Charles Allen - God's Terrorists

Propagation

Surat

Swat, tribes

Fanatics established in

uprising, map

Fanatics expelled

presence of Ahl-i-Hadith, see

also Ghaffur, Abdul, Akhund of Swat Swat, Padshah of

Swat, Wali of

Swat River

Swatis

uprising

Syad Ahmad Khan

Syed Ahmad, Shah

summary of his

theology and theocracy

declaration of jihad

call to arms, chosen

as imam and amir, declares

himself Padshah, death

disappearance and cult of

Hidden Imam

and golden age of

Islam, continuing influence

model for invasion of

India, reasons for success

Syed Emdad Ali Khan, Moulvee

Syed Muhammad Hussain

Syria

Syrians

Tablighi Jamiat (Preaching Party)

Tacitus

Tajiks

Talib Ali

Taliban

alliance with Bin Laden

overthrown, interpretation of

Islam

taliban-ul-ulm

Taqwin-ud-Deen (Rightness of Faith)

Tarbela Dam

Tariqa-i-Muhammadia (Path of Muhammad)

Taro Jaba

Tashkent

Tawarikh Kaisar Rum

Tawhid wal Jihad (Monotheism and Holy War)

Tayler, William

attempts to

clear his name

collection of curios

Taylor, Reynell

Thana Bawan

Thanesar

Thar desert

Theosophical Society

Tilwai

Tipu sultan

Tirah

Tirah Field Force

Tirhut

Titu Mir (Mir Nasir Ali)

Tod, Colonel James

Tonk, Nawab

of

Tora Bora

Trans-Jordan

Trotter, Mr Justice

Turangzai

Turkestan

Turkey

Turks

ulema,

Wahhabi

guiding

authority of, reformist

defied by Abdur Rahman

summoned to Kabul, in Saudi

Arabia, in Afghanistan

pathan

ul-Hasan, Maulana Mahmood

ul-Huq, Maulvi Waiz

umma

United States of America

invasion of Iraq

madrassahs, support

for House of Saud

Urdu

USS Cole

Utmanzais

Uyainah

Uyayna

Uzbeks

Vale of Peshawar

map

van der Meulen, Colonel

Vaughan, Major

Victoria and Albert Museum

Vienna, siege of

Wahba, Sheikh Hafiz

Wahhabis: the name, ghazu ulema

cult of martyrdom, warfare

ruthlessness, impose

identity on Arabia, plunder

holy places, desecration of

the Prophet’s tomb, alleged

British involvement with

pirates, defeated by

Egyptians, courage

subservience to pirs

‘Delhi-ites’

‘Patna-ites’

dress, recruits

and Sepoy Mutiny

British

move against, arrest and

trials of leaders

responsibility for

assassinations, British

perceptions of, womenfolk

commitments to missionary

work, see also Hindustani

Fanatics

Wahhabism: origins in Arabia

theological nature

bastions in India, characterised

by violence, as cult of

infallibility, evolves political

and racial dimensions, in Java

movement in India under

Syed Ahmad, view of

apostasy, fragmentation and

restructuring in India

denounced in India

extent in India, Ahl-i-Hadith

links with, term avoided by

British, Deobandi links with

stronghold in Riyadh

revival under Ibn Saud

institutionalised in Saudi Arabia

opposition to modern

developments, organisations

and institutions

influence on Afghanistan

Wake, Herewald Crauford

Waliullah, Shah

continuance of

his teachings

Ward, Mr

Wardak

Warden, Lieutenant Francis

Waris Ali

Waziris

Waziristan

Western civilisation

Wilayat Ali, Maulvi

and development of

Indian Wahhabism

death

visits Andaman islands

descendants

Wilde, Colonel Alfred

Woodcock, Mr

World Supreme Council for Mosques

Wright, Assistant Adjutant-General

Xinjiang

Yahya Ali, arrest

and trial, death

Yakub Khan

Yemen

Yusufzai, Rahimullah

Yusufzais

religious

subservience, and Wahhabis

under Syed Ahmad

lashkars , plain

Zaidulla Khan

Zain-ul-Abdin, Maulvi

Zia-ul Haq, General Muhammad

Zureef, Mullik

Plain Tales from the Raj

Tales from the Dark Continent

Tales from the South China Seas

Raj Scrapbook

The Savage Wars of Peace

Thunder and Lightning

Lives of the Indian Princes

A Soldier of the Company

A Glimpse of the Burning Plain

Kipling’s Kingdom

A Mountain in Tibet

The Search for Shangri-La

The Buddha and the Sahibs

Soldier Sahibs

Duel in the Snows

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