The clerics of Islam religious authority and political power in Saudi Arabia 9780300206616, 9780300178906, 2014007139, 0300206615

The Clerics of Islam: Religious Authority and Political Power in Saudi Arabia 9780300206616

Followers of Muhammad b. ’Abd al-Wahhab, often considered to be Islam’s Martin Luther, shaped the political and religiou

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Graveyard of Clerics: Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia 9781503612471

The inside story of political protest in Saudi Arabia—on the ground, in the suburbs, and in the face of increasing state

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Awakening Islam: Religious Dissent in Contemporary Saudi Arabia 0674049640, 9780674049642

Amidst the roil of war and instability across the Middle East, the West is still searching for ways to understand the Is

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Saudi Arabia in the Oil Era (RLE Saudi Arabia) 9780367302047

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Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia: Islam, Christianity, and Politics Entwined 9781588269980

What is the significance of Islam's growing strength in Ethiopia? And what is the impetus for the Saudi financing o

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The Jakhanke Muslim Clerics: A Religious and Historical Study of Islam in Senegambia 0819174815, 9780819174819

This book attempts the first major study of the Jakhanke people. The Jakhanke have since the thirteenth century been a s

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The Shiʻis of Saudi Arabia 9780863569036, 086356903X

"The Shi'is of Saudi Arabia offers a comprehensive overview of the evolution of Shi'i opposition in the E

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A Society of Young Women: Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia 9780804791373

This book joins young Saudi women in their daily lives—in the workplace, on the female university campus, at the mall—to

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State, Society and Economy in Saudi Arabia (RLE Saudi Arabia) 9781138846753

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Female Religious Authority in Shi'i Islam: Past and Present 9781474426626

13 case studies of women exercising religious authority in Shiʿi Islam from the classical period to the present Islamic

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