God's Terrorists

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'Charles Allen is a fine narrative historian w^hose work is always stimulating and readable a fascinating new book' Spectator
Here is the astonishing history of Wahhabism, the guiding ideology behind modern Islamist terrorism. In the late eighteenth century a violently intolerant reinterpretation of Islam took root in the Arabian desert. Its followers became known, after their founder, as the Wahhabi. The creed was then exported to India and its North-West Frontier with Afghanistan.
Both in Arabia and India the Wahhabis were brought to the verge of extinction many times, only to regroup. Then in the early 1980s a combination of events allowed these strands to converge and cross-infect. Two very different organisations emerged, one tight-knit and localised, the other loose-knit and with global aspirations: the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
'This long, bloody and commandingly told story does what we long for history to do: tells a tale of long ago that throws new if uncomfortable... Tovább

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r
'Charles Allen is a fine narrative historian w^hose work is always stimulating and readable a fascinating new book' Spectator
Here is the astonishing history of Wahhabism, the guiding ideology behind modern Islamist terrorism. In the late eighteenth century a violently intolerant reinterpretation of Islam took root in the Arabian desert. Its followers became known, after their founder, as the Wahhabi. The creed was then exported to India and its North-West Frontier with Afghanistan.
Both in Arabia and India the Wahhabis were brought to the verge of extinction many times, only to regroup. Then in the early 1980s a combination of events allowed these strands to converge and cross-infect. Two very different organisations emerged, one tight-knit and localised, the other loose-knit and with global aspirations: the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
'This long, bloody and commandingly told story does what we long for history to do: tells a tale of long ago that throws new if uncomfortable
light on our world' Sunday Times
'A story of intransigence, hatred of modernity, millennial dreams, bloody massacres and invariably disappointed hopes' Independent
'Allen marshals his formidable knowledge of Bîitish Indi^ fo considerable effect. His book offers a valuable guide' Scotsman
History
www.godstcrroiists.co.uk
Charles Allen
ISBN 978-0-349-11879-6
ukL10.99
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