The Call, Krithika Varagur
The Call, Krithika Varagur
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The Call
Inside the Global Saudi Religious Project

Author: Krithika Varagur

Narrator: Priya Ayyar

Unabridged: 6 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/21/2020

Synopsis

Journalist Krithika Varagur's Da'wa chronicles the House of Saud as it systematically transforms the Muslim world in its own image, in one of the major imperial projects in today's world, on par with China's economic diplomacy. Since 1979, Saudi Arabia has spent $1.8 billion per year, by one estimate, to propagate its puritanical brand of Islam, called Salafism or Wahhabism. It has kept scrupulous records of its religious activity in 27 countries, with over 4,000 Salafi preachers on its payroll worldwide. This is the cumulative scope of the Saudi campaign on three separate continents, told through the trial of a Christian governor in Indonesia; the emergence of Wahhabi influence in the Republic of Kosovo; and the death sentence of a Sufi priest in Nigeria.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jurij

Chapters: Chapter 1: The Call Chapter 2: Oil Money in the Archipelago Chapter 3: The Intolerance Factory Chapter 4: Nigeria’s Salafi Ouroboros Chapter 5: The Thousand-Day Protest Chapter 6: Rebuilding Kosovo Chapter 7: Rebel Imams Chapter 8: Many Calls My final opinion on the book I like it. I usually review......more

Goodreads review by David

How Saudi monarchs and their henchmen used petrodollars to pump their poisonous ideas into the cultural bloodstreams, and ultimately into the politics of Indonesia, Nigeria and Kosovo is this book’s story. It is well-told, in journalistic prose of the kind seen in The New Yorker, with sharp, brief p......more

Goodreads review by Sarmat

Another amazing Columbia Global Reports entry, the Call takes a deeper look at the Saudi “dawah” network And how its soft power influence vis a vis Islamic proselytizing has enabled it to create a network and indeed, a generation of Islamic scholars of the Salafi - Wahabi madhabs to influence Islami......more

Goodreads review by Scott

‘Follow the money’ is not only the most famous phrase in investigative journalism, it is a time-tested approach to uncovering and understanding the facts behind complex issues in business and politics. During my brief journalism career, I took part in one investigation and while the subject wasn’t p......more

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