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Awakening Islam : the politics of religious dissent in contemporary Saudi Arabia / Stéphane Lacroix ; translated by George Holoch.
- Title
- Awakening Islam : the politics of religious dissent in contemporary Saudi Arabia / Stéphane Lacroix ; translated by George Holoch.
- Author
- Lacroix, Stéphane.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
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- Additional Authors
- Holoch, George
- Description
- 373 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Explores the political culture in Saudi Arabia, describing how the Middle Eastern country became a place of refuge for Islamist militants beginning in the 1950s, which led to a social movement that focused on political activism and local religious ideas, and discussing the effects of this social movement on Saudi society.
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- History
- Note
- Originally published as: Les islamistes saoudiens, une insurrection manquée. Presses universitaires de France, 2010.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Islamism in a fragmented society -- The development of the sahwa -- Resistance to sahwa ascendancy -- A sacrificed generation -- The logic of the insurrection -- Anatomy of a failure -- The Islamists after the insurrection -- Conclusion: the lessons of the insurrection.
- ISBN
- 9780674049642 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010040833
- OCLC
- 666573621
- SCSB-10953912
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library