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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Wahhabism"”.
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Saudi Arabia And Expansionist Wahhabism
This thesis examines the development of Wahhabism as an ideology into a rapidly expanding, transportable, contemporary Islamic political system. Serving as the territorial foundation, individuals maintain allegiance to Makkah, the center of the Islamic world, through symbolic Islamic prayer. Along …
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"Contesting Islam: ""Homegrown Wahhabism,"" Education and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920--2005"
"The study argues that Wahhabism, the official version of Islam in Saudi Arabia, was and in many ways remains, a homegrown religious phenomenon that built primarily on preexisting tensions in the northern Ghanaian Muslim society and that Middle Eastern and North African contact through pilgrimage, …
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The Political Impact of the Rising Salafi-Wahhabi Influence in Bosnia-Herzegovina
… thesis examines the political impact of Salafi-Wahhabism in contemporary Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) since the El Mujahed Brigade of mujahedeen introduced this puritanical Saudi form of Islam during the 1992-1995 War that broke apart the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFROY). This study …
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The Growing Threat of Islamic Radicalism in Europe
… have led to the growth of radical Islam, such as Wahhabism, and the Soviet-Afghanistan war. European birthrates and immigration rates are also examined. Following this, two chapters examine how the message of radical Islam is able to grow within Europe by developing a profile of many immigrants …
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New Middle East Cold War: Saudi Arabia and Iran's Rivalry
… Saudi Arabia, representing Sunni Islam via Wahhabism, and Iran, representing Shi’ite Islam through Khomeinism. The nature of the Saudi-Iranian rivalry has led many Middle East experts to identify their rivalry as a “New Middle East Cold War.” The Saudi-Iranian rivalry has important …
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Pilgrimages and syncretism: Religious Transformation Among the Arsi Oromo of Ethiopia
… the emergence and spread of the Salafi movement (Wahhabism) in the 1970s. Islam became the religion of the majority of the Arsi Oromo in the 1970s, thereby decreasing the importance of the Waaqeffannaa religion and leading to the emergence of syncretistic cults.
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Ideological Collocation in Meta-Wahhabi Discourse Post-911 : A Symbiosis of Critical Discourse Analysis and Corpus Linguistics.
… same socio-religious practice of Wahhabi Islam/Wahhabism. First, using WorSmith5, keywords were used to identify the different semantic foci in the two texts, along with their relevant 'macropropositions' (Van Dijk 1980, 1995, 2009b). A small number of keywords were selected for further …