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God's terrorists : the Wahhabi cult and hidden roots of modern Jihad / Charles Allen.
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Allen, Charles, 1940-2020
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English
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1st Da Capo Press ed.
Published/Created
Cambridge, Mass. : Da Capo Press, 2006.
Description
xiv, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : genealogical tables, maps ; 24 cm
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BP195.W2 A45 2006b
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Jihad
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Wahhābīyah
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Islamic fundamentalism
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Islam
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Summary note
"What are the roots of today's militant fundamentalism in the Muslim world? In this insightful and wide-ranging history, Charles Allen finds an answer in an eighteenth-century reform movement of Muhammed ibn Abd al-Wahhab and his followers-the Wahhabi-who sought the restoration of Islamic purity and declared violent jihad on all who opposed them. The Wahhabi teaching spread rapidly-first throughout the Arabian Peninsula, then to the Indian subcontinent, where a more militant expression of Wahhabism flourished. The ranks of today's Taliban and al-Qaeda are filled with young men trained in Wahhabi theology. God's Terrorists sheds much-needed light on the origins of modern terrorism and shows how this dangerous ideology lives on today."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: 'Am I not a Pakhtun?'
Death of a commissioner
The puritan of the desert
The false dawn of the Imam-Mahdi
The call of the Imam-Mahdi
The early summer of 1857
The late summer of 1857
The Ambeyla disaster
The Wahabees on trial
The frontier ablaze
The brotherhood
The coming together
The unholy alliance
Leading Muslim personalities
Appendix 1: The roots of the Al-Saud
Al-Wahhab family alliance
Appendix 2: The 'Wahhabi' family tree in India.
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ISBN
0306815222
9780306815225
OCLC
71297048
International Article Number
9780306815225
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