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Wahhabism and the Rise of the House of Saud (Paperback)
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Wahhabism and the Rise of the House of Saud (Paperback)
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This book examines the role of Muhammad Ibn Abd al-Wahhab
(1703-1792) and his successors in reconsolidating the religious
principles of Wahhabism. It explains the role of the Saudi princes
in crystallizing the core of the SaudiWahhabi political entity
within their tribal society. Key to this explanation is the
interrelation between sedentary and nomadic populations and the
consequent impact on the development of Saudi political entities
prior to the emergence of the Saudi Kingdom. Texts of Wahhabi
scholars are compared with those of the early Hanbali scholars,
pinpointing the new religious elements introduced to foster the
Wahhabi creed. Discussion focuses on the first and second
generations of Wahhabi scholars who maintained the Wahhabi creed
with great success, keeping its hegemony as the main doctrine in
Saudi Arabia, and developing a takfiri discourse (accusing people
of being infidels) which by the nineteenth century had become the
main religious and political weapon by which the Wahhabis mobilized
supporters against their political and religious adversaries. To
better understand this development, the meaning of kufr (heresy) in
Islam and its implications in various Islamic doctrines is examined
closely. The focus on the role of Wahhabi scholars in the
nineteenth century sheds new lights on the principles of continuity
and discontinuity in the historical development of Saudi political
entities and explains the origin of the modern Saudi State.
Although major socio-economic and cultural change is now taking
place under the leadership of Prince Muhammad ibn Salman, the main
religious structures of the state remain firmly in place. It
remains to be seen how two diametric societal viewpoints will
integrate or clash. This work is essential reading for all scholars
and students of religious, cultural, social and political history
of Saudi Arabia and Islam in the Middle East.
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