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Author Al-Rasheed, Madawi.

Title Contesting the Saudi state : Islamic voices from a new generation / Madawi Al-Rasheed.

Imprint Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  320.9538 A77c 2007    ---  Available
Description xxi, 308 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Series Cambridge Middle East studies ; 25
Cambridge Middle East studies ; 25.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-302) and indexes.
Contents Introduction: debating religion and politics in the twenty-first century -- Consenting subjects: official Wahhabi religio-political discourse -- Re-enchanting politics: Sahwis from contestation to co-optation -- Struggling in the way of God abroad: from localism to transnationalism -- Struggling in the way of God at home: the politics and poetics of jihad -- Debating Salafis: Lewis Atiyat Allah and the jihad obligation -- Searching for the unmediated word of God.
Subject Saudi Arabia -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Saudi Arabia -- Intellectual life -- 21st century.
Dissenters -- Saudi Arabia.
Political culture -- Saudi Arabia.
Islam and politics -- Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
ISBN 0521858364 (hbk.)
9780521858366 (hbk.)

 
    
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