Religion And Politics In Saudi Arabia

Author : Madawi Al-Rasheed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190496029

Get Book

Muted Modernists by Madawi Al-Rasheed Pdf

Analysis of both official and opposition Saudi divine politics is often monolithic, conjuring images of conservatism, radicalism, misogyny and resistance to democracy. Madawi Al-Rasheed challenges this stereotype as she examines a long tradition of engaging with modernism that gathered momentum with the Arab uprisings and incurred the wrath of both the regime and its Wahhabi supporters. With this nascent modernism, constructions of new divine politics, anchored in a rigorous reinterpretation of foundational Islamic texts and civil society activism are emerging in a context where authoritarian rule prefers its advocates to remain muted. The author challenges scholarly wisdom on Islamism in general and blurs the boundaries between secular and religious politics.

Author : Bernard Haykel,Thomas Hegghammer,Stéphane Lacroix
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107006294

Get Book

Saudi Arabia in Transition by Bernard Haykel,Thomas Hegghammer,Stéphane Lacroix Pdf

"Making sense of Saudi Arabia is crucially important today. The kingdom's western province contains the heart of Islam, and it is the United States' closest Arab ally and the largest producer of oil in the world. However, the country is undergoing rapid change: its aged leadership is ceding power to a new generation, and its society, dominated by young people, is restive. Saudi Arabia has long remained closed to foreign scholars, with a select few academics allowed into the kingdom over the past decade. This book presents the fruits of their research as well as those of the most prominent Saudi academics in the field. This volume focuses on different sectors of Saudi society and examines how the changes of the past few decades have affected each. It reflects new insights and provides the most up-to-date research on the country's social, cultural, economic and political dynamics"--

Author : Ḥagai Erlikh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X030112157

Get Book

Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia by Ḥagai Erlikh Pdf

What is the significance of Islam's growing strength in Ethiopia? And what is the impetus for the Saudi financing of hundreds of new mosques and schools in the country, the establishment of welfare organizations, and the spread of the Arabic language? Haggai Erlich explores the interplay of religion and international politics as it has shaped the development of modern Ethiopia and Saudi Arabia. Tracing Saudi-Ethiopian relations from the 1930s to the present, Erlich highlights the nexus of concrete politics and the conceptual messages of religion. His fresh approach encompasses discussions of the options and dilemmas facing Ethiopians, both Christians and Muslims, across multiple decades; the Saudis' nuanced conceptualization of their Islamic self in contrast to Christian and Islamic others; and the present confrontation between Ethiopia's apolitical Islam and Wahhabi fundamentalism. It also provides new perspectives on both the current dilemmas of the Wahhabi kingdom and the global implications of the evolving Saudi-Ethiopian relationship.

Author : Ayman Al-Yassini
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Islam and state
ISBN : UCAL:B4956568

Get Book

Religion and State in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia by Ayman Al-Yassini Pdf

Author : Robert D. Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429974397

Get Book

Religion and Politics in the Middle East by Robert D. Lee Pdf

This innovative book analyses the relationship between religion and politics in the Middle East through a comparative study of five countries: Egypt, Israel, Turkey, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. Robert D. Lee examines each country in terms of four domains in which state and religion necessarily interact: national identity, ideology, institutions, and political culture. In each domain he considers contradictory hypotheses, some of them asserting that religion is a positive force for political development and others identifying it as an obstacle. Among the questions the book confronts: Is secularization a necessary prerequisite for democratic development? How is it and why is it that religion and politics are so deeply entangled in these five countries? And, why is it that all five countries differ so markedly in the way they identify themselves and use religion for political purposes? The book argues that the nature of religious organization and practice in the Middle East must be understood in the context of individual nation states. The second edition is updated throughout and includes an entirely new chapter discussing the political and religious climate in Saudi Arabia. Earlier introductory analysis has been condensed to make room for new material, and chronologies at the end of each chapter have been added to help students understand the broader context. The second edition of Religion and Politics in the Middle East is a robust addition to courses on the Middle East.

