God's terrorists : the Wahhabi cult and hidden roots of modern Jihad / Charles Allen.

Author
Allen, Charles, 1940-2020 [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Εdition
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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    "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.
    ISBN
    • 0306815222
    • 9780306815225
    OCLC
    71297048
    International Article Number
    • 9780306815225
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