Natana J. DeLong-Bas

Natana J. DeLong-Bas is an American academic, scholar of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, and author of a number of academic publications on Islam on the subjects of Saudi Arabia and Wahhabism, Islamic thought and history, Islam and politics, and contemporary jihadism.

Biography DeLong-Bas is associate professor at the Theology Department Faculty of Boston College. She also serves in a number of editorial, advisory, and consulting roles.

DeLong-Bas believes that Islamic extremism in Saudi Arabia "does not stem from" Islam, but from issues such as the oppression of the Palestinian people, "Iraq, and the American government's tying [the hands of] the U.N. [and preventing it] from adopting any resolution against Israel, have definitely added to the Muslim youth's state of frustration." as stating that she did "...not find any evidence that would make me agree that Osama bin Laden was behind the Attack on the Twin Towers". It is divided into sections: a brief religious biography and history of Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, theology, Islamic law, women and Wahhabism, jihad and the evolution of Wahhabism.

Critical reception Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad has been praised as a "monumental work ... lucid and carefully documented", "often fascinating", and presenting "a nuanced discussion of Wahhab's Quranic interpretation", and guilty of "special pleading". from David E. Long in Middle East Journal (a "monumental work ... a lucid and carefully documented assessment of Wahhabism." ), History magazine ("a ground-breaking study ... both controversial and informative"). and that "the voice of Wahhab himself is largely absent from this book" because the author rarely quotes him.