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Contesting the Saudi state : Islamic voices from a new generation /

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, printi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Al-Rasheed, Madawi
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2007.
Series:Cambridge Middle East studies ; 25.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.