Ikhwān, Saudi Arabia - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Ikhwān, Saudi Arabia - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Commins, David

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062256
Doc. NO	:	ALei2653
Main Entry	:	Commins, David
Title & Author	:	Ikhwān, Saudi Arabia - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Commins, David
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(783 words)
Abstract	:	The Ikhwān were Arab tribesmen from the territory of Najd who abandoned nomadic life to settle in agricultural colonies in the early twentieth century and who embraced the Wahhābī doctrine, thereby playing a significant role in the rise of modern Saudi Arabia . They considered the shift from nomadic to sedentary life as a migration from unbelief to belief, hence a settlement was called a hijra (pl. hujar ), or place of emigration, an allusion to the prophet Muḥammad’s emigration from Mecca to Medina in 622 C.E. The Ikhwān contributed
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei2653.pdf