Mecca Uprising
Mecca Uprising On 20th November 1979, the Salafi Group, led by a charismatic figure named Juhaiman al-Utaibi, seized control of the Scared Mosque in Mecca, the holiest site in the Muslim World.…
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Mecca Uprising
On 20th November 1979, the Salafi Group, led by a charismatic figure named Juhaiman al-Utaibi, seized control of the Scared Mosque in Mecca, the holiest site in the Muslim World. Instead, its members believed they were players in a prophetic script about the End of Time. The Salafi Group was not trying to establish an Islamic state.
Huzaimi did not participate in the uprising, but he was arrested in a government sweep of Salafi Group members and spent six years in prison. After a two-week siege, the Saudi government recaptured the mosque, threw the survivors into prison, and had them publicly executed.The Mecca Uprising offers an insider's account of the religious subculture that incubated the Mecca Uprising, written by a former member of the Salafi Group, Nasir al-Huzaimi. In 2011, he published his memoir, Days with Juhaiman, offering the most detailed picture