Najd before the Salafi Reform Movement
تاريخ النشر: 01/01/2001
الناشر: Ithaca press
نبذة الناشر:In the middle of the twelfth/eighteenth century, a religious reform movement arose in Najd, central Arabia. This movement, known as the Salafiyya, called for a return to the pure and original teachings of the Qur'an and the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad. In the later decades of the century, it ...spread to other parts of Najd, and eventually it controlled most of Arabia. It produced a formidable state that unified Arabia and imposed peace and order on its people for the first time since the early caliphs of Islam.
Despite the central role it played in the creation of modern Saudi Arabia, the social, political, and religious conditions which led to the emergence of the Salafi movement are not well understood, and seem a historical puzzle, for pre-Salafi Najd was not a centre of religious learning, nor did it contain the large urban communities which might be expected to produce such a movement.
In this pioneering book Professor Al Juhany brings his scholarship to bear on scant and difficult sources on the study of Najd during the three centuries preceding the rise of the Salafis. The result is a fascinating historical narrative that reveals phenomenal development in the spheres of nomadic migration, settlement, the growth of the sedentary population and the growth of religious learning. These all combined to produce a new society that had new prospects and expectations by the middle of the twelfth/eighteenth century.
Uwaidah M. Al Juhany is Associate Professor at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. إقرأ المزيد