About: Petro-Islam

An Entity of Type: Thing, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Petro-Islam is a neologism used to refer to the international propagation of the extremist and fundamentalist interpretations of Sunni Islam derived from the doctrines of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, a Sunni Muslim preacher, scholar, reformer and theologian from Uyaynah in the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, eponym of the Islamic revivalist movement known as Wahhabism. This movement has been favored by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the other Arab states of the Persian Gulf.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Petro-Islam is a neologism used to refer to the international propagation of the extremist and fundamentalist interpretations of Sunni Islam derived from the doctrines of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, a Sunni Muslim preacher, scholar, reformer and theologian from Uyaynah in the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, eponym of the Islamic revivalist movement known as Wahhabism. This movement has been favored by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the other Arab states of the Persian Gulf. Its name derives from source of the funding, petroleum exports, that spread it through the Muslim world after the Yom Kippur War. The term is sometimes called "pejorative" or a "nickname".According to Sandra Mackey the term was coined by Fouad Ajami. It has been used by French political scientist Gilles Kepel, Bangladeshi scholar Imtiyaz Ahmed, and Egyptian philosopher Fouad Zakariyya, among others. (en)
  • Petroislam är en extremistiska och fundamentalistiska tolkningen av sunniislam, ibland kallad wahhabism, understödd av det konservativa oljeexporterande Saudiarabien. Dess namn härstammar från finansieringskällan, oljeexport, som sprider den genom den muslimska världen efter Yom Kippur-kriget. Termen används pejorativt och som ett smeknamn. Enligt Sandra Mackey myntades termen av . Det har använts av den franska statsvetaren Gilles Kepel, bangladeshiska religionsforskare , och den egyptiska filosofen . (sv)
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 42320611 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageInterLanguageLink
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 48678 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1100619716 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
rdfs:comment
  • Petroislam är en extremistiska och fundamentalistiska tolkningen av sunniislam, ibland kallad wahhabism, understödd av det konservativa oljeexporterande Saudiarabien. Dess namn härstammar från finansieringskällan, oljeexport, som sprider den genom den muslimska världen efter Yom Kippur-kriget. Termen används pejorativt och som ett smeknamn. Enligt Sandra Mackey myntades termen av . Det har använts av den franska statsvetaren Gilles Kepel, bangladeshiska religionsforskare , och den egyptiska filosofen . (sv)
  • Petro-Islam is a neologism used to refer to the international propagation of the extremist and fundamentalist interpretations of Sunni Islam derived from the doctrines of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, a Sunni Muslim preacher, scholar, reformer and theologian from Uyaynah in the Najd region of the Arabian Peninsula, eponym of the Islamic revivalist movement known as Wahhabism. This movement has been favored by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the other Arab states of the Persian Gulf. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Petro-Islam (en)
  • Petroislam (sv)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License