Memoirs of Mr. Hempher, The British Spy to the Middle East
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Memoirs of Mr. Hempher, The British Spy to the Middle East
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Memoirs of Mr. Hempher, The British Spy to the Middle East or Confessions of a British Spy is a document purporting to be the account by an 18th-century British agent, Hempher, of his instrumental role in founding the conservative Islamic reform movement of Wahhabism, as part of a conspiracy to corrupt Islam. It first appeared in 1888, in Turkish, in the five-volume Mir'at al-Haramayn of Ayyub Sabri Pasha. It has been described as "apocryphal", a "forgery", "utter nonsense", and "an Anglophobic
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2008-05-04T07:59:22Z
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2024-09-09T14:46:05Z
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