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020			_a978-0-349-11879-6
082			_a297.814 _bALL/G
100			_aAllen, Charles
245			_aGod's terrorists: the Wahhabi cult and hidden roots of modern Jihad
260			_aLondon _bAbacus _c2007
300			_a349 p.
520			_aWhat 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.
650			_aIslam--Doctrines _aIslamic fundamentalism _aJihad _aWahhābīyah _aTerrorism--Religious aspects--Islam _aMuḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, 1703 or 1704-1792
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