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The book shows how West African ʿulamāʾ, who fled the Europeancolonization of their region to settle in Mecca and Medina, helped the regime of King Ibn Saʿūd at its beginnings in the field of teaching and spreading the Salafῑ-Wahhabῑ’s Islam both inside and outside Saudi Arabia. This is against the widespread idea of considering the spread of the Salafῑ-Wahhābῑ doctrine as being the work of ʿulamāʾ from Najd (Central Arabia) only. We learn here that the diffusion of this doctrine after 1926 was much more the work of ʿulamāʾ from other parts of the Muslim World who had already acquired this doctrine and spread it in their countries by teaching and publishing books related to it. In addition the book demonstrates that concerning Islamic reform and mission (daʿwa), Africans are not just consumers, but also thinkers and designers.The book brings a new perspective on the history of the spread of the Salafī-Wahhābī doctrine since the conquest of the Hijaz by Ibn Saʿūd in 1926. It also shows the contribution of a network of ʿulamā ͗ from West Africa, South Asia and Egypt in the spread of the Salafī-Wahhābī doctrine inside and outside Saudi Arabia since 1926."Voir le site de l’éditeur