Islam in Saudi Arabia by David Commins
David Commins challenges the stereotype of Saudi Arabia as a country immune to change by highlighting the ways that urbanization, education, and consumerism have exerted pressure on the religious establishment.[Commins] has produced a succinct and insightful survey of puritanical Wahhabi Islam in Saudi ArabiaHe covers history, doctrinal issues, the symbiosis of the ruling family with the Wahhabi clergy, and everyday Islamic practice in the realms of education, moral standards, law, charity, and gender.
(Foreign Affairs)This book makes a valuable contribution to understanding the interplay among culture (religion), politics, and society in Saudi Arabia. Commins (history, Dickinson College) accounts for the rise of modern Wahhabi religious doctrine and its interplay with other religious and political currents in the Arabian Peninsula.
(Choice)There is a need for a book like Islam in Saudi Arabia. Unlike a good deal of recent academic and journalistic writing on Saudi Arabia that tends to treat the country in a kind of exceptionalist framework or as a so-called enigma, David Commins underscores that—just like any other country—there are transparent and standard means of analyzing aspects of Saudi society.
(Canadian Journal of History)David Commins is Professor of History at Dickinson College. He is the author of The Wahhabi Mission and Saudi Arabia, The Gulf States: A Modern History, and Islamic Reform: Politics and Social Change in Late Ottoman Syria. Malise Ruthven is the author of many books, including Fundamentalism: The Search for Meaning and Islam in the World.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801456916 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801456916 |
| Title | Islam in Saudi Arabia |
| Author | David Commins |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press |
| Year published | 2015-05-01 |
| Number of pages | 277 |
| Prizes | Winner of Foreign Affairs 2015 Best Book of the Year (Middle. |
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