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Securitising Identity - The Case of the Saudi State (Paperback)
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Securitising Identity - The Case of the Saudi State (Paperback)
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Why has the relationship between the state and the Islamic
revivalist movement known commonly as 'Wahhabism' persisted under
Saudi rule since 1744? In Securitising Identity Ben Rich traces the
symbiosis between these two entities across three distinct periods
of Saudi rule over the past four centuries, showcasing the
consistent conditions, patterns of behaviour and political logics
that surround their interplay. Collectively, these reveal a
recurrent tendency in which the state paradoxically offers
protections to the preservation of revivalism while generating
threats against this same religious identity in order to ensure its
hold on power. Such a pattern, he argues, not only transcends all
discrete periods of Saudi rule, but also manifests regardless of
the conservative or progressive nature of a particular
administration. Understanding such a pattern not only helps to
explain why Saudi Arabia today remains a source of regional
sectarianism, but also how such an idiomatic ideology has endured
in the face of high modernity and why the state it is likely to
struggle in its ongoing quest to open itself further to a diverse
and pluralistic world.
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