A printing press can rehabilitate a marginal sect and export its texts worldwide.
Evidence
Rida believed that the decline of Muslims was a result of the stagnation caused by the excesses of Sufism; which had distorted the pristine message of Islam. As a leading figure of the Salafiyya movement, Rida launched his project of re-habilitating Wahhabism and would popularise Najdi scholarly treatises across the Muslim World through his Al-Manar printing press. — Wikipedia contributors, Wahhabism, 193
Categorization
- SEED: Angle: print technology as the multiplier of religious movements — Al-Manar as the analogue of the pamphlet press that carried the Reformation.
- XREF: Connects to the Library/print material on how print ended manuscript-era reader autonomy and standardized texts into movements.