But there is no Wahhabi institution more difficult to define than the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. Founded in the 1920s, when the Saudi state came into being, as an ...

This column was written by Stephen Schwartz. I should have known something would be out of kilter. At the end of September, the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE), an international body ...

The anointment of the House of Saud more than three centuries ago came with a pledge to rule in tandem with the austere clerics of Wahhabi Islam whose puritanical theology has provided some of the ...

The great majority of Kosovar Albanians take pride in their reputation as the most pro-American Muslims in the world. Their Sunni Islam is conventional and moderate, and spiritual Sufism is a powerful ...

Perhaps because I so resent identification of “Christians” with “Christian fundamentalism” (you know, as in “Christian” music and “Christian movies” and “Christian schools”), I really feel for Muslims ...

Perhaps no single figure better represents the lamentable situation of Middle East studies (MES) today than Professor Natana J. DeLong-Bas, a Georgetown graduate who currently teaches at Brandeis ...

When I joined the foreign ministry in 1972, a major foreign policy concern in the region was that Southeast Asian nations would soon fall like dominoes to militant communism supported and abetted by ...

Make no mistake: Wahhabi fanaticism is terrorism’s ideological mother, whose offspring include groups such as al Qaeda, the Taliban, Laskar-e-Taiba, Boko Haram, al-Shabab and Islamic State, all of ...

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In the wake of last May's suicide bombings in Riyadh, many Saudis are questioning the role of Wahhabism, the government-sponsored brand of Islam, in breeding militant beliefs. Among the dissenters are ...

MIGHT soccer fans yet cheer a Wahhabi state? Qatar, the World Cup’s hosts in 2022, adheres to the same puritanical creed as its overbearing neighbour, Saudi Arabia. But nightclubs on hotel rooftops ...

RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's ruling Al Saud royal family are trying to adjust their relationship with the country's strict Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam as they increasingly view the teachings of ...