Petro-Islam

Petro-Islam usually refers to the extremist and fundamentalist interpretation of Sunni Islam , sometimes called " Wahhabism ," favored by the conservative oil-exporting Kingdom of Saudi Arabia . 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 religious scholar Imtiyaz Ahmed, and Egyptian philosopher Fouad Zakariyya , among others. Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam . Well before the full emergence of Islamism in the 1970s, a growing constituency nicknamed `petro-Islam` included Wahhabi ulemas and Islamist intellectuals and promoted strict implementation of the sharia in the political, moral and cultural spheres; this proto-movement had few social concerns and even fewer revolutionary ones. Lastly, the Saudis spent tens of billions of dollars throughout the world to pump Wahhabism or petro-Islam, a particularly virulent and militant version of supremacist Islamism. The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom . New York Times . before Petro-Islam and the Wahhabis blew in with new money and a new interpretation of the faith. The madrassas had not yet played havoc with the educational system. [quoting Fouad Zakariyya ("a secular democratic thinker")]`A specific type of Islam has been gathering momentum of late, and the appropriate name that applies to it is `Petro-Islam.` The first and last goal of `Petro-Islam` has been to protect the petroleum wealth or, more correctly, the types of social relations underlying those [tribal] societies that possess the lion's share of this wealth. It is common knowledge that the principle of the `few dominating the largest portion of this wealth` permeates the social structure [of the Gulf region]. ... these petro-Islamites are exploiting the religious sensitivities of the masses for the purpose of `spreading a unique brand of Islam never seen before in history; the Islam of the veil, beard, and the Jilbab; the Islam that permits the stoppage of work during prayers' time, and prohibits women from driving automobiles.`

International propagation of Salafism and Wahhabism funded by oil-producing Arab countries Ibn Saud , the first king of Saudi Arabia 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. In Saat, Norshahril (ed.). Islam in Southeast Asia: Negotiating Modernity . In Cusack, Carole M. ; Upal, M. Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements . Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought . The Oxford Dictionary of Islam . "The Failure of the Wahhabi Campaign: Transnational Islam and the Salafi madrasa in post-9/11 Indonesia". Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam . Well before the full emergence of Islamism in the 1970s, a growing constituency nicknamed `petro-Islam` included Wahhabi ulemas and Islamist intellectuals and promoted strict implementation of the sharia in the political, moral and cultural spheres; this proto-movement had few social concerns and even fewer revolutionary ones. Lastly, the Saudis spent tens of billions of dollars throughout the world to pump Wahhabism or petro-Islam, a particularly virulent and militant version of supremacist Islamism. The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom . New York Times . before Petro-Islam and the Wahhabis blew in with new money and a new interpretation of the faith. The madrassas had not yet played havoc with the educational system. [quoting Fouad Zakariyya ("a secular democratic thinker")]`A specific type of Islam has been gathering momentum of late, and the appropriate name that applies to it is `Petro-Islam.` The first and last goal of `Petro-Islam` has been to protect the petroleum wealth or, more correctly, the types of social relations underlying those [tribal] societies that possess the lion's share of this wealth. It is common knowledge that the principle of the `few dominating the largest portion of this wealth` permeates the social structure [of the Gulf region]. ... these petro-Islamites are exploiting the religious sensitivities of the masses for the purpose of `spreading a unique brand of Islam never seen before in history; the Islam of the veil, beard, and the Jilbab; the Islam that permits the stoppage of work during prayers' time, and prohibits women from driving automobiles.`

International propagation of Salafism and Wahhabism funded by oil-producing Arab countries Ibn Saud , the first king of Saudi Arabia 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. In Saat, Norshahril (ed.). Islam in Southeast Asia: Negotiating Modernity . In Cusack, Carole M. ; Upal, M. Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements . Encyclopaedia of Islam (2nd ed.). The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought . The Oxford Dictionary of Islam . "The Failure of the Wahhabi Campaign: Transnational Islam and the Salafi madrasa in post-9/11 Indonesia". Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam . Well before the full emergence of Islamism in the 1970s, a growing constituency nicknamed `petro-Islam` included Wahhabi ulemas and Islamist intellectuals and promoted strict implementation of the sharia in the political, moral and cultural spheres; this proto-movement had few social concerns and even fewer revolutionary ones. Lastly, the Saudis spent tens of billions of dollars throughout the world to pump Wahhabism or petro-Islam, a particularly virulent and militant version of supremacist Islamism. The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom . New York Times . before Petro-Islam and the Wahhabis blew in with new money and a new interpretation of the faith. The madrassas had not yet played havoc with the educational system. [quoting Fouad Zakariyya ("a secular democratic thinker")]`A specific type of Islam has been gathering momentum of late, and the appropriate name that applies to it is `Petro-Islam.` The first and last goal of `Petro-Islam` has been to protect the petroleum wealth or, more correctly, the types of social relations underlying those [tribal] societies that possess the lion's share of this wealth. It is common knowledge that the principle of the `few dominating the largest portion of this wealth` permeates the social structure [of the Gulf region]. ... these petro-Islamites are exploiting the religious sensitivities of the masses for the purpose of `spreading a unique brand of Islam never seen before in history; the Islam of the veil, beard, and the Jilbab; the Islam that permits the stoppage of work during prayers' time, and prohibits women from driving automobiles.`