Awakening Islam : The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia / Stephane Lacroix, George Holoch.
Lacroix, Stephane, author.; Holoch, George, author.
2011
DS244.63 .L345 2011eb
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Title Awakening Islam : The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia / Stephane Lacroix, George Holoch.
Author Lacroix, Stephane, author.
ISBN 9780674061071
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674061071
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2011]
Copyright ©2011
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 1 map
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674061071 doi
Call Number DS244.63 .L345 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.5/5709538
Summary Amidst the roil of war and instability across the Middle East, the West is still searching for ways to understand the Islamic world. Stéphane 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, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries, 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 constitutional monarchy through peaceful activism, and the neo-jihadis, supporters of bin Laden's violent campaign.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.
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Frontmatter
Contents
1. Islamism in a Fragmented Society
2. The Development of the Sahwa
3. Resistance to Sahwa Ascendancy
4. A Sacrificed Generation
5. The Logic of the Insurrection
6. Anatomy of a Failure
7. The Islamists after the Insurrection
Conclusion
Glossary. Note on Sources and Transliterations. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index
Glossary
Note on Sources and Transliterations
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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