Parvez Sharma
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Parvez Sharma is a New York-based Indian filmmaker, author, and journalist. He is a recipient of the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship in the film/video category. He was amongst the 173 fellows selected from
Sharma at a showing of A Jihad for Love in Washington, D.C., on 7 September 2008
Wahhabism
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Wahhabism is a Salafi revivalist movement within Sunni Islam named after the 18th-century Hanbali scholar Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab. It was initially established in the central Arabian region of Najd
Parvez Sharma
…death threats throughout the Arab world." In the book Sharma sharply veers away from the subject of the film of the same name and instead focuses on Wahhabi Islam, Daesh, Saudi Arabia, the Indian sub-continent and more. Sharma has called the book as the final product of his "Islam Trilogy" in various…
Islamic miniature depicting Ahmad ibn Hanbal
Portrait of a musketeer from the First Saudi State (Emirate of Diriyah).
Salafi scholar Muhammad Rashid Rida (Arabic: محمد رشيد رضا; AH 1282–1354) made vital contributions in the rehabilitation of Wahhabism across the Arab World during the early 20th-century
Photo of a marketplace in the town of Al-Hasa c. 1922