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I don't think so. He continuously refers to 1400 years, in other words he is referring to the actual birth of Islam itself and not the relatively modern revivalists, Salafis.
To be revivalists they have to be reviving something. What the Salafis are reviving are the violent teachings of the Prophet Muhammad, PBUH. Arabia was made an Islamic country when the Prophet Muhammad, PBUH, conquerd it.

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