In the wake of September 11th instant theories have emerged that try to root Osama Bin Laden's attacks on Wahhabism. Muslim critics have dismissed this conservative interpretation of Islam that is the official creed of Saudi...
Commins, David. “Osama bin Laden's Declaration of Jihad Against Americans (1996).” In Milestone Documents in World History: Exploring the Primary Sources That Shaped the World, edited by Brian Bonhomme and Cathleen Boivin, Vol....
For more information on the published version, visit American University of Beirut Press's Website., The purpose of this essay is to explore questions related to political identity in late Ottoman Syria on the basis of...
The modern Salafist movement gets its name from the Arabic word salaf , which means ancestors or forefathers. In religious usage, it refers to the earliest Muslim generations, the righteous ancestors, in Arabic al-salaf...
Commins, David. Saudi Arabia, Southern Arabia and the Gulf States from the First World War. In New Cambridge History of Islam, edited by Francis Robinson, Vol. 5, 451-80. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010., This...
Published as: Commins, David. “Syria.” In Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion , 2nd ed., edited by Robert Wuthnow. Thousand Oaks, CA: CQ Press, 2006. For more information on the published version, visit CQ Press's Website....
(1909-77), founder and chief ideologue of the Islamic Liberation Party ( ḥizb al -taḥrīr al -islāmī ), which has striven since its formation in 1952 to establish an Islamic state and has been particularly active in Jordan. Al...
Wahhabism is without question one of the major movements of Islamic renewal in modern times. Among its controversial positions was the assertion that Ottoman rule was illegitimate. It was therefore natural for the Ottomans to...
Wahhabism has been generating controversy since it first emerged in Arabia in the 18th century. In the wake of September 11th instant theories have emerged that try to root Osama Bin Laden's attacks on Wahhabism. Muslim critics...
For more information on the published version, visit Brill's Website., For the past two centuries, observers of the Muslim world have frequently traced religious purification campaigns to Wahhabi influence. For instance,...