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An international expert traces the rise of the extreme ideology of Wahhabism, which has been the ideological bedrock of the state of Saudi Arabia since its original rise in the eighteenth century, and argues that it is this ideology that is fueling ISIS and terror cells worldwide.

WAHHABIYAH --- SALAFIYAH --- ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM--POLITICAL ASPECTS --- JIHAD --- RADICALIZATION

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Until September 11, 2001 few Westerners had ever heard of "Wahhabism." Now most of us recognize the word as describing an austere and puritanical type of Islam, mentioned frequently in connection with Osama bin Laden and Saudi Arabia and often named as the inspiration behind the 9/11 terror attacks. The word "Wahhabi" stems from the name of the founder of this system of thought, Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1702-1791), companion and religious adviser to Muhammad Ibn Saud, founder of the House of Saud. In this book Natana DeLong-Bas offers an in-depth study of the written works of al-Wahhab and demonstrates how it has been distorted into the extremist ideology now propagated by Osama bin Laden and his followers. Through a close reading of al-Wahhab's texts she demonstrates that many aspects of 20th- and 21st- century Wahhabi extremism do not have their origins in his writings but were added to Wahhabi teachings in the 19th century. She debunks the common journalistic portrayal of Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab as an illiterate, rural bumpkin with no scholarly formation. Her revisionist reading of al-Wahhab's thought will be controversial but impossible to ignore.

Islam --- Islamic fundamentalism --- Wahhābīyah. --- Wahhābīyah. --- Doctrines. --- History. --- Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb,

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World War, 1914-1918 --- Arabs. --- Bedouins. --- Wahhābīyah. --- Campaigns --- Turkey and the Middle East. --- Arabian Peninsula --- Social life and customs.

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"In the post-9/11 world, each day's news presents us with images of fanatical 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, Muslims and pagans alike."--Jacket.

Fundamentalismus. --- Islam --- Islam. --- Islamic fundamentalism --- Islamic fundamentalism. --- Jihad. --- Terrorism --- Wahhabiten. --- Wahhābīyah. --- Doctrines. --- History --- Religious aspects --- 1800-1899.

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World War, 1914-1918 --- Soldiers --- Arabs --- Bedouins --- Wahhābīyah --- Campaigns --- Personal narratives, British. --- Biography. --- History --- Lawrence, T. E. --- Arabian Peninsula --- Social life and customs.