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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

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[Book Review] Michael Farquhar, Circuits of Faith: Migration, Education, and the Wahhabi Mission (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2017) by Micah Hughes

By Micah A. Hughes  //  June 14, 2017June 14, 2017

On October 19, 2016, Mohammad Alyahya, a political analyst focusing on the Gulf region, published an opinion piece in the New York Times exhorting his readers to resist the hasty association of Wahhabism with terrorism….

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