The Mecca Uprising An Insider’s Account of Salafism and Insurrection in Saudi Arabia

Nasir al-Huzaimi, "The Mecca Uprising: An Insider’s Account of Salafism and Insurrection in Saudi Arabia"
English | ISBN: 075560010X | 2020 | 208 pages | EPUB | 941 KB
On 20th November 1979, the Salafi Group, led by a charismatic figure named Juhaiman al-Utaibi, seized control of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the holiest site in the Muslim World. The Salafi Group was not trying to establish an Islamic state. Instead, its members believed they were players in a prophetic script about the End of Time. After a two-week siege, the Saudi government recaptured the mosque, threw the survivors into prison, and had them publicly executed.