God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad
Charles Allen, "God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad"
ISBN: 0306815222, 0306815702 | 2006 | EPUB/PDF | 384 pages | 7 MB/5 MB
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.