The Wahhabi mission and Saudi Arabia
By: Commins, David Dean
Material type: BookPublisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, c2006.Description: xi, 276 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781845110802Subject(s): Wahhābīyah -- Saudi Arabia | Islam and state -- Saudi Arabia | Islam and politics -- Saudi Arabia | Saudi Arabia -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 297.81409538
Summary:
This is a definitive and authoritative account of the conservative interpretation of Islam that is the official creed of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Wahhabism. Muslim critics have dismissed it as a heretical innovation that manipulated a backward people to gain political control. David Commins dismisses the clichés, examines the nature of Wahhabism, and offers original findings as to how Wahhabism rose to dominance in Arabia and projected its influence in the Muslim world. He also assesses the challenges that it faces from radical militants within the Kingdom.
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Islamic Collection | 297.81409538 CO WA (Browse shelf) | Available | T0034286 |
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297.804 DO NO Do not become angry | 297.81 GL OB Global salafism : Islam's new religious movement | 297.81092 AS RO The road to Mecca / | 297.81409538 CO WA The Wahhabi mission and Saudi Arabia | 297.83 LA MA The making of Salafism : | 297.89 PU RI Purify my heart | 297.89 TA GA Gardens of purification |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-269) and index.
This is a definitive and authoritative account of the conservative interpretation of Islam that is the official creed of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Wahhabism. Muslim critics have dismissed it as a heretical innovation that manipulated a backward people to gain political control. David Commins dismisses the clichés, examines the nature of Wahhabism, and offers original findings as to how Wahhabism rose to dominance in Arabia and projected its influence in the Muslim world. He also assesses the challenges that it faces from radical militants within the Kingdom.