Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Voices from a New Generation: 25 (Cambridge Middle East Studies, Series Number 25)

Madawi al-Rasheed

ISBN 10: 0521858364 / ISBN 13: 9780521858366

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 2006

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Contesting the Saudi State: Islamic Voices from a New Generation: 25 (Cambridge Middle East Studies, Series Number 25)
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date de parution: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0521858364
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521858366
• Reliure: hardcover
• État de l'article: Good

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Synopsis

The terms Wahhabi or Salafi are seen as interchangeable and frequently misunderstood by outsiders. However, as Madawi al-Rasheed explains in a fascinating exploration of Saudi Arabia in the twenty-first century, even Saudis do not agree on their meaning. Under the influence of mass education, printing, new communication technology, and global media, they are forming their own conclusions and debating religion and politics in traditional and novel venues, often violating official taboos and the conservative values of the Saudi society. Drawing on classical religious sources, contemporary readings and interviews, Al-Rasheed presents an ethnography of consent and contest, exploring the fluidity of the boundaries between the religious and political. Bridging the gap between text and context, the author also examines how states and citizens manipulate religious discourse for purely political ends, and how this manipulation generates unpredictable reactions whose control escapes those who initiated them.

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Madawi Al-Rasheed is Professor of Social Anthropology at King's College, University of London. Her publications include Politics in an Arabian Oasis (1991); A History of Saudi Arabia (2002); (with R. Vitalis) Counter Narratives: History, Contemporary Politics, and Society in Saudi Arabia and Yemen (2004); and Transnational Connections and the Arab Gulf (2005).