Petro-Islam

Petro-Islam usually refers to the extremist and fundamentalist interpretation of Sunni Islam, sometimes called "Wahhabism," currently supported by the oil-exporting country Qatar, though previously by Saudi Arabia for a long period of time. Its name derives from source of the funding, petroleum exports, that spread it through the Muslim world after the Yom Kippur War. The term is sometimes called "pejorative" or a "nickname."According to Sandra Mackey the term was coined by Fouad Ajami. It has been used by French political scientist Gilles Kepel, Bangladeshi religious scholar Imtiyaz Ahmed, and Egyptian philosopher Fouad Zakariyya, among others.

Petro-Islam

Petro-Islam usually refers to the extremist and fundamentalist interpretation of Sunni Islam, sometimes called "Wahhabism," currently supported by the oil-exporting country Qatar, though previously by Saudi Arabia for a long period of time. Its name derives from source of the funding, petroleum exports, that spread it through the Muslim world after the Yom Kippur War. The term is sometimes called "pejorative" or a "nickname."According to Sandra Mackey the term was coined by Fouad Ajami. It has been used by French political scientist Gilles Kepel, Bangladeshi religious scholar Imtiyaz Ahmed, and Egyptian philosopher Fouad Zakariyya, among others.