Author : Madawi Al-Rasheed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139619004

Get Book

A Most Masculine State by Madawi Al-Rasheed Pdf

Women in Saudi Arabia are often described as either victims of patriarchal religion and society or successful survivors of discrimination imposed on them by others. Madawi Al-Rasheed's new book goes beyond these conventional tropes to probe the historical, political and religious forces that have, across the years, delayed and thwarted their emancipation. The book demonstrates how, under the patronage of the state and its religious nationalism, women have become hostage to contradictory political projects that on the one hand demand female piety, and on the other hand encourage modernity. Drawing on state documents, media sources and interviews with women from across Saudi society, the book examines the intersection between gender, religion and politics to explain these contradictions and to show that, despite these restraints, vibrant debates on the question of women are opening up as the struggle for recognition and equality finally gets under way.

Author : Stéphane Lacroix
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674265257

Get Book

Awakening Islam by Stéphane Lacroix Pdf

Amidst the roil of war and instability across the Middle East, the West is still searching for ways to understand the Islamic world. Stéphane Lacroix has now given us a penetrating look at the political dynamics of Saudi Arabia, one of the most opaque of Muslim countries and the place that gave birth to Osama bin Laden. The result is a history that has never been told before. Lacroix shows how thousands of Islamist militants from Egypt, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries, starting in the 1950s, escaped persecution and found refuge in Saudi Arabia, where they were integrated into the core of key state institutions and society. The transformative result was the Sahwa, or “Islamic Awakening,” an indigenous social movement that blended political activism with local religious ideas. Awakening Islam offers a pioneering analysis of how the movement became an essential element of Saudi society, and why, in the late 1980s, it turned against the very state that had nurtured it. Though the “Sahwa Insurrection” failed, it has bequeathed the world two very different, and very determined, heirs: the Islamo-liberals, who seek an Islamic constitutional monarchy through peaceful activism, and the neo-jihadis, supporters of bin Laden's violent campaign. Awakening Islam is built upon seldom-seen documents in Arabic, numerous travels through the country, and interviews with an unprecedented number of Saudi Islamists across the ranks of today’s movement. The result affords unique insight into a closed culture and its potent brand of Islam, which has been exported across the world and which remains dangerously misunderstood.

Author : Mohammed Ayoob,Hasan Kosebalaban
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Islam and politics
ISBN : UCSC:32106019875027

Get Book

Religion and Politics in Saudi Arabia by Mohammed Ayoob,Hasan Kosebalaban Pdf

What is Wahhabism? What is its relationship with the Saudi state? Does it play a part in Islamist terrorist threats? These are among the complex questions tackled in Religion and Politics in Saudi Arabia. Moving from the historical, social, and political contexts in which Wahhabism originated and flourished to its current internal divisions and its impact on Saudi-US relations, the authors offer thought-provoking, cutting-edge research that helps to unravel the mystery that has long surrounded the subject.

Author : Madawi Al-Rasheed
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Islamic fundamentalism
ISBN : 1850659311

Get Book

Kingdom Without Borders by Madawi Al-Rasheed Pdf

An exploration of Saudi Arabia's growing regional and international power. Combining top-down and grass-roots analysis, the contributors interrogate the reality and impact of Saudi transnational connections on local politics, religious affiliation and media genres.

Author : Afshin Shahi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134653263

Get Book

The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia by Afshin Shahi Pdf

Exploring the management of ‘truth’ in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, this book aims to investigate the ways in which the official ‘truth’ is constructed and institutionalised in the country. The Politics of Truth Management in Saudi Arabia argues that there are two interrelated notions which articulate the ways in which ‘truth’ is conceptualised in Islam. One, at macro level, constitutes the trans-historical foundational principles of the religion, a set of engrained beliefs, which establish the ‘finality’, and ‘oneness’ of Islam in relation to other competing narratives. The other, at a micro level, takes place internally to find ‘truth’ within the ‘truth’. Unlike Islamic truth at the macro level, which is entrenched, the Islamic truth at the micro level refers to the various attempts by different agencies to claim to have found the ‘truth’ within the ‘truth’. Wahhabism, which is the product of an eighteenth century revivalist movement, is portrayed as the most ‘authentic’ reading of Islam. It is seen as the raison d'être for the prevailing political mechanism in the country and is introduced as an example of truth management at the micro level. Arguing that truth is not born in a power vacuum and often its construction and institutionalisation signify domination in one way or another, this book will be of interest to students of Religion, Politics, and Saudi Politics more specifically.

Author : Karen Elliott House
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Islam and state
ISBN : 9780307272164

Get Book

On Saudi Arabia by Karen Elliott House Pdf

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, former foreign editor, correspondent, and publisher of "The Wall Street Journal"--a uniquely informed, authoritative, and illuminating look at Saudi Arabia today.

Author : Nabil Mouline
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300206616

Get Book

The Clerics of Islam by Nabil Mouline Pdf

Followers of Muhammad b. ’Abd al-Wahhab, often considered to be Islam’s Martin Luther, shaped the political and religious identity of the Saudi state while also enabling the significant worldwide expansion of Salafist Islam. Studies of the movement he inspired, however, have often been limited by scholars’ insufficient access to key sources within Saudi Arabia. Nabil Mouline was granted rare interviews and admittance to important Saudi archives in preparation for this groundbreaking book, the first in-depth study of the Wahhabi religious movement from its founding to the modern day. Gleaning information from both written and oral sources and employing a multidisciplinary approach that combines history, sociology, and Islamic studies, Mouline presents a new reading of this movement that transcends the usual resort to polemics.

Author : Nabil Mouline
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300178906

Get Book

The Clerics of Islam by Nabil Mouline Pdf

Followers of Muhammad b. ’Abd al-Wahhab, often considered to be Islam’s Martin Luther, shaped the political and religious identity of the Saudi state while also enabling the significant worldwide expansion of Salafist Islam. Studies of the movement he inspired, however, have often been limited by scholars’ insufficient access to key sources within Saudi Arabia. Nabil Mouline was granted rare interviews and admittance to important Saudi archives in preparation for this groundbreaking book, the first in-depth study of the Wahhabi religious movement from its founding to the modern day. Gleaning information from both written and oral sources and employing a multidisciplinary approach that combines history, sociology, and Islamic studies, Mouline presents a new reading of this movement that transcends the usual resort to polemics.

Author : Mansoor Jassem Alshamsi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134126538

Get Book

Islam and Political Reform in Saudi Arabia by Mansoor Jassem Alshamsi Pdf

This book examines the link between Islamic thought/jurisprudence on the one hand and political action on the other. It shows how reformism is deeply rooted in Islamic tradition and how Sunni scholars have become activists for change in Saudi Arabia.

Author : Madawi Al-Rasheed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0231700687

Get Book

Kingdom Without Borders by Madawi Al-Rasheed Pdf

Kingdom Without Borders is the first book to explore the driving forces behind Saudi Arabia's new era of expansionism. Having established a far-reaching political and religious influence, as well as an impressive media empire, Saudi Arabia has become a kingdom without borders, holding both local and international actors in a tight embrace. This phenomenon has yet to be seriously-instead of sensationally-studied. In this volume, contributors soberly reassess the changing nature of state and society, considering not only the multiple leaders who have risen within Saudi Arabia in recent years but also, thanks to a second oil boom, the consolidation of outside forces that now threaten to subvert the state. Bringing together leading scholars from Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and Asia, Kingdom Without Borders combines both a top-down and grassroots approach to examining the country's growing regional and international influence. Contributors also trace the impact of Saudi Arabia on the religion, economics, and politics of Yemen, Lebanon, and the United States, linking the transformation of local contexts to the external actors of globalization. With a thorough investigation of the history and contemporary manifestations of Saudi expansionism, Kingdom Without Borders presents a unique opportunity to view Saudi Arabia's power project within the interrelated realms of local politics, religion, and media genres.