Charles Allen - God's Terrorists

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11 September 2001

aal as-Sheikh (Family of the Sheikh)

Aal-Shaikh, Sheikh Muhammad bin Ibrahim

Abbott, James

Abdali, Ahmad Shah

Abdul Aziz, Shah

Abdul Hai, Shah

Abdul Hamid, Sultan

Abdul Haq

Abdul Haq, Maulana

Abdul Rahman

Abdullah (Patha assassin)

Abdullah Ali, Amir

death, descendants

Abdullah, Caliph

Abdullah, Prince

Abdur Rahman, Amir

ad Dawa lil Tawhid (Call to Unity)

Ad-Dajjal

Aden

Adye, Colonel John

Afghan Colony

Afghanistan

Russian (Soviet) involvement

mujahedeen

frontier area

British invasion,

Afghan War

Second Afghan War

nation-state created

neutrality ended

Third Afghan War, ulema,

site of jihad

Wahhabi

involvement, madrassahs

rise of Taliban

Afghans, radicalised

Afridis, Akahel

Agra

Ahl al-Kitab

Ahl-i-Hadith

Ahmad, Muhammad

Ahmad, Nizamuddin

Ahmadullah, Maulvi

becomes Wahhabi

leader, avoids arrest

arrest and trial, death

Ahmadzais

Akbar, Emperor

Akbari Ali

Akora Khattack

Al Mujaheed (The Holy Warrior)

Aleppo

Alexander the Great

Alexander, Mr

Algeria

Ali brothers, see Inayat

Ali; Wilayat Ali Ali Masjid

Ali Pasha

Ali, Caliph

Aligarh

Al-Ikhwan (The Brotherhood), extreme form of Wahhabism

Allahabad

Allen, George

Allenby, Lord

All-India Muslim League

al-Maqdisi, Sheikh Muhammad

al-Mukhtar, Hashiya radd

Al-Muwahhidun (Unitarians)

Al-Qaeda

al-Qahtani, Muhammad

al-Qayyim al-Jawziyah

al-Salaf al-Salih

al-Utabi, Juhaiman

al-Wahhab, Muhammad ibn Abd, and

ibn Saud family

resigns as imam, descendants, continuance of

his teachings

history of, Deobandi

view of, theology presented as

Protestantism, Taliban

conform to teachings

al-Wahhab, Sulayman ibn Abd

al-Zarqawi, Abu Musab

al-Zawahri, Ayman

Amanullah Ali

Amanullah, Amir

Amazais

Amb, Khan of

Amballa, and Wahhabi trials

Ambeyla Campaign

Ambeyla Pass

Eagle’s Nest, Crag

Picquet

Amir Khan, Nawab

Amir-ul-Momineen

Amritsar, Massacre

Andaman Islands

Aneiza tribe

Ansar-i-Islam, approvers

Arab League

Arab Revolt

Arabia

appearance of Al-Ikhwan, Syed

Ahmed’s followers arrive, map

spiritual conquest, divisions

within, assumes Arab identity

Muhammad Ishaq’s exile in