Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia

Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia

Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia

Awakening Islam: The Politics of Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780674049642
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 04/15/2011
Pages: 384
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.30(h) x 1.00(d)
Language: French

About the Author

Stéphane Lacroix is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po, Paris.

Table of Contents

1 Islamism in a Fragmented Society 1

2 The Development of the Sahwa 37

3 Resistance to Sahwa Ascendancy 81

4 A Sacrificed Generation 122

5 The Logic of the Insurrection 151

6 Anatomy of a Failure 201

7 The Islamists after the Insurrection 238

Conclusion: The Lessons of the Insurrection 265

Glossary 273

Note on Sources and Transliterations 279

Notes 281

Acknowledgments 345

Index 347

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