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Title: Wahhabism: A Critical Essay by Hamid Algar ISBN: 1-889999-13-X Publisher: Islamic Publications International Pub. Date: 10 March, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.92 (13 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Concise
Comment: Hamid Algar, in his essay book "Wahhabism", summarizes the birth, spread, and influence of the right wing Islamic Wahhabist sect in Saudi Arabia and world wide.
Although he does not discuss the ideological details of the Wahhabist sect, he does provide a good end-to-end overview highlighting its principles and its contributions to the creation of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the impact of its alliance with the Saudi royal family, and its attempts of spreading its right wing ideology within Europe, USA, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
The book starts off with some difficulty since the author is anti-Wahhabism and therefore, on few occasions, he jumps back and forth between documenting the historical events and refuting the Wahhabist ideology without giving sufficient details to support his arguments. Few pages into the book, its tone changes and the focus becomes a summary of historical events, wrapped at the end with a list of organizations that have Wahhabist influence and Saudi funding. He does touch briefly on the relationship between Wahhabism, 9/11, and the Taliban. He also hints on the current strain on the Saudi-Wahhabist alliance post 9/11.
Although there were times when it was difficult to follow the author's train of thought, the over all book provides a good starting point for anyone who is interested in Saudi history and its modern methodology for spreading Wahhabism throughout the world. The book can be used as a launch pad for identifying further, and more detailed, readings.
Rating: 5
Summary: Necessary expose of Wahhabism--the ideology of terrorism.
Comment: This book is a timely effort. Traditional Muslim scholars fought against this heresy disguising itself in the garb of Islam from the time of its inception by the infamous Ibn Abd al Wahhab al-Najdi who is detailed in this book. Indeed, his own brother, Shaykh Sulayman ibn Abdul Wahhab refuted him as did the great Muslim scholars all over the world; and they are still doing.
This movement is extremely crude and cultish and rejects almost all of the traditional teachings of Islam which do not fit into its narrow black and white views: any Muslim who disagrees with them is considered a non-believer! They are only about 2% of the world's Muslims but because of Saudi petro-dollars their beliefs have spread far and wide amongst the disenchanted youth. They have an especial hatred for Sufism--the heart of Islam and because they can offer nothing spiritual to their followers, Wahhabism is the first step to becoming angry with the rest of the world and leads to terrorism. All the Muslim terrorist organisations are Wahhabi in creed or sympathetic to Wahhabism. This book therefore is excellent for allowing misinformed Western Muslims and non Muslims to differentiate between the religion of Islam (respresented by the Sufis in its highest form and scholars like Imam Ghazzali (12th century), Imam Abu Hanifa (8th) and Imam Ahmad Rida Khan (20th) to name just three from different centuries of Islamic history) and Wahhabism.
Rating: 5
Summary: High time
Comment: It's high time that ppl started revealing these puritanicals as the whackos they really are. Their version of Islam is very weakly rooted in the true understandings of Islam and in fact a corruption of the religion.
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Title: The Two Faces of Islam : The House of Sa'ud from Tradition to Terror by Stephen Schwartz ISBN: 0385506929 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Social Justice in Islam by Sayyid Qutb, John B. Hardie, Hamid Algar ISBN: 1889999113 Publisher: Islamic Publications International Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Place of Tolerance in Islam by Khaled Abou El Fadl, Joshua Cohen, Ian Lague ISBN: 0807002291 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 08 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Society of the Muslim Brothers by Richard P. Mitchell, John O. Voll ISBN: 0195084373 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr on Demand Pub. Date: June, 1993 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism by Dore Gold ISBN: 0895261359 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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