesis, we drew attention to the difference between the concepts of Salafism and Salafist and tried to explain how salafism was born in the historical process and what stages it went through. We aimed to determine whether Abû Hanifah was a Salafist as claimed also whether his ideas are in parallel with the Salafist's opinion, as the salafists claimed it to be so. In our study, we attempted to show the difference between the Salafist's opinions and the ideas of Abû Hanifah and his students as well by comparing them with each other and to show in what extent the claims reflect the truth. Considering our research, while the evaluations made by Mohammad el Humayyis regarding the ideas of Abû Hanifah are mentioned in private, we targeted to reveal the perception of Abû Hanifah from the point of view of Salafism movement. Key words: Salafist, Salafism, Hanafism, Abû Hanifah, Mohammad el Humayyis.