Prophecy as weapon, scripture as battlefield: A review of Safar al-Hawali’s The Day of Wrath
In the turbulent landscape of contemporary politics in Muslim world, few texts present as audacious and theologically peculiar a synthesis as “The Day of Wrath: Is the Intifadha of Rajab Only the Beginning?” by Safar ibn ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Hawali. First published in Arabic in 2000 and subsequently disseminated in English translation in 2002, the treatise […]
