TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allen, Charles
TI  - God's terrorists: the Wahhabi cult and hidden roots of modern Jihad
SN  - 978-0-349-11879-6
U1  - 297.814 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - London
PB  - Abacus
KW  - Islam--Doctrines
KW  - Islamic fundamentalism
KW  - Jihad
KW  - Wahhābīyah
KW  - Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam
KW  - Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, 1703 or 1704-1792
N2  - 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
ER  -