Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Taliban of Afghanistan
Puritanical reform' as a 'revolutionary war' program
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5724754 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shivan Mahendrarajah (University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 383-407 |
| Publication date | 2015-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Small Wars and Insurgencies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-2318 • E-ISSN: 1743-9558 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09592318.2014.982883 |
| OpenAlex | W1977779331 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 17 |
This article argues that the Taliban's revolutionary war (RW) program is puritanical reform informed by the Islamic legal duty of al-amr bi'l-ma‘ruf wa'l-nahy ‘an al-munkar (‘commanding what is good and forbidding what is reprehensible’). It also examines the history of this duty with examples of puritanical reform movements emerging from Berber tribes in North Africa and tribes in Arabia. Furthermore, the importance of this duty in Wahhabi Saudi Arabia, and its exportation to Pakistan where Taliban leaders imbibed this ideology, are discussed. Finally the article shows that corruption and abuses by the Afghan regime have given impetus to puritanical reformers: the condition precedent for puritanical reform is pervasive wrongdoing in an Islamic society
Afghan · Duty · Ideology · Islam · Political science · Politics · Theology · Wrongdoing · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought
Forbidding Wrong in Islam
Messianism and Puritanical Reform
Saudi Arabia in the Nineteenth Century
The History of Saudi Arabia
A History of Saudi Arabia
A History of the Maghrib in the Islamic Period
Islam's Medieval Outposts
Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Revival
Civil War, Foreign Intervention, and The Question of Political Legitimacy
International Politics, Domestic Imperatives, and Identity Mobilization
Conceptual failure, the Taliban's parallel hierarchies, and America's strategic defeat in Afghanistan
Islam and State-Building in a Tribal Society Afghanistan
The Rise of Sunni Militancy in Pakistan
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |