The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia. By David Commins. pp. xii, 246. London, I.B. Tauris, 2006.
@article{Robinson2006TheWM, title={The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia. By David Commins. pp. xii, 246. London, I.B. Tauris, 2006.}, author={Francis Robinson}, journal={Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society}, year={2006}, volume={16}, pages={320 - 322} }
both natural (p. 136). Awareness of a “creative/active principle”, a “subtle inner resolve” (pp. 133, 136, 143) is real, irrespectively of its sometimes perverse uses (e.g. opportunistic missionaries in Cambodia: pp. 105–107). This book is tastefully presented, well written (if lengthy on the gospels’ contradictions), and one forgives the occasional unusual spelling; BC for AD on p. 111; “Pharisees” for “Sadducees” at p. 23; and the reversal of captions for illustrations 11 and 12. The glossary…