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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 09/04/2007
ISBN: 9780306815706
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.69h x 5.83w x 1.02d

Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2008 pg. 18