LEADER 03951nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910816843803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-26525-4 010 $a0-674-06107-1 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674061071 035 $a(CKB)2550000000048075 035 $a(EBL)3300965 035 $a(OCoLC)923118348 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000564538 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11371417 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000564538 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10597054 035 $a(PQKB)10386292 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3300965 035 $a(DE-B1597)178238 035 $a(OCoLC)754841332 035 $a(OCoLC)840435874 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674061071 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3300965 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10492931 035 $a(PPN)201894653 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000048075 100 $a20100923d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAwakening Islam$b[electronic resource] $ethe politics of religious dissent in contemporary Saudi Arabia /$fSte?phane Lacroix ; translated by George Holoch 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cHarvard University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (384 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-04964-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIslamism 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. 330 $aAmidst the roil of war and instability across the Middle East, the West is still searching for ways to understand the Islamic world. Stéphane Lacroix has now given us a penetrating look at the political dynamics of Saudi Arabia, one of the most opaque of Muslim countries and the place that gave birth to Osama bin Laden. The result is a history that has never been told before. Lacroix shows how thousands of Islamist militants from Egypt, Syria, and other Middle Eastern countries, starting in the 1950's, escaped persecution and found refuge in Saudi Arabia, where they were integrated into the core of key state institutions and society. The transformative result was the Sahwa, or "Islamic Awakening," an indigenous social movement that blended political activism with local religious ideas. Awakening Islam offers a pioneering analysis of how the movement became an essential element of Saudi society, and why, in the late 1980's, it turned against the very state that had nurtured it. Though the "Sahwa Insurrection" failed, it has bequeathed the world two very different, and very determined, heirs: the Islamo-liberals, who seek an Islamic constitutional monarchy through peaceful activism, and the neo-jihadis, supporters of bin Laden's violent campaign. Awakening Islam is built upon seldom-seen documents in Arabic, numerous travels through the country, and interviews with an unprecedented number of Saudi Islamists across the ranks of today's movement. The result affords unique insight into a closed culture and its potent brand of Islam, which has been exported across the world and which remains dangerously misunderstood. 606 $aReligion and politics$zSaudi Arabia 606 $aIslamic fundamentalism$zSaudi Arabia 606 $aIslam and state$zSaudi Arabia 607 $aSaudi Arabia$xHistory$y1932- 615 0$aReligion and politics 615 0$aIslamic fundamentalism 615 0$aIslam and state 676 $a320.5/5709538 700 $aLacroix$b Ste?phane$01716531 701 $aHoloch$b George$01619322 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816843803321 996 $aAwakening Islam$94111911 997 $aUNINA