A Reply to ‘Abdul Haq Al-Ashanti ’s “Critique” of My articles on Neo-Traditional Salafi construction of the Religious Other By Adis Duderija, Ph.D. Couple of months ago I was contacted by email by AbdulHaq ibn Kofi ibn Kwesi al-Ashanti who informed me that he wrote a ‘ critique ’ of my two articles on what I term Neo-traditional Salafi (NTS) construction of the Religious Other (the articles in question can be read here and here ) in which he has made a number of erroneous claims about my work that deserve unequivocal refutation. More importantly, ‘Abdul Haqq’s ‘critique’ warrants attention because it illustrates well the problematic nature of more mainstream classical Sunni manahij ( sg. manhaj) on not only the normative relationship between the Muslim Self and the Religious other but also on other issues pertaining to gender , violence and tolerance. REPLY TO POINT ONE: ‘Abdul Haq starts his ‘critique’ by rightly complaining that the label as well as the concept