encountered waves of violence not seen since its war against Islamist groups in the 1990s. A particularly serious bombing in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura on December 24, 2013, killed over 14 people and injured hundreds. This prompted the government to list the Muslim Brotherhood as a "terrorist organi

le mosques are used to disseminate knowledge since they are viewed as schools and are given names such as the Salafist School in Alexandria, Cairo, Mansoura, etc. 'Traditional' or 'scholastic' Salafism has three forms: The Salafist Call started in the 1970s through student activism and became organised