Temptation of Graves in Salafi Islam

Ondřej Beránek is Director of the Oriental Institute at the Czech Academy of Sciences. He is editor of Arab Revolutions: Democratic Challenges, Political Islam (Academia, 2013) and co-author (with Pavel Tupek) of The Two Faces of Islamic Charity (CDK, 2008). Both publications are in Czech. Pavel Ťupek is a Researcher and Assistant Professor in the Department of Near Eastern and African Studies at Charles University, Prague. He is author of Salafi Islam (Academia, 2015) (in Czech).

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 – Graves and Shrines in Medieval Islam: From Pre-Islamic Times to Ibn Taymiyya’s LegacyChapter 2 – Early Wahhabism and the Beginnings of Modern SalafismChapter 3 – Saudi Arabia between Pan-Islamism, Iconoclasm and Political LegitimacyChapter 4 – Following Current Paths of Destruction: ISIS and BeyondConclusionBibliographyIndex

One of the most engaging of works on Salafism in recent times.