Muted Modernists: The Struggle Over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia

by Madawi AlRasheed   and Madawi Al-Rasheed

Book Overview

Analysis of both official and opposition Saudi divine politics is often monolithic, conjuring images of conservatism, radicalism, misogyny and resistance to democracy. Madawi Al-Rasheed challenges this stereotype as she examines a long tradition of engaging with modernism that gathered momentum with the Arab uprisings and incurred the wrath of both the regime and its Wahhabi supporters. With this nascent modernism, constructions of new divine politics,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190496029
• ISBN13: 9780190496029
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.6"