Toward the Seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca: The Writings and Ideology of Juhaymān al-ʿUtaybī and the Ikhwān

This article seeks to explain how the pietist movement led by Juhaymān al-ʿUtaybī culminated in the seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca in November 1979, a pivotal event in the history of modern Saudi Arabia that contributed to the increasingly conservative orientation of Saudi policy in subsequent...

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Main Author: Bunzel, Cole M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2023
In: Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2023, Volume: 63, Issue: 4, Pages: 383-417
Further subjects:B Saudi Arabia
B Salafism
B Apocalypticism
B Juhaymān al-ʿUtaybī
B mahdism
B Wahhābism
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