Ikhwān, Saudi Arabia

by Commins, David

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The Ikhwān were Arab tribesmen from the territory of Najd who abandoned nomadic life to settle in agricultural colonies in the early twentieth century and who embraced the Wahhābī doctrine, thereby playing a significant role in the rise of modern Saudi Arabia . They considered the shift from nomadic to sedentary life as a migration from unbelief to belief, hence a settlement was called a hijra (pl. hujar ), or place of emigration, an allusion to the prophet Muḥammad’s emigration from Mecca to M…

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The Ikhwān were Arab tribesmen from the territory of Najd who abandoned nomadic life to settle in agricultural colonies in the early twentieth century and who embraced the Wahhābī doctrine, thereby playing a significant role in the rise of modern Saudi Arabia . They considered the shift from nomadic to sedentary life as a migration from unbelief to belief, hence a settlement was called a hijra (pl. hujar ), or place of emigration, an allusion to the prophet Muḥammad’s emigration from Mecca to Medina in 622 C.E. The Ikhwān contributed

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei2653

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eng Islam

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Commins, David

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