ISLA 355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sahabah, Tribalism

• School: McGill University
• Department: Islamic Studies
• Course: ISLA 355
• Professor: Malek Abisaab

Document Summary

After egypt"s navy was destroyed he wanted to compensate and go into syria. Trade routes: he was able to control more than one route. Geographically between the sultan (ottoman empire) and egypt. He said it would be easier to light wahhabis due to syria"s geographical location. Morean expedition ended and the sultan was going to go against him. Syria would be compensation and a buffer between him and the sultan should any. It was to turn egypt into a regional, commercial, military power. Sunni arabs in syria was a threat to wahhabism. * algar did not consider al wahhab an intellectual * He was not innovative and did not create any new theories or new signilicant contributions. Wahhabis burned books that were not quran or hadith, destroyed tombs of the. Sahaba that people prayed to, destroying shrines, destroying shi"ite social houses and mosques, anything that would distract people from praying to god.