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Item Details
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AWAKENING ISLAM
THE POLITICS OF RELIGIOUS DISSENT IN CONTEMPORARY SAUDI ARABIA |
| By: |
Stephane Lecroix, George Holoch (Trans) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£27.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0674061071 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674061071 |
| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
14 September, 2011 |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
With unprecedented access to a closed culture, Lacroix offers an account of Islamism in Saudi Arabia. Tracing the last half-century of the Sahwa, or "Islamic Awakening," he explains the brand of Islam that gave birth to Osama bin Laden--one that has been exported, and dangerously misunderstood, around the world. |
| Synopsis: |
Amidst the roil of war and instability across the Middle East, the West is still searching for ways to understand the Islamic world. Stephane 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, 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 state through constitutional change, and the neo-jihadis, supporters of bin Laden, who promulgate violent overthrow. 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. |
| Reader Age: |
College Graduate Student |
| Illustrations: |
1 map |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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