Research Catalog

Title

Wahhabism and the rise of the House of Saud / Tarik K. Firro.

Author

Firro, Tarik K.

Publication

• Eastbourne : Sussex Academic Press, 2018.
• Chicago, IL : Sussex Academic Press

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Description

viii, 220 pages; 24 cm

Summary

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 Sa'udi princes in crystallizing the core of the Sa'udi-Wahhabi 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 Sa'udi 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 Sa'udi 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 Sa'udi political entities and explains the origin of the modern Sa'udi 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.

Subject

• Muḥammad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, 1703 or 1704-1792
• Āl Saʻūd, House of
• Wahhābīyah
• Religion and state > Saudi Arabia
• Islam and state > Saudi Arabia
• Islam and state
• Religion and state
• Saudi Arabia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 18-10015

ISBN

• 9781845199340
• 1845199340

LCCN

2018019824

OCLC

1028833870

Author

Firro, Tarik K., author.

Title

Wahhabism and the rise of the House of Saud / Tarik K. Firro.

Publisher

Eastbourne : Sussex Academic Press, 2018.

Distributor

Chicago, IL : Sussex Academic Press

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 18-10015