Former Israeli ambassador to the U.N. Gold examines the ties between Saudi Arabia and an extremist sect of Islam, Wahhabism. HATRED'S KINGDOM argues, with various bits of evidence translated from the Arabic, that the Saudis have been religiously and economically underwriting much of the terrorism born in the Middle East.
Before 9/11, few Westerners had heard of Wahhabism. Today, it is a household word. Frequently mentioned in association with Osama bin Laden, Wahhabism is portrayed by the media and public officials as an intolerant, puritanical, militant interpretation of Islam that calls for the wholesale destruction of the West in a jihad of global proportions. ...
What are the roots of todays 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. ...
This book reveals the theories that inspire al-Qaeda. There is no other accessible book on the subject. This is the sect that threatens the stability of Saudi Arabia and the Middle East. Wahhabism has been generating controversy since it first emerged in Arabia in the 18th century. In the wake of September 11th instant theories have emerged that ...
What is Wahhabism? What is its relationship with the Saudi state? Does it play a part in Islamist terrorist threats? These are among the complex questions tackled in "Religion and Politics in Saudi Arabia". Moving from the historical, social, and political contexts in which Wahhabism originated and flourished to its current internal divisions and ...
Current troubles in the Middle East have focused much international attention on Saudi Arabia. However, little has been published in English on the background to its culture and its roots in the First Saudi State that arose in 18th-century central Arabia. The Islamic reform movement that gave it its sense of mission, and the life and thought of ...
The Moroccan mystic and theologian Ahmad b. Idris was one of the most dynamic personalities in the 19th-century Islamic world. this text throws light on Ibn Idris' attitude towards the religious-dogmatics questions of his day and age.
Description: Minor rubbing. Rubberstamp to title-page. VG. 19x13cm, 344, (8) pp, Series: Hakikat Kitabevi Publications, No. 11. Author's name from cover. Contents: The Beliefs of the Wahhâbîs and their refuation by the Scholars of Ahl as-Sunna; The Beginning & Spread of Wahhâ bîsm. read more
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