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This dissertation presents a critical reexamination of Wahhābism (al-Wahhābiyya), the Islamic revivalist movement named for Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb (d. 1792), from its emergence in central Arabia in the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. Drawing on an array of new primary source material, including rare manuscripts gathered from around the world, this study provides a new account of the movement’s origins, development, and persistence over a nearly two-hundred-year span, namely, 1741-1932. Its main contention is that throughout this period Wahhābism was a fundamentally exclusivist and activist movement, one set on converting the nominal Islamic world to its version of the faith by coercive means, including violence. In addition to calling on Muslims to turn away from what it considered polytheism (shirk), Wahhābism adamantly required its adherents to manifest enmity (ʿadāwa) to those Muslims deemed polytheists. As is examined in detail, Ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb grounded his doctrine in the religious thought of Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328) and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 1350), two fourteenth-century Syrian Ḥanbalī scholars who stoked controversy in their own day for thei

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Author

Cole Bunzel

Published

2018

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Middle Eastern History, Humanities