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Making sense of Saudi Arabia is crucially important today. The
kingdom's western province contains the heart of Islam, and it is
the United States' closest Arab ally and the largest producer of
oil in the world. However, the country is undergoing rapid change:
its aged leadership is ceding power to a new generation, and its
society, dominated by young people, is restive. Saudi Arabia has
long remained closed to foreign scholars, with a select few
academics allowed into the kingdom over the past decade. This book
presents the fruits of their research as well as those of the most
prominent Saudi academics in the field. This volume focuses on
different sectors of Saudi society and examines how the changes of
the past few decades have affected each. It reflects new insights
and provides the most up-to-date research on the country's social,
cultural, economic and political dynamics.
This intellectual biography of Muhammad al-Shawkani, one of the founding fathers of modern Islamic reformism, is also a study of an important transitional period in Yemeni history which saw the shift from traditional Shi'ism to Sunni reformism. The transition propelled political, religious and social change. While Shawkani espoused a socio-religious order which echoed aspects of Western thinking, the book demonstrates that it was indigenous to Islamic thought. Shawkani's ideas remain vital to the intellectual debates happening in Islam today.
Making sense of Saudi Arabia is crucially important today. The
kingdom's western province contains the heart of Islam, and it is
the United States' closest Arab ally and the largest producer of
oil in the world. However, the country is undergoing rapid change:
its aged leadership is ceding power to a new generation, and its
society, dominated by young people, is restive. Saudi Arabia has
long remained closed to foreign scholars, with a select few
academics allowed into the kingdom over the past decade. This book
presents the fruits of their research as well as those of the most
prominent Saudi academics in the field. This volume focuses on
different sectors of Saudi society and examines how the changes of
the past few decades have affected each. It reflects new insights
and provides the most up-to-date research on the country's social,
cultural, economic and political dynamics.
This intellectual biography of Muhammad al-Shawkani, one of the founding fathers of modern Islamic reformism, is also a study of an important transitional period in Yemeni history which saw the shift from traditional Shi'ism to Sunni reformism. The transition propelled political, religious and social change. While Shawkani espoused a socio-religious order which echoed aspects of Western thinking, the book demonstrates that it was indigenous to Islamic thought. Shawkani's ideas remain vital to the intellectual debates happening in Islam today.
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