The Wahhabi Code

How the Saudis Spread Extremism Globally

Terence Ward

• Publisher: Arcade
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN:
  9781628729719
• eBook ISBN:
  9781628729726
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

An Eye-Opening, Concise Look at the Source of the Current Wave of Terrorism, How it Spread, and Why the West Did Nothing Lifting the mask of international terrorism, Terence Ward reveals a sinister truth. Far from being "the West's ally in the War on Terror, " Saudi Arabia is in reality the largest exporter of Wahhabism—the severe, ultra-conservative sect of Islam that is both Saudi Arabia's official religion and the core ideology for international terror groups such as ISIS, al-Qaeda, the Taliban, and Boko Haram. Over decades, the Saudi regime has engaged in a well-crafted mission to fund charities, mosques, and schools that promote their Wahhabi doctrine across the Middle East and beyond. Efforts to expand Saudi influence have now been focused on European cities as well. The front lines of the War of Terror aren't a world away; they are much closer than we can imagine. Terence Ward, who has spent much of his life in the Middle East, gives his unique insight into the culture of extremism, its rapid expansion, and how it can be stopped.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• 1 On Parisian Boulevards
• 2 Clarity in Chaos
• 3 Arabia of the Wahhabis
• 4 A Pact in the Desert
• 5 Seiges of Mecca
• 6 Unspoken Connections
• 7 Origins of Islam
• 8 The Shia Passion
• 9 Hidden Faces of Islam: Sufism and the Poets
• 10 The Sunni World: Past and Present
• 11 Message for the Young
• 12 A Letter from the Aegean Sea
• 13 The Road to Samarkand
• Notes
• Selected Bibliography
• Photos