God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad

God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad image
ISBN-10:

0306815702

ISBN-13:

9780306815706

Author(s): ALLEN, CHARLES
Edition: First Edition
Released: Sep 04, 2007
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Format: Paperback, 384 pages
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Description:

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.












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