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1st Da Capo Press ed. |
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xiv, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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| Summary |
"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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Jihad.
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Wahhbyah.
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Islamic fundamentalism.
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Islam -- Doctrines.
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Islam -- Doctrines.
(OCoLC)fst00979787
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Islamic fundamentalism. (OCoLC)fst00979941
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Jihad. (OCoLC)fst00983599
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Wahhbyah. (OCoLC)fst01169912
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| ISBN |
0306815222 |
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9780306815225 |
| Standard No. |
9780306815225 |
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