Author: ALLEN, CHARLES
Title: God's terrorists : the Wahhabi cult and hidden roots of modern Jihad / Charles Allen
Description: Cambridge. Mass. : Da Capo Press 2006. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 349 pages; 1st Da Capo Press edition. Summary: 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 brought with them a vicious brand of political ideology and militant conflict. 'God's Terrorists' sheds shocking light on the historical roots of modern terrorism and shows how this dangerous theology lives on today. Physical description: xiv. 349 p. [16] p. of plates : geneal. tables. maps ; 24 cm. Subjects: Jihad -- Wahhabiyah -- Islamic fundamentalism -- Islam -- Doctrines.Weight in Kg appr.:

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