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Western imaginings : the intellectual contest to define Wahhabism /
Wahhabism is often understood as a radical version of Islam responsible for inspiring and motivating Islamic terrorism. In contrast to the existing literature that treats Wahhabism as a historical phenomenon or a monolithic theological ideology, a literature often written by authors keen to promote...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cairo :
The American University in Cairo Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Machine generated contents note: Wahhabism: A Contested Category
- Role of Intellectuals
- Nature of the Political
- 1. Wahhabism as a Contested Category
- Intellectuals, Imagined Geographies, and Imagined Communities: Wahhabism as Threat
- Understanding Wahhabism through a Feminist Lens
- Saudi School Textbooks and the Problem of Translation
- Wahhabism Is Not So Bad After All
- 2. On Intellectuals, Prejudice, and Understanding the Social World
- On the Collective Identity and Attachment of Intellectuals
- Intellectuals and the Nation-State
- Making Sense of Truth
- 3. Dialectics, Ideal Types, Fuzzy Categories, and Analyzing Language
- Dialectics
- On Fuzziness and Ideal Types
- Metaphors, Analogies, Similes, Neologisms, and the Cognitive Structuring of Violent Accounts
- Critical Discourse Analysis: Language Is Made in and Makes the World
- 4. Spreading the Rule of Reason: Liberal Imaginings of Wahhabism
- Understanding Liberalism: Many Freedoms?
- Understanding Liberalism: Toward an Ideal Type
- Wahhabism Restricts Freedoms
- Wahhabism as Backward and an Obstacle to Progress
- Wahhabism Is a Threat to the Ideal Secular Society
- 5. Themata, Generative Metaphors, and Making Sense of Liberal Intellectuals' Representations of Wahhabism
- Themata
- Generative Metaphors
- Individualism, Progress: The Key Themata and Generative Metaphors Influencing Liberal Thinking
- 6. Those Evil and Violent Savages: The Neoconservative Assault on Wahhabism, Saudi Arabia, and the Palestinian Struggle for Self-Determination
- Introducing the Neoconservatives
- Toward an Ideal Type
- Wahhabi Is a Savage
- Unwavering Support for Israel: Wahhabism and Saudi Arabia as Enemies of the Jewish State
- Key Themata: The Holy Land and Welcoming the Savior
- Good versus Evil
- Animal Metaphors and the Noble Savage
- 7. Conclusion.