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).

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

• 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