Title: Not History
Product review: The poor quality of this book should be embarrassing to the author, who obviously succumbed to the agenda-driven bent of her professor, John Esposito.This book is not history; it's as though major, major aspects of Mohammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab's life are simply ignored, and the remaining material creatively re-framed in order to paint him in some kind of angelic terms. It's really shocking, and not only is it ridiculed by any critical scholar in the U.S., but it would be laughed at by most Arab Muslim readership in the Middle East. Only in Saudi Arabia would this book find praise and appreciation, and is more evidence of the political nature of Esposito and his progeny.My honest recommendation is that you ignore this book and seek out real scholarship on the history of the Wahhabi movement.
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