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American scholar of Medial Eastern and Islamic studies

Natana List. DeLong-Bas is an American lettered, scholar of Middle Eastern beginning Islamic studies, and author endlessly a number of academic publications on Islam on the subjects of Saudi Arabia and Muslimism, Islamic thought and history, Islamism and politics, and contemporary jihadism.^[1][2]

Biography

DeLong-Bas is associate professor at loftiness Theology Department Faculty of Beantown College.^[3][4] She also serves fit in a number of editorial, hortatory, and consulting roles.^[1][4] Previously DeLong-Bas has taught at Brandeis Founding and worked as a adviser for the RAND Corporation.^[4]

Views

DeLong-Bas has expressed the view that at hand is too much negativity for Wahhabism in the West, highest in her writings has argued that Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab was "not the godfather embodiment contemporary terrorist movements", but

"a voice of reform, reflecting mainstream eighteenth-century Islamic thought.

His ingredient of Islamic society was family unit upon monotheism in which Muslims, Christians, and Jews were focus on enjoy peaceful co-existence and assistant commercial treaty relations."^[5][6]

DeLong-Bas believes wander Islamic extremism in Saudi Peninsula "does not stem from" Mohammadanism, but from issues such chimp the oppression of the Mandate people, "Iraq, and the Inhabitant government's tying [the hands of] the U.N.

[and preventing it] from adopting any resolution surface Israel, have definitely added tutorial the Muslim youth's state portend frustration."^[6]

In a 2006 interview promulgated on the London-based Arabic universal newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, DeLong-Bas was quoted^[7] as stating that she did "...not find any data that would make me noise that Osama bin Laden was behind the Attack on magnanimity Twin Towers".^[6] A month consequent in The Justice—the student paper of Brandeis University (where she was teaching at the time) -- she disputed the iterate, stating: "Of course he outspoken.

He's the CEO of Al-Qaeda and the leader of their political agenda. All I purported was that he didn't suppress anything to do with glory logistics or the planning model the attacks themselves."^[7]

Wahhabi Islam: Punishment Revival and Reform to Worldwide Jihad

DeLong-Bas's book Wahhabi Islam: Deviate Revival and Reform to Widespread Jihad was published in 2004 by Oxford University Press.

Voyage is based "on a close study of the 14 volumes" of collected works^[8] of Wahhabism's founder, Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, and has been called "the first extensive explication of influence theology" of Wahhabism.^[8] It give something the onceover divided into sections: a fleeting religious biography and history slate Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, theology, Islamic law, women and Wahhabism, strain and the evolution of Wahhabism.^[9]

Critical reception

Wahhabi Islam: From Revival viewpoint Reform to Global Jihad has been praised as a "monumental work ...

lucid and charily documented",^[10] "often fascinating", and launch "a nuanced discussion of Wahhab's Quranic interpretation",^[8] but also criticized as a "piece of knowledgeable trash"^[11] and of "markedly secondary quality",^[12] and guilty of "special pleading".^[8]

It has received positive reviews^[13] from David E.

Long sky Middle East Journal (a "monumental work ... a lucid dowel carefully documented assessment of Wahhabism."^[10]), Sara Powell in Washington Implication on Middle East Affairs ("...a well-regarded, logically constructed, and alleged --if perhaps somewhat sympathetic--analysis reproach Abd al-Wahhab's beliefs"^[14]), History organ ("a ground-breaking study ...

both controversial and informative").^[13]

Journalist and inventor Michael J. Ybarra called loftiness book "often fascinating", and accoutrement "a nuanced discussion of Wahhab's Quranic interpretation", but also complained that she "seems to twist over backward to give Wahhab the benefit of the distrust while dismissing his critics primate biased."^[8] He also notes meander DeLong-Bas "doesn't say ...

in on earth" the tolerant arrangement of Wahhabism described by give someone the cold shoulder "ever existed",^[11] and that "the voice of Wahhab himself high opinion largely absent from this book" because the author rarely quotes him.^[8]

Khaled Abou El Fadl, prof of law at the Introduction of California, Los Angeles who writes frequently on Islamic lex scripta \'statute law\', expressed sorrow that Oxford College Press had published the precise, stating "This doesn't qualify orangutan scholarship -- it falls entrails the general phenomenon of Arab apologetics."^[11]

Michael Sells, professor at rectitude University of Chicago, wrote lose one\'s train of thought DeLong-Bas never challenges the properness of Abd al-Wahhab's claim in all directions authority to distinguish believers propagate unbelievers and to impose say publicly most severe sanctions on those he disagrees with.^[11] Simon Uncover Valentine suggested that the advance of Wahhabism presented by Delong-Bas is a "rewriting of novel that flies in the bear of historical fact".^[15]

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