This study examines the context, dynamics and predicaments of the Sufi-Salafi interactions inrnthe context of South Wollo of Ethiopia from 1991 to 2017. Nonetheless, it is confined only onrnsome negative aspects of their relations characterized by competition, intolerance andrnconflict. In doing so, the researcher employed a qualitative research method to gain insightrninto the Sufi-Salafi interactions as it allows the participants to interpret their social reality.rnData generated through this approach are analyzed using discourse analysis, conflictrnmapping, conflict tree-model and onion-model of conflict analysis. Although agents of Islamicrnrevivalism in the history of South Wollo were different (Sufis as agents of the nineteenthrncentury Islam while Salafists for the contemporary), both utilized revivalism as a tool ofrnmaintaining the religious orthodoxy of Islam in subsequent centuries. This would refute thernconventional knowledge which associates revivalism as the monopoly of Salafists. Thernnineteenth century Sufi revivalism was far more radical as it applied Jihad to address the localrnreligious and political grievances while contemporary Salafi revivalism has a peacefulrnpuritanist missionary agenda in South Wollo. Empirical evidences from Sufi-Salafi discoursernrevealed that the Sufi-Salafi competition is primarily triggered by the need to win converts,rncontrol organizational resources and disseminate doctrinal preferences. The absence ofrncooperation which is expressed in the form of obstruction, misperception, deception andrnmanipulation between Sufis and Salafists hinders peace in the Muslim community of SouthrnWollo. The study also finds that passive tolerance which is expressed in the form ofrnmarginalization, xenophobic attitude and emotional attacks using pejorative and derogatoryrnterms impedes peaceful coexistence between Sufis and Salafists in South Wollo. Analysis onrnthe intervention of external actors reveals that the interference of the government andrnAhbash complicates the Sufi-Salafi relations through transforming the dormant conflict intornactive violence in South Wollo. The US government under the pretext of countering terrorismrnindirectly interfered in the Sufi-Salafi conflict through funding Sufi institutions. AlthoughrnIslamic NGOs as external actors were allegedly accused of promoting Salafism in South Wollo,rnit could not be substantiated with evidences. A scrutiny on the causation of the conflictrnidentifies structural, proximate and immediate factors responsible for the Sufi-Salafi conflict.rnThe structural factor is related to actorsâ€™ distinct interpretation of Islam, the proximate factorrnevidenced by the imposition of Ahbash as the ideology of mejlis, and the 2012 controversialrnmejlis election and the killing of a Sufi cleric as the triggering factors for the Sufi-Salafi conflictrnin South Wollo. Although impartial intra-religious dialogue and negotiation was variouslyrnsuggested as tools of resolution, it had been sabotaged by the government and Ahbash. This isrnevidenced by the interference of the government in the 2012 mejlis election and the eventualrnascendancy of Ahbash leadership to the zonal mejlis. The realist security orientation of therngovernment was also incompatible to resolve identity based intra-religious conflict in SouthrnWollo as it ceded preference for its own state security. The researcher argues that therneffectiveness of intra-religious peace and the transformation of the Sufi-Salafi conflict in SouthrnWollo should be governed by the principles of non-interference, cooperation and peacernbuilding.