Commins, David

Commins, David. Contestation and Authority in Wahhabi Polemics. In Religion and Politics in Saudi Arabia: Wahhabism and the State, edited by Mohammed Ayoob and Hasan Kosebalaban, 39-53. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers,...

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Scholarship on Islam in the Middle East and North Africa spans a range of disciplines in the humanities (e.g., religion, art history, literature) and social sciences (e.g., history, anthropology, sociology, political science)....

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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