Allen, Charles
God's terrorists: the Wahhabi cult and hidden roots of modern Jihad - London Abacus 2007 - 349 p.
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.
978-0-349-11879-6
Islam--Doctrines
Islamic fundamentalism
Jihad
Wahhābīyah
Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam
Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, 1703 or 1704-1792
297.814 / ALL/G
God's terrorists: the Wahhabi cult and hidden roots of modern Jihad - London Abacus 2007 - 349 p.
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.
978-0-349-11879-6
Islam--Doctrines
Islamic fundamentalism
Jihad
Wahhābīyah
Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam
Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, 1703 or 1704-1792
297.814 / ALL/G