%0 Journal Article %T Salafi activism and the promotion of a modern Muslim identity: Evolving mediums of Da¡¯wa amongst Yogyakartan university students %A Chris Chaplin %J South East Asia Research %@ 2043-6874 %D 2018 %R 10.1177/0967828X17752414 %X Indonesia has witnessed the emergence of a market of Islamic goods, services and media platforms that have catalysed a qualitative shift in the ways individuals come to express their religious convictions. Salafi Islam is no exception to this transformation, and this article provides a case study of contemporary Salafi propagation amongst Yogyakarta¡¯s students and graduates. Through description and analysis of campus based religious lectures, websites, magazines and fashion outlets linked to the al-Atsary Islamic Education Foundation, this article explores the intricacies of campus affiliated da¡¯wa. Linked to a ¡®literalist¡¯ interpretation of Islam reliant on scholars in Saudi Arabia, Salafism is frequently denounced as foreign to Indonesian norms. Yet, while activists do indeed promote a rigid adherence to Islamic tenets, they also align Islamic values to concerns with a modern Muslim identity. By framing Salafism as sensitive to ideas of professional employment, while juxtaposing it against images of a less well-educated rural Islam, they have thus have created a unique strand of urban Salafi propagation %K Indonesia %K Islamic activism %K Islamic modernity %K religious consumption %K Salafism %K Yogyakarta %U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0967828X17752414