As the Israeli assault on Gaza passes the 13-month mark, and as Hezbollah reels under the massive Israeli bombing campaign on its leaders and operational centers in Lebanon, it has become clear that ...

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The country is ruled by the Al Saud royal family along with a coalition of ultraconservative Wahhabi religious elites. Together, they enforce Islamic law and define themselves as an Arab Islamic ...

The Wahhabis demanded a stricter observance of Islamic law. Although their appeal was limited in Southeast Asia, some people were attracted to Wahhabi styles of teaching. There was a growing feeling ...

Wahhabi Islam is more correctly called Salafism. Safa al Ahmad finds that, post the Arab uprisings, the Salafis are split between jihadists, democrats and apolitical pietists. Show more Wahhabism ...

The close relationship between the heir to the Wahhabi kingdom's throne, Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and Vladimir Putin, and Riyadh's pivot towards Moscow is troubling, given that Riyadh had been ...

The Wahhabi brand of Islam attracted the young and it also had financial backing from abroad," said Mazook Ahamed Lebbe, an official from the Federation of Mosques in the eastern town of Kattankudy.

Five women have been killed in a shooting at a church in Russia's volatile republic of Dagestan. Five others, including a police officer and a national guardsman, were injured, Russian officials said.

As the oil runs dry (displaced by shale), Saudi Arabia’s population will be increasingly ripe for manipulation by geriatric Wahhabi clerics. Such men believe that women are at best a necessary ...

While the majority is far from being enamoured by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Wahhabi-Salafi doctrine that ISIS claims to represent in unadulterated form does appeal to many of ...

By Najmuddin Ahmad Farooqi In today’s rapidly advancing technological landscape, developing nations face the challenge of ...