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Circuits of Faith - Migration, Education, and the Wahhabi Mission (Hardcover)
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Circuits of Faith - Migration, Education, and the Wahhabi Mission (Hardcover)
Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
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The Islamic University of Medina was established by the Saudi state
in 1961 to provide religious instruction primarily to foreign
students. Students would come to Medina for religious education and
were then expected to act as missionaries, promoting an
understanding of Islam in line with the core tenets of Wahhabism.
By the early 2000s, more than 11,000 young men from across the
globe had graduated from the Islamic University. Circuits of Faith
offers the first examination of the Islamic University and
considers the efforts undertaken by Saudi actors and institutions
to exert religious influence far beyond the kingdom's borders.
Michael Farquhar draws on Arabic sources, including biographical
materials, memoirs, syllabi, and back issues of the Islamic
University journal, as well as interviews with former staff and
students, to explore the institution's history and faculty, the
content and style of instruction, and the trajectories and
experiences of its students. Countering typical assumptions,
Farquhar argues that the project undertaken through the Islamic
University amounts to something more complex than just the one-way
"export" of Wahhabism. Through transnational networks of students
and faculty, this Saudi state-funded religious mission also relies
upon, and has in turn been influenced by, far-reaching circulations
of persons and ideas.
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