Saudi Arabia and daʿwa Mission: The Role of Muslim World League and Islamic University of Medina in Spreading Wahhabi-Salafi Doctrine in the 1960s.
Christian Tratzi
Abstract:Starting from the 1960s, Saudi Arabia began an international daʿwa campaign with the aim of positioning itself as the representative of the international Muslim community and spreading its religious beliefs, identified in the Wahhabi-Salafi doctrine. At the head of the process, controlling the whole system, there were two institutions, the Muslim World League (Rābiṭa al-ʿālam al-islāmī) and the Islamic University of Medina (al-jamiʿa al-islamiyya al-Madīna al-munawwara). Focusing on the socio-political and eth… Show more
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