The clerics of Islam religious authority and political power in Saudi Arabia
"Followers of Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Wahhab, often considered to be Islam's Martin Luther, shaped the political and religious identity of the Saudi state while also enabling the significant worldwide expansion of Salafist Islam. Studies of the movement he inspired, however, have often be...
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 1 The Birth of the Hanbali Tradition 17 --2 Shedding New Light on the Life of Muhammad Ibn Abd Al-Wahhab 46 --3 Hanbali-Wahhabism in the Nineteenth Century: Grandeur and Decadence 70 --4 The Birth of a Kingdom and the Renaissance of a Tradition 94 --5 Routinization and Institutionalization of Hanbali-Wahhabism 119 --6 The Committee of Grand Ulama: An Organization in the Service of the Prince ... and the Population 146 --7 Raising the Veil on the Conditions of Access to the Religious Establishment 171 --8 Religious Authority in Practice: The Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice 203 --9 At the Crossroads: The Religious Establishment Put to the Test of the Saudi Politico-Religious Space 235 | |
| 520 | |a "Followers of Muhammad b. 'Abd al-Wahhab, often considered to be Islam's Martin Luther, shaped the political and religious identity of the Saudi state while also enabling the significant worldwide expansion of Salafist Islam. Studies of the movement he inspired, however, have often been limited by scholars' insufficient access to key sources within Saudi Arabia. Nabil Mouline was granted rare interviews and admittance to important Saudi archives in preparation for this groundbreaking book, the first in-depth study of the Wahhabi religious movement from its founding to the modern day. Gleaning information from both written and oral sources and employing a multidisciplinary approach that combines history, sociology, and Islamic studies, Mouline presents a new reading of this movement that transcends the usual resort to polemics"-- c Provided by publisher | ||
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