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God's Terrorists: The Wahhabi Cult and the Hidden Roots of Modern Jihad Hardcover – August 28, 2006

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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. The Wahhabi deeply influenced the rulers of modern Saudi Arabia and their establishment of a strict Islamic code. A more militant expression of Wahhabism took root in the mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where fierce tribes have waged holy war for almost two hundred years. The ranks of the Taliban and al-Qaeda today are filled with young men who were taught the Wahhabi theology of Islamic purity while rifles were pressed into their hands for the sake of jihad. God's Terrorists sheds shocking light on the historical roots of modern terrorism and shows how this dangerous theology lives on today.
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  1. Print length
    368 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Da Capo Press
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    August 28, 2006
  5. Dimensions
    6.25 x 1.25 x 9.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0306815222
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0306815225
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  • Seth Grossman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Accurately Explains Success of Islamic Extremists Today
    Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2023
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    This remarkable book explains in detail how a radical, intolerant, and violent cult of Islam began in a remote part of Arabia in the 1700s, became dominant in British India in the 1800s, and grew into a worldwide threat today.
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  • Concerned about our future
    4.0 out of 5 stars A warning to Western Civilization - the roots of terror
    Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2007
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    Interesting historical look at the spread of radical Islam throughout colonial India and its ties back to the rise of radical Islamic theology in the declining Ottoman Empire. It exposes roots to terrorist movements like al Qaeda and ties the roots of this radical movement to the House of Saud like few other accounts have.

    There are clearly lessons to be learned here and insights about what the West is up against - particular in this region of the world where Bin Laden is believed to be given safe-harbored but I was completely let down by the author's brief and poorly argued conclusion. It seemed thrown-in as an after thought.

    Otherwise it was a fascinating historical read that I would highly recommend.
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  • Ohgahd
    5.0 out of 5 stars God's Terrrorists
    Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2009
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    Don't be confused by a previous review. Terrorism and Wahhabism are indeed synonymous. That terrorism is currently being played out by the spawn: Taliban and al-Qaeda. This is a well-researched book albeit it a difficult read for the novice of Islam. If you are curious about how our civilization got into this mess, read this accounting of Muslim history. The reading has left me frustrated about how global terrorism will ever be conquered because of this fundamentalism rooted in Wahhabi teachings. Take young men, send them to Wahabbi madrassahs, teach them to administer sharia law to include beheading and mutilation of the apostate and infidel populations with a goal of martyrdom and you come up with the challenge of the 21st century!
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  • Terence K.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on February 4, 2016
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    Good informative read
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  • Saeed Anwar
    5.0 out of 5 stars A must for those who would like to understand the background to Militant Islam and it's ...
    Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2015
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    A must for those who would like to understand the background to Militant Islam and it's ever creeping past and aggression.
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  • W. H. Orman
    3.0 out of 5 stars Exhaustively researched, but flawed
    Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2012
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    The book is useful & contains some important information, but spends far too much time & space going into exhaustive detail about various battles in the Northwest Frontier Province of what was then India, when more detail on the Wahhabi movement in Saudi Arabia & it's political resurgence would have been more useful. It seems to segue abruptly back there.

    At the same time, learning about the Wahhabi roots of the Deoband seminary was valuable.
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  • Brian Koontz
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good material
    Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2017
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    Book was purchased for a classroom report. It got an A.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
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    This was a very informative read.
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  • Sid Raina
    5.0 out of 5 stars Top fav. on Wahhabi subject.
    Reviewed in India on July 25, 2017
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    the author really explains history in such a way that you feel he's lived every moment.
    good neutral view of wahhabi cult and quite smartly explained how india has been affected and influenced by it.
    bought on a friend's recommendation. did not regret.
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  • Debbie A.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Scholarship of the first order
    Reviewed in Canada on March 4, 2013
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    A meticulously plotted line from the Njid Desert in the 1700's to modern times. The book brings real meaning to the term Al.Qaida and points to it's real origins in Bedow culture and the way Islam has been co-opted to cover over the fault lines of Empire. The book is as careful in it's elucidation of the nexus of politics and theology as it is in eliding the role of British Imperialism in the mess the modern world inherited form it. The book should be read concurrently with George Antonius' "The Arab Awakening" for anyone who wants some real insight into the current middle east.
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  • Uwe Gehrke
    5.0 out of 5 stars Verbindungen lange vor Bin Laden
    Reviewed in Germany on March 7, 2014
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    Der Autor - ein Kenner der Geschichte Britisch-Indiens - stellt hier die Geschichte der ersten wahabbitischen Ableger in Indien. Bereits im 19 Jahrhundert spielte diese Sekte eine gewisse Revolte bei der Indischen Meuterein Gut geschrieben, in einem verständlichen Englisch.
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  • Martin Barrett
    5.0 out of 5 stars Putting Today's Headlines into Historical Context
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 14, 2007
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    This is a fascinating read. In a world dominated by sound-bites of a few seconds, it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that every new event must have its root causes in the recent past. Nowhere is this assumption more prevalent than when that epitome of 21st century phenomena - Islamic terrorism - is discussed. There seems a consensus among commentators that the actions of al Qaeda and their ilk today are the consequences of recent foreign policy decisions in London and Washington, and by extension that decisions made today can have an immediate impact on such organisations' future plans.

    What Charles Allen reminds us is that exponents of Wahhabism, indistinguishable from their modern counterparts in al Qaeda, have been taking up arms against "the West" since the early nineteenth century and that their reasons remain unchanged and, according to their philosophy, both moral and logical.

    The author puts today's activities into context, though it is difficult to reach anything but a dark conclusion about what our immediate future holds as a result.

    I don't share other reviewers' disappointment at the lack of intricate detail about Wahabbism's local origins, or the concentration on historic rather than current events. Both these aspects are beyond the scope of a book which does exactly what I hoped it would - it explains how we arrived at this point and highlights the naivity of approaching the fight against al Qaeda as a sort of PR-driven election campaign in which the enemy would surrender if only we could get the correct leaflet in front of bin Laden.
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  • T P S Sidhu
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book
    Reviewed in India on April 1, 2021
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    A very good book to understand the theory and practices of Wahhabism and roots of the modern jihad. Also gives the account of contribution of the movements towards the 1857 Uprising. Although difficult to remember all the details but gives the basic understanding.
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