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

Name: God's Terrorists The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad
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ISBN: 9780306815706

ISBN-10: 0306815702

ISBN-13: 9780306815706

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Authors: Charles Allen

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In today's post-9/11 world, the everyday news shows us images of fanatic fighters and suicide bombers willing to die in holy war, martyrs for jihad. But what are the roots of this militant fundamentalism in the Muslim world? In this insightful and wide-ranging history, Charles Allen finds an answer in the 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, Moslems and pagans alike. As the Wahhabi teaching spread in the nineteenth century, first, to the Arabian peninsula, and then, to the region around the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, their followers…

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List price: $21.99
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 9/4/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Maps


Preface


Acknowledgements


Introduction: 'Am I not a Pakhtun?'



Death of a Commissioner



The Puritan of the Desert



The False Dawn of the Imam-Mahdi



The Call of the Imam-Mahdi



The Early Summer of 1857



The Late Summer of 1857



The Ambeyla Disaster



The Wahabees on Trial



The Frontier Ablaze



The Brotherhood



The Coming Together



The Unholy Alliance


Leading Muslim personalities



The roots of the Al-Saud - Al-Wahhab family alliance



The 'Wahhabi' family tree in India


Glossary


Bibliography


Index