The Wahhabist Arc
The Purity Gradient’s Terminus
On Sayyid Qutb, takfir, the logic of jihadism, and how the Wahhabist arc arrives at the same destination as the Protestant arc by a different route
The Wahhabist Arc
The Wahhabist Arc
The Oil and the Creed
On how the discovery of oil gave a marginal Arabian theology a global delivery mechanism, and what happened to the world’s Muslim communities when the most expensive religious export in history arrived at their doors
The Wahhabist Arc
The Arabian Reformation
On Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, the pact with Ibn Saud, and how the same stripping program that Luther ran on Christianity was run on Islam a century and a half later with structurally identical